deadmen has composed music for This American Life, NPR & CBC Radio, scored commercials for brands like Apple, Google, Tide, Vogue, Adidas, as well as scoring films like eOne’s Lovesick starring Jessica Paré & Jay Baruchel, and Matt Rankin’s Tabula Rasa features Grimes.
In addition to their commercial / radio / film work, deadmen (Matt Peters and Matt Schellenberg) have collectively been nominated for four Juno awards, and have won several Western Canadian Music Awards including most recently, Producer of the Year (2021). The deadmen-produced Begonia album, Powder Blue, was short-listed for the Polaris Music Prize (2024). The two Matts are currently holed up in their Los Angeles studio debating the virtues of a non-quantized electronic-drum performance.
Highlights Below:
Radio
This American Life:
This American Life is hosted by Ira Glass and is an Internationally Syndicated show produced by WBEZ Chicago. The show asked us to compose music to help underscore their stories.
CBC Just Asking
Just Asking is hosted by Saroja Coelho and Nationally broadcast throughout Canada every week. The show asked us to compose all of their Theme music and Stings.
CBC Radio Up to Speed:
Up To Speed is hosted by Faith Fundal and locally broadcast out of Winnipeg, Manitoba. The show asked us to compose new music for a rebranding of their sonic identity.
CBC Now or Never:
Now or Never is a weekly national broadcast on CBC. The show asked us to create their theme music as well as some instrumentals to accompany a variety of emotions for the different stories they feature.
CBC Information Radio:
Information Radio is hosted by Marcy Markusa and locally broadcast out of Winnipeg, Manitoba. New theme and 10 Stings composed for their show in Spring 2019.
See This CBC News article about the theme.
Sonic Branding
Commercials
Apple
Tide
Adidas / Teen Vogue
London Drugs
Manitoba Association of Dentists
City of Winnipeg
Commercial Tracks
Action / Car Comercial
Playful / Soul
Introspective / Orchestral
Hip Hop
Film Scoring
Feature / Shorts:
Lovesick - Lovesick is a film starring Jessica Paré of Mad Men and Jay Baruchel of This is the End. We scored this film for eOne, directed by Tyson Caron. A more in-depth look at our work on this film is available here, including the full soundtrack featuring John K. Samson of The Weakerthans.
Music video for the title theme composed for the film
Original Sound Track
The 13 song soundtrack was released on vinyl and distributed worldwide via streaming. This track from the soundtrack went on to be nominated for a Canadian Screen Award (like the Canadian Oscars) for Best Orginal Song. The Toronto Star stated, “it’s the original score and songs full of wit and wisdom by Matt Schellenberg that give the film a satisfying cohesion."
Lovesick for this soundtrack: Winnipeg film score nominated for award
Royal Canoe's Matt Schellenberg Teams Up with John K. Samson on 'Lovesick' Soundtrack
Tabula Rasa - Tabula Rasa is a short film that premiered at Sundance Film Festival, directed by Matthew Rankin (The 20th Century) that we scored with our friend Alek Rzeszowski. It features a song we wrote for Grimes.
Negativipeg - is cult-classic documentary featuring the legendary Burton Cummings bottling incident in Winnipeg’s North End that we scored. It is directed by Matthew Rankin and premiered at TIFF.
Platypus - Platypus is a short film we scored for BRAVO Television directed by Trevor Kristjanson that explores a dark surreal world where human taxidermy is considered normal.
Documentary
Know I’m Here - Know I’m Here is a documentary we scored for MTS Stories from Home directed by Handcraft Creative
Writing on the Wall - A documentary short we scored about the ghost signs in the exchange district in Winnipeg, Manitoba for ‘MTS Stories from Home’.
Tennis Story - Tennis Story is a documentary we scored for BRAVO Television directed by Tyson Caron
Television
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Sex Lives of College Girls
Ian Sweet’s ‘Sword’ which we produced was featured in Season One Episode One.
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Woke
‘Ashes Ashes’ featuring Nnamdi Ogbonnaya, a song we wrote and produced is featured in Season One Episode Three
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The L Word: Generation Q
‘Love It’ by Ashleigh Ball, a song we co-wrote and produced was featured in Season 2 Episode 5
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The Lake
“Fussin” which we co-wrote and produced is featured in it’s entirety in Season One Episode 8