Kurt James Werner is a composer of electro-acoustic/acousmatic (&c.) music, author of digital signal processing code and compositional algorithms (see Grani+, boots&cats&&&, &c.), avid circuit-bender, and graduate student pursuing a Ph.D. in Computer-Based Music Theory and Acoustics at Stanford University's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA). His music references elements of algorithmic/generative composition, breakbeat, chiptunes, musique concrete, circuit-bending, and (granular and otherwise) synthesis, in juxtaposition and superimposition, directly and indirectly. He recently received a Bachelor of Science in General Engineering (with a secondary field in Acoustics) and a Bachelor of Music in Composition/Theory from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.