BIO The work of Alaskan composer and sound artist, Matthew Burtner (www.burtner.net) explores ecoacoustics, instrumental disembodiment, and extended polyrhythmic and noise-based musical systems. His instrumental and computer music is performed widely and he tours regularly with the metasaxophone, an augmented computer instrument of his own creation. First prize winner of the Musica Nova International Electroacoustic Music Competition and winner of a 2008 Howard Foundation Fellowship in composition, he has also received honors and awards from competitions such as Bourges, Gaudeamus, Darmstadt, Prix d’Ete, Meet the Composer, ASCAP, Luigi Russolo, and the American Music Center. Among recordings for DACO (Germany), The WIRE (UK), MIT Press (US), Innova (US), Centaur (US), and Euridice (Norway), his music appears on two critically acclaimed solo CDs: "Portals of Distortion" and "Metasaxophone Colossus". Burtner is currently a professor of composition and computer music at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. |
