about matt morton

matt morton is a composer, songwriter, engineer/producer, and multi-instrumentalist from columbus, ohio.

he is the founder and principal composer for studio 651 ltd., a music production and publishing company that supplies music for film, tv, commercials, games, and other new media.

he was a founding member and lead guitarist / vocalist / songwriter for the shantee, an original rock band with 3 studio cds, a live dvd, and national radio airplay. during their nine year run, the shantee toured all over the country and played with bands including george clinton and parliament funkadelic, blues traveler, bela fleck and the flecktones, government mule, the neville brothers, david grisman, dickey betts of the allman brothers, widespread panic, and o.a.r.

after the shantee, matt played for and helped found seen tru, a reggae band that blurs the lines between roots reggae, dub, funk, and experimental rock and jazz. he is currently focusing solely on composing and producing music, but he makes it out of the studio every once in a while to sit in with a variety of bands.

matt's principal instruments are the guitar and bass, which he began playing in 1986 and started teaching in 2003. he also plays several other instruments including drums, keyboards, mandolin, cuatro, charango, ukulele and the ztar - a guitar midi controller that allows him to play and compose with any virtual instrument.