THE AUTHOR · THE ARTIST · THE CREATIVE DIRECTOR

MATTHEW
STEEL.

I make music, stories and worlds about the moment we stop accepting the version of ourselves we inherited—and begin authoring one of our own.

Matthew Steel, the embodied Author, artist and creative director

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIATHE EMBODIED AUTHOR · 2026

THE VOICE
IS MINE
NOW.
AUTHORARTISTCREATIVE DIRECTORWORLD BUILDER

FOLLOW THE SIGNAL

FIND 'ASTROSCALES'

01ORIGIN STORY

BUILT, NOT FOUND

THE PANEL SHOP
BECAME A PHILOSOPHY
DEPARTMENT.

Long before ASTROWORLD, there was a workshop in Western Sydney. Steel. Paint. Noise. Damage made visible—and the patient work of making something road ready again.

Matthew Steel is a Sydney-based author, independent music artist and creative director. His work draws from family history, queer identity, fatherhood, hospitality, education and more than two decades spent building experiences for other people.

In the Authoring Era, those threads become one practice: transforming lived experience into songs, narrative systems, visual worlds and spaces where others can recognise themselves.

“YOU DON'T THROW THE VEHICLE AWAY.
YOU WORK ON IT.”
02THE PRACTICE
A

THE
AUTHOR

Turns memory into language, language into structure, and personal truth into a door another person can enter.

MEMOIR · JOURNAL · LYRICS · MYTH
B

THE
ARTIST

Builds body-first electronic music where industrial rhythm, emotional honesty and queer performance meet.

VOICE · MUSIC · PERFORMANCE · MOVEMENT
C

THE CREATIVE
DIRECTOR

Designs the system around the work—visual identity, narrative architecture, campaigns, spaces and audience pathways.

WORLDS · SYSTEMS · EXPERIENCES · DIRECTION
03THE FRAMEWORK

FOUR PILLARS. ONE PRACTICE.

SONG.
STORY.
SPACE.
SELF.

Every project moves through the same four-part system. Not as separate products, but as different ways into the same human question: who gets to author the person you become?

01

SONG

The emotional signal

Music is where the idea first learns to move.

02

STORY

The meaning beneath it

Personal history becomes shared language.

03

SPACE

The world around it

Digital and physical environments turn listening into experience.

04

SELF

The author within it

Creation becomes a practice of choosing who you become.

04SELECTED WORK

THE AUTHORING ERA · NOW ACTIVE

THE WORK IS
THE EVIDENCE.

THE AUTHORING ERA

THE VOICE
IS MINE NOW.

This is not a finished biography. It is a live body of work—made in public, revised through feedback and always moving toward the next door.

ASTROWORLD · PARTNERSHIP OPPORTUNITYHELP
WANTED
THE WORLD EXISTS. NOW BUILD THE ENTERPRISE.

A LEGITIMATE INVITATION

BUSINESS PARTNER.
COMMERCIAL LEAD.
CO-AUTHOR OF
WHAT COMES NEXT.

I have spent years building ASTROWORLD.

Not as a campaign.
Not as a mood board.
Not as another artist website waiting to be noticed.

ASTROWORLD is a living creative universe built across SONG, STORY, SPACE and SELF—a connected body of music, narrative, digital experiences, live concepts, membership, fashion and intellectual property.

The world exists.
The work is real.
The foundations have been laid.

And I am ready to stand tall beside what I have built.

But I also know what comes next cannot—and should not—be built by me alone.

I am looking for a serious business partner who recognises the commercial potential of ASTROWORLD and has the experience, relationships and conviction to help take it to market.

Someone who can fund the next stage—or find the right funding.

Someone who can lead commercial strategy, partnerships, operations, revenue development and growth while I continue to author the work, create the experiences and stand at the front of the world we are building.

This is not an invitation to manage me from the sidelines.

It is an invitation to step inside, understand the architecture and help build the enterprise around the art.

The intended outcome is a genuine partnership: clearly defined, commercially structured and built for the long term.

You may come from entertainment, investment, events, technology, media, fashion, cultural development—or somewhere I have not yet considered. What matters is that you can see beyond a single release and recognise the value of an interconnected creative property with multiple ways to reach an audience and generate income.

ONE NON-NEGOTIABLE

YOU MUST HAVE
LISTENED TO THE MUSIC.

The songs are not promotional material attached to ASTROWORLD. They are its foundation. If you have not heard the work, you have not yet met the business—or me.

Listen before you enquire

Enter the world.
Listen to the music.
Understand what has already been built.

Then, if you believe you are the person who can help take ASTROWORLD from authored universe to sustainable enterprise, tell me why.

I am not looking for someone to rescue the idea.

I am looking for the person prepared to recognise it, back it and build beside me.

ASTROWORLD has an author.
Now it needs a business partner.

THINK THIS COULD BE YOU?

DISCUSS THE
PARTNERSHIP.

Introduce yourself, outline your experience and explain what you believe you could bring to ASTROWORLD.

  • Your professional background and relevant experience
  • Your approach to funding, commercialisation or business development
  • The role you believe you could play
  • What you listened to
  • What you heard in the work
  • Why you believe this partnership should begin

Submitting opens your email application with the enquiry addressed to astro@astroscalesofficial.com.