Matt Hsu creates otherworldly music that celebrates difference and the liminal spaces between cultures. He has an uncanny ability to blend found objects, world instruments, DIY punk ethos, orchestral sounds and hip-hop collaborations. Hailed as "one of the freshest feeling projects in Australian music right now" by Happy Mag, Matt is a 2022 & 2020 Queensland Music Award winning Taiwan-Australian composer, orchestra director and anti-racism activist from Meanjin/Brisbane. His project Matt Hsu’s Obscure Orchestra is both his solo artist moniker and 22-piece orchestra underpinned by inclusivity, gender diversity and community-mindedness. Beginning as his solo multi-instrumental exhaust valve, Matt Hsu’s Obscure Orchestra has grown to encompass solo performance through to various numbers of musical collaborators up to a 22-piece alt-orchestra comprising of First Nations, BIPOC, disabled, non-binary and transgender artists.