Matt Nolan is an independent custom cymbal and gong smith from Bath, England. matt started tinkering with cymbals, on more of a hobby basis, around 2006. In 2008, he dropped the "day job" and started making cymbals (and gongs, and little metal sculptural things that were also musical instruments) as his full-time occupation.

Nowadays Matt Nolan makes cymbals (drum kit and orchestral), gongs (tuned and indefinite pitch), tam-tams, sculptural gongs, triangles, tubular bells and bell plates.

Sonically, things tend to be complex, usually dark, often quite dry.

Matt Nolan is using a wide range of different Bronze alloys - B5, B7, B8, B10, B12, B15 and B20. Most frequently B8 and B15. He occasionally uses Nickel-Silver, more usually for gongs, but sometimes for cymbals too. Matt also uses Stainless Steel and, less frequently, Titanium for more avant-garde / off-the-wall cymbals and gongs. He uses an Aluminium Bronze alloy and Cupro-Nickel for his hand-hammered orchestral triangles.

Matt Nolan has created custom works for Massive Attack, Björk and the Boston Symphony Orchestra among others

Matt has played drums since he was 12 or 13. Currently, he play sregularly in what could loosely be described as a boogie-woogie piano trio called Fungus Licks.