Dr. Matthew Burtner (born 1970, Naknek, Alaska) is a contemporary American composer. Taking from his own website, Matthew Burtner "explores environmental systems (ecoacoustics), technological embodiment, 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."[1] His most recent work at the University of Virginia includes MICE, the mobile interactive computer ensemble.