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Matt Sargent is a musician based in Buffalo, NY.  His music grows out of an appreciation of natural resonances, acoustic spaces, field recording, and outdoor listening.  A Chesapeake Bay native, his interests are often focused on the movement of bodies of water, tides, and possible musical analogues to these natural processes.

His music has recently been heard in performances and installations at the Wulf (Los Angeles, CA), the Machine Project (Los Angeles, CA), Hemphill Fine Arts (Washington D.C.), Elastic Arts Foundation (Chicago, IL), Norwegian Academy of Music, June in Buffalo, SEAMUS, and Yale University Haskins Laboratory, along with residencies at the Goldwell Open Air Museum (Rhyolite, NV), Atlantic Center for the Arts, and University of Nevada Las Vegas.

Matt holds a Presidential Fellowship at SUNY Buffalo, where he is working on a PhD in Music Composition.  He is a graduate of the Hartt School of Music and St. Mary's College of Maryland.  His principal composition teachers include David Felder, Cort Lippe, Robert Carl, Ingram Marshall, Ken Steen, and David Froom.