Matthew Dear

Matthew Dear is a longtime DJ, musician, and a founding artist of Ghostly International and Spectral Sound. He is also an educator, teaching at The University of Michigan. Dear is renowned for writing, producing, and mixing all of his work, and has had remixes commissioned by notable artists including The XX, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Spoon, Hot Chip, The Postal Service, and Chemical Brothers. Outside of music, he enjoys creative expression through building and working with his hands, demonstrated by his projects such as a treehouse with a zipline and a goat shed.