Critically acclaimed, award-winning composer Matthew Reid has an impressive background. For ten years he created and performed his eclectic scores live for The Second City-Toronto, resulting in many award-winning reviews. Matthew's instrumental songs have been performed by top orchestras in North America to standing ovations. Matthew composes and creates his music for film, television, games, web series, art galleries, museum exhibits, and pyrotechnic events.
A classic, 50's Hollywood thriller soundtrack reminiscent of an Alfred Hitchcock score. Soaring, angular violins punctuated by a dissonant chord of brass and timpani. A tense, quiet middle section as characters question their sanity. Instrumental, Dangerous, Edgy Music
Three flutes, a violin a piano a tympani and very, very creepy. Similar in feel to the quiet orchestral cues in The Shining. Ghostly counterpoint between flutes and piano lead to an anguished violin solo and the final chords of quiet doom. Good for horror, experimental drama, crime drama/docs, Instrumental, Dangerous, Mysterious Music
Sparse, quiet, spooky and expressionistic. Mimics tears rolling down your cheek. Beautiful but occasionally jarring. Inner demons, creepy and unpleasant surroundings, hopelessness or alienation. Spotify critical pick for new classical, 2019, Instrumental, Horror, Horror Psychological
A sparse & tense underscore. Ticking percussion under percolating synths an echoing thump and a distorted, rubbery synth bass. Evocative of 80s thrillers/science fiction. Great underscores for genre pieces, parodies or even erotica, Instrumental, Dangerous, Dark Music
Beginning with Middle Eastern sounding percussion and winds, building to a soft choral entrance and finally pushing towards a huge choral and orchestral climax. Conan the Barbarian gets seduced! Mysterious and sexy. Good for fantasy/adventure/historical/gaming/Middle Eastern settings. Mixed Vocals, Dangerous, Dark Music
A tense landscape before all hell breaks loose. A minimal track of pulsing basses & percussion and a sparse melody of strings, alto flute & electronics. Sparse and tense without building. John Carpenter meets Johan Johansson. Instrumental, Dangerous, Apprehensive Music
Creepy, creaking, tapping, hissing and harsh snaps of acoustic string quartets paired with clock like tapping on cellos, found object percussion and ghostly choirs. Inspired by the avant garde textures of late 60s experimental music and Johann Johannsson's score for Aronofsky's Mother! Instrumental, Dangerous, Edgy Music
Nervous, insistent strings with an angular piano melody, menacing horns and anxious percussion. Eye widening, soaring strings and horns follow, contrasting with a second theme, Instrumental, Dangerous, Dark Music
A magical, mystical, mysterious and slightly spooky piece for orchestra and electronics. Plucking basses and trilling winds support a baroque sounding rhythmic melody played by celeste and harpsichord, Instrumental, Dangerous, Mysterious Dark Magical
A quirky and fun piano ragtime piece in the minor key with a major key middle section. Authentically melodic with eccentric arpeggios. Instrumental, Dangerous, Apprehensive Music
A quirky and fun piano ragtime piece in the minor key with early twentieth century Middle Eastern or Indian flavour. Great for historical pieces or silent era films/parodies. Instrumental, Dangerous, Apprehensive Music
A tense electro-acoustic hybrid underscore with a slight build good for adding an edge to thriller or suspense media without going too big. Amplified strings, bass clarinet, alto flute, piano & contrabassoon. Instrumental, Dangerous, Apprehensive Music
Starting sparse & tense with male chorus, brass and low, dark woodwinds and growing to huge & intense with swooping strings & massive percussion. Amplifying acoustic, orchestral instruments adds additional edge. Instrumental, Dangerous, Dramatic Chase
A tense electro-acoustic hybrid underscore with a slight build good for adding an edge to thriller or suspense media without going too big. Amplified strings, bass clarinet, alto flute, piano & contrabassoon. Instrumental, Dangerous, Edgy Music
Pizzicato basses play a spooky ostinato over a ghostly choir, chirping violin harmonics and a suffocated, percussive beat. Sometimes punctuated by a viola's stinging tremolo or a single boy's haunted voice. Very creepy, chilling background music for any scene requiring static, sustained tension. Instrumental, Dangerous, Edgy Music
