Matthew Jamal is a New York–based interdisciplinary artist and composer working across sound, movement, and electroaccoustic manipulation. Their practice explores improvisation as a compositional system and embodied method. From the ages of 14-18, they busked in Washington D.C and New York developing a solo performance language rooted in Black American traditions, western classical music and live looping which continues to inform their site-responsive work.

Alongside their independent practice, Jamal has collaborated across music, dance, and film with artists including Madonna, Benjamin Clementine, Obongjayar, J'Nai Bridges, Jason Moran, and Jacob Jonas The Company. They have appeared at institutions and festivals such as the Newport Jazz Festival, the San Francisco International Film Festival, and the Gucci Film Festival, and their work has been featured in Vogue Ukraine, Vanity Fair, and Notion Magazine. Rejecting genre as a fixed construct, Jamal describes their work as queer. They hold a BM in Classical and Jazz Double Bass Performance from the Manhattan School of Music.