Matthew Wang

ComposerSongwriterMusic Producer

Mar 1

Written By Arbel Bedak

Featured Credits

Well Versed

Reno 911!: It's A Wonderful Heist

Reno 911!: The Hunt For QAnon

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Credits

Well Versed (2023)
Episodes 7: “On You And Me”
Episode 10: “Everybody’s Special”
Nickelodeon | Series
Composer/Producer, Original Songs
Rick and Morty (2023)
Adult Swim | Series
EPs Dan Harmon, Justin Roiland, Scott Marder
Composer, additional music
Yellowjackets (2021-2023)
Showtime | Series
EPs Jonathan Lisco, Ashley Lyle, Bart Nickerson
Composer, additional music
Inside Job (2022)
Netflix | Series
EP Shion Takeuchi
Composer, additional music
Young Rock (2022)
NBC | Series
EP Nahnatchka Kahn
Composer, additional music
Ginny & Georgia (2021)
Netflix | Series
EP Sarah Lampert
Composer, additional music
New Amsterdam (2018-2021)
NBC | Series
EPs Peter Horton, David Schulner
Composer, additional music
RWBY (2021)
Rooster Teeth Productions | Series
EPs Miles Luna, Kerry Shawcross, Monty Oum
RENO 911 (2021)
Viacom | Series
EPs Kerri Kenney, Robert Ben Garant,
Thomas Lennon
Composer, additional music
Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist (2020) NBC | Series
EPs David Blackman, Paul Feig, Austin Winsberg
Composer, additional music
Glow (2019-2020)
Netflix | Series
EPs Carly Mensch, Liz Flahive, Sascha Rothchild, Nick Jones
Composer, additional music
Human Discoveries (2019)
Facebook Watch | Animated Series
EPs Kirk J. Rudell, Anna Kendrick, Zac Efron, Corey Campodonico
Composer, additional music
Kipo & The Age Of Wonderbeasts (2019)
Dreamworks Animation / Netflix | Animated Series
EPs Radford Sechrist, Bill Wolkoff
Composer, additional music
Mrs. Fletcher (2019)
HBO | Series
EPs Jen Richards, Tom Perrotta
Composer, additional music
Shrill (2019-2021)
Hulu | Series
EPs Lorne Michaels, Andrew Singer, Aidy Bryant, Lindy West Ali Rushfield
Composer, additional music
Brainchild (2018)
Netflix | Animated Series
EPs Mimi Valdes, Pharrell Williams, Anthony Maranville, Zach Selwyn
Composer, additional music
Reno 911!: It’s A Wonderful Heist (2022)
Comedy Central | Feature
Dir. Christian Hoffman
Co-composer
The Red Tide Massacre (2022)
Feature
Dir. John A. Russo, Gavin Peretti
*Premiere, 2022 Burbank International Film Festival
The Invitation (2022)
Sony Pictures | Feature
Dir. Jessica M. Thompson
Composer, additional music
Reno 911!: The Hunt for QAnon (2021)
Paramount Pictures | Feature
Dir. Robert Ben Garant
Co-composer
Head Noise (2021)
Animated Short
Dir. Alejandro Alvarez, Rafael Jimenez Mesa
*Winner, Best Song For A Short Film, 2021 HMMA
*Premiere, 2021 HollyShorts FIlm Festival
Chosen (2021)
Feature
Dir. Joseph Juhn
Fraud (2021)
Short
Dir. Zen Pace
*Official Selection, OUTFEST Los Angeles Film Festival
Drops In The Ocean (2020)
Documentary Feature
Dir. Robert M. Chang
Centigrade (2020)
IFC Films | Feature
Dir. Brendan Walsh
Jeronimo (2019)
KBS | Feature
Dir. Joseph Juhn
Dirty Blonde (2018)
Short
Dir. Razieme Iborra
Magnificent Jerk (2023)
Apple Podcasts, Pineapple Street Studios

Bio

Constantly tinkering with new methods of how to replicate human emotion through manipulated sound, Matthew Wang (he/him) is an award-winning film and television composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist based in New York and Los Angeles. He creates inventive scores and soundscapes that pull from his background in pop songwriting and production—which focuses on building entire sonic worlds out of pithy narratives—as well as his technical expertise in electronic sound design and programming.

With his versatile skills that allow him to compose for various genres and audiences, Wang has written music for a vast range of different projects—from the Pharrell Williams-executive produced Netflix kids program Brainchild (2018), to Shaquille O’Neal’s basketball animated short HeadNoise (2021), for which he was awarded a Hollywood Music In Media Award in the category Best Song for Short Film. His extensive television composing credits include NBC’s The Young Rock (2022) and New Amsterdam (2018-2022), Showtime’s Yellowjackets (2021-2022), Hulu’s Shrill (2019-2021), Netflix’s Ginny and Georgia (2021) and Glow (2019), HBO’s Mrs. Fletcher (2019). He found his first feature film in IFC Midnight’s thriller Centigrade (2020), which he co-composed alongside Trey Toy, and went on to co-compose the television films RENO! 911: It's a Wonderful Heist (2022) and RENO! 911: The Hunt for QANON (2021) with Craig Wedren.

Beside narrative work, Wang has worked closely with documentarian Joseph Juhn on his set of acclaimed films, Jeronimo (2019), which sheds light on the little known story of the Korean diaspora in Cuba, and Chosen (2022), which followed five Korean Americans of different backgrounds and political views in their respective 2020 runs for Congressional office. “I’m inspired by shows and films that challenge the audience to think differently about the world,” Wang says.

Regardless of format or genre, Wang’s creative process begins by searching for creative, sometimes counterintuitive solutions so that instruments can emulate the nuanced experiences of the characters on screen, whether its playing a bass up high on the fret so it sounds like it’s “crying” or Auto-Tuning the life out of a cello to portray a protagonist's quest for perfection. He calls this “method composing,” which is “addressing the story through sound first, before even thinking about the harmony or structure of the song itself,” he explains.

This sensitivity toward sound’s emotive nature is also due to Wang’s attention to ambient noise, and its inherent ability to impart the stories of one's surroundings. Born and raised in New York City, he finds inspiration from the countless characters that can be found in the sounds that can be captured and found within the bustling urban environment, and has built up a portfolio of stock sounds that are based on these field recordings.

Having played violin and guitar in his youth, Wang spent his teenage years playing early gigs around Manhattan in a rock band, which led him to discover his fondness for Ableton and electronic music processes. While later attending the pop production-focused Clive Davis Institute of Music at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, he began writing music for advertisements. The challenge of creating “earworms, which have to be even more concise than in pop music,” appealed to him.

Wang is currently at work on his debut solo album, Ambia, which combines his interest in music psychology and video game music for an unfolding, potentially limitless audio experience that seamlessly evolves as part of the listener’s daily life.