Matthew Lovett is an improvising musician based at the University of Wales, Newport. After training with Keith Tippett, he worked for a number of years as an improviser and composer performing at the Sonic Arts Network Expo, the Venn Festival as well as touring with a number of musical projects in the UK, Ireland and America. Having studied critical theory and philosophy under Terence Hawkes and Catherine Belsey, he has subsequently combined his interests in improvised music with a rigorous analytical approach, publishing a poststructuralist critique of improvised music practice in the Journal of the Dutch-Flemish Society for Music Theory in 2006.

Current research interests centre on the relationship between improvisation and consciousness, exploring embodied cognition and distributed thought in the process of sonic performance and spontaneous composition, and examines the function of musical instruments as cybernetic extension to the human body and as tools of perception.

Recent work includes Music In A Room premiered in 2007 at the conference Improvisation Continuums: theorising practice across disciplines, convened by the University of Glamorgan. In 2008, the ImproBeat project, in collaboration with improvising musicians Javier Carmona and Kamil Korolczuk, re-contextualised improvised music within a Techno aesthetic for nightclub performance.

Recorded work includes:
Matthew Lovett and Javier Carmona, No. 6 featured on Brave New Wales, Fourier Transform, 2008
Matthew Lovett and Deri Roberts, Centre Forward, 2007
Full Circle, Explorations, Red Eye, 2006