Founding Member, The Human League, Heaven 17 and The Illustrious Company (London)
A founding member of both The Human League and Heaven 17, Martyn is one of the leading figures in electronic music. As record producer and artist has featured on recordings totaling over 50 million sales worldwide during a 27 year career to date, working with Tina Turner, Terence Trent D’Arby, Chaka Khan, Erasure, Marc Almond, Mavis Staples and many more.
Martyn founded Illustrious Company with Vince Clarke in 2001 to exploit the creative and commercial possibilities of their unique ‘Heightened Reality’ three-dimensional sound technology and bespoke musical composition in collaboration with fine artists, the performing arts and corporate clients around the world who include: BP, Ogilvy, The British Council, The Science Museum,The Royal Ballet, Amnesty International, The V&A Museum, Mute Records, BBC TV, the Royal Observatory Greenwich, BAFTA , Museum Of London. Tate Britain, Red Bull Music Academy, City Of Westminster Council, and collaborations with the artists Cathy De Monchaux, Tim Head, Gary Stevens, David Bickerstaff and Philip Tsiaras.
Martyn produces and presents a series of events entitled ‘Future of Sound‘ in the UK and around the world and has created conic architectural works at the British Pavilion at the Venice Architectural Biennale in 2006 amongst many others.
He also lectures extensively on music production, technology, and creativity at universities and colleges across the world and he is Head of Sonic Experience and co-founder of the world-leading sound-branding agency – SonicID.
Martyn is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts, a Visiting Professor at C4DM at Queen Mary College, University of London; a Visiting Lecturer at the Royal College of Art and the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
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