Midi is the mind killer Alex White

In late 2019 I was lucky to have the opportunity to sit down and chat with Warren Burt at Brunetti’s in Carlton (Melbourne). Warren has made incredible contributions to electronic music, in both the US and Australia for several decades now as a performer, teacher, instrument designer and organiser.

Warren managed to cover a lot of territory (some of it in one breath!) including his experiences as a student and teacher at Albany, UC San Diego, Latrobe Uni, Clifton Hill Music Center and now Box Hill Institute, some of his ideas around electronic music composition, analog systems, improvisation, and instrument design, and association and encounters with a range of other well known electronic music pioneers including Serge Tcherepnin, Pauline Oliveros, Rich Gold, and Randy Cohen as well as some of Warren’s projects like Plastic Platypus and the Aardvarks 4 instrument.