Matheus Souza (b. 1997, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is a composer, improviser, and electronic musician based in Lyon, France.

 

Working across electroacoustic composition, mixed music, and improvisation, his practice focuses on acousmatic music, live electronics, and on the intersection of both practices - interconnecting processes of composition and performance. His work often unfolds through collaborations with visual artists, dancers, and musicians from diverse fields, including jazz, traditional, experimental, classical, and electronic music.

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Rooted in post-human and post-digital aesthetics, his music emerges from the physical negotiation between human gesture and analogue and digital systems. Glitches, electric roars, and mechanical sonorities shaped into physical gestures form living flows that guide the audience through contrasting yet coherent sonic environments built through recursive processes, inspired by his Brazilian Indigenous roots.​

 

Awarded third prize at the 2020 International Composition Competition “Nuestra América,” he holds a Master’s degree in Contemporary Performance and Composition (CoPeCo) from CNSMD de Lyon. He is currently pursuing a DNSPM in Contemporary Composition at the same institution, under the supervision of François Roux.