Hushed, mechanical percussion, slowly glossing strings, quietly squealing water phone over an eerie melody by cellos and violas. Piano quietly imitates the lower strings. Inspired by music from American Horror Story by James S Levine, this piece works well as background to any tense, scary media. Instrumental, Dangerous, Edgy Music
Hushed, mechanical percussion, slowly glossing strings, quietly squealing water phone over an eerie melody by cellos and violas. Piano quietly imitates the lower strings. Inspired by music from American Horror Story by James S Levine, this piece works well as background to any tense, scary media. Instrumental, Dangerous, Edgy Music
Ghostly, slightly out of tune strings play a slow, eerie melody over a suffocated, rhythmic thud sometimes punctuated by a very low piano and very high celeste. Distant clay pots echo bumps in the night. Very creepy, chilling background music for any scene requiring static, sustained tension. Instrumental, Dangerous, Edgy Music
Hushed, mechanical percussion, slowly glossing strings, quietly squealing water phone over an eerie melody by cellos and violas. Piano quietly imitates the lower strings. Inspired by music from American Horror Story by James S Levine, this piece works well as background to any tense, scary media. Instrumental, Dangerous, Edgy Music
Hushed, mechanical percussion, slowly glossing strings, quietly squealing water phone over an eerie melody by cellos and violas. Piano quietly imitates the lower strings. Inspired by music from American Horror Story by James S Levine, this piece works well as background to any tense, scary media. Instrumental, Dangerous, Edgy Music
An ominous, pulsating orchestral/electronic hybrid. Gamelan like marimba and piano percolates over a quiet, deep bass thud and chaotic glitches. Menacing basses and cellos drone under a swelling string and wood section. Ideal for modern thrillers, sci-fi and documentaries. Instrumental, Dangerous, Edgy Music
An uncomfortable piece of modern chamber music for flute, bassoon, piano, cello & bass. Eerie melodies twist over sinister bass notes by the piano as the bass strings tremble and the high piano emulates the main melody in ghostly emulation. Instrumental, Dangerous, Mysterious Dark Magical
A creepy, pulsating, slowly evolving electronic drone piece suitable as an underscore for psychological thrillers, horror or sic-fi media. Ambient and disturbing. Instrumental, Dangerous, Dangerous Droning
A creepy, pulsating, slowly evolving electronic drone piece suitable as an underscore for psychological thrillers, horror or sci-fi media. Ambient and disturbing. Instrumental, Dangerous, Dangerous Droning
A disturbed and terrifying piece of psychological horror. Creepy, irrational chords scrape on high strings; Ghostly chirps of violin harmonics; unpredictable cellos and basses, loudly thunking; haunted waterphones making your characters wonder why on earth they ever went into the attic. Instrumental, Dangerous, Dark Music
A trippy, hallucinagenic, swirling tapestry of music consisting of a warped female voice, cello with Indian affectations, percussion, synths against the same tune occasionally played backwards. Great for fantasy, psychological thrillers, horror, drug trips and out of control moments. Female Vocals, Dangerous, Psychedelic
Piece for string quartet with a late nineteenth century feel. Driven by a serious, no-nonsense yet catchy melody. Great for scenes depicting Eastern European Royalty or snobby people with no sense of humor - Good theme music for mysteries with a classy, historical setting, documentaries, true crime, Instrumental, Dangerous, Dark Music
You'd better run because something awful (monster, shark, alien, psycho) has just decided that you're it's next victim. A quick intense clip in 7/8 meter with big stings on either end. Jaws meets Psycho. Parts can be chopped up and looped for games/underscores. Strings, brass, log and spring dru, Instrumental, Dangerous, Dangerous Music
Welcome to Hell and then Heaven and then Hell again. Opening with driving, pulsating dissonant chords leading to apocalyptic contrapuntal melodies of of the brass section giving away to a brief viewing of eternal bliss and concluding with triumphal terror. Giant monster scene, anyone? Instrumental, Dangerous, Dangerous Music
9 old time suspense stingers. Some are slightly tongue in cheek, some weird an eerie. Great for retro 50's, 60's, 70's movie/TV horror/suspense/sci-fi parodies or replications. Put 'em all together and you have what sounds like an Anton Webern composition or Captain Kirk raising his eyebrows... Instrumental, Dangerous, Dangerous Music
