Josh Mattison

Hello! My name is Josh Mattison and I’m an award winning audio producer, writer, editor, sound designer and composer.

CURRENTLY: 

I am creator, producer, writer, editor, and sound designer of a documentary about the history of the end of the world and the art we make about it called Doomsday Daydreams. 

I am also the creator, producer, writer, editor, and sound designer of the world's only audio zine - Low Orbit.

Low Orbit is an audio zine featuring voices, stories and sounds from any creative community. The show features a wide variety of documentary stories, memoir, fiction and non-fiction pieces, poetry, music, comedy, even the odd avant-garde soundscape from time to time. Denver's Westword magazine called it the Best Podcast in Denver in 2017 and wrote about a mini-series Blackout: Time Passes as well.

OTHER WORK: 

The Order of Death is a documentary podcast about the 1984 murder of Denver area talk radio host Alan Berg by a white supremacist group known as The Order. The documentary was released in fall of 2019 and went on the win the Best Crime Podcast award in Westword magazine in 2020.
I’ve created work for several museums both here in Denver and in New York City.

In 2018 I was the associate producer on the podcast documentary A Daughter’s Voice for the Clyfford Still Museum. This project was a companion to the exhibit A Daughter’s Eye. It won a Bronze Muse award from the American Association of Museums.

I interviewed, edited and sound designed a series of pieces for the MoMA in New York. This work is available to hear in their app or on their website. It’s meant to be heard while you look at the corresponding piece in the museum.

I recently made some similar pieces for MCA Denver for their exhibits Dyani Whitehawk: Speaking to Relatives and Eamon Ore-Giron: Competing With Lightning.

I've done tape syncs for Campside Media, The BBC, Lemonada Media and others.

ABOUT ME: Both personally and professionally, I’m interested in creating sound rich and artistically presented stories. I like to explore lots of different things, from personal narratives to philosophical ideas to historical stories. I’m most interested in ideas that go beyond mainstream narratives and dig under the surface.