A Sonic Journey Through a Recipe: Matthew Herbert

PamBrunton is a chef, author, and food campaigner. Since 2025 she’s been co-owner of multi-award-winning Inver restaurant on Scotland’s wild west coast; sometime ‘Best Restaurant in Scotland’, ‘Chef of the Year’, and ‘Most Influential Woman in Hospitality’. Inver is the only restaurant in Scotland to hold a Green Michelin Star for the restaurant’s commitment to sustainability, alongside its world-class food. Pam has worked with food campaign groups Sustain and the Soil Association, running projects to promote better food and farming. In September 2024 her first book, Between Two Waters – Heritage, Landscape and the modern cook, was published by Canongate. Between Two Waters was among the Financial Times’ list of “Best Books of 2024” and has been longlisted for the Highland Book Prize.

MatthewHerbert is an award-winning composer, artist, producer and writer whose range of innovative works extends from more than 30 albums (including the much-celebrated Bodily Functions) to scores for Oscar-winning films (A Fantastic Woman). He has performed solo, as a DJ and with various musicians including his own 21 piece big band and 100 piece choir all round the world from the Sydney Opera House, to the Hollywood Bowl and created installations, plays and opera. He has remixed iconic artists such as Quincy Jones, Ennio Morricone and Mahler and been a long time collaborator of Bjork’s. He is best known for working with sound, turning ordinary or so-called found sound into electronic music. His most celebrated work ONE PIG followed the life of a pig from birth to plate and beyond. His debut book The Music published by Unbound in 2018 and he is the creative director of the New BBC Radiophonic Workshop.

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