matthew peters warne

matthew is a composer, installation artist, and doctoral candidate in the Multimedia and Electronic Music Experiments (MEME) program at Brown University where he uses custom digital musical instruments in the live performance of soundscape recordings. His dissertation creates auto-ethnographic musical works based on fieldwork in Luanda and Huambo, Angola that aim to understanding that country's situation as a post-war, resource-rich, developing nation in a globalizing world. His written work examines the impacts of using digital performance technologies in making studies of place. He holds an MS in Digital Media from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a BA from Grinnell College with majors in music and economics.

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warne@brown.edu angola fone: (+244) 928.404.290 us voicemail: (+1) 401.383.1447