MS9 Saxophone Ensemble performs Portals of Distortion and Endprint for nine-tenor saxophones at the Red Room in Baltimore.
10-year Metasaxophone Retrospective Concert
featuring Gary Louie, Brian Sacawa, Sheri Oyan, Paul Tucker, Sean Fredenburg, Rose Hammer Burt, Cory R. Kasprzyk,Michael Straus, Steve Temme, Zach Herchen, Matthew Burtner
August 23, 2008
21st Century Music writes: "Giant blocks of sound that seem impervious to destruction".
Hurd Audio review writes:" In an evening long on impressive saxophone timbres it was the wall of tenors - without electronic enhancement - that held these ears most completely. The fluctuations in texture coordinated by hand gestures from Burtner in the back of the room rippled with a deliberate sense of sound design in the service of compositional form."

Alaskan recording trip: Chugach, Anchorage, Denali, Fairbanks, Nuiqsit, Deadhorse, Barter Island.
Research for a new ecoacoustic opera with Scott Deal for performance in 2010.

(dis) Locations on tour with "What are you looking at?" multimedia series
Michael Straus performs in New York, NY; Ypsilanti, MI; Baltimore, MD; Ottawa, Ontario; Toronto, Ontario; Dartmouth, MA; Oberlin, OH; Irvine, CA; Houston, TX; San Francisco, CA;
(dis)Locations for saxophones, computer and video. Hurd Audio Review writes: "Saxophone parts found within a natural environment were lovingly re-assembled into the instrument of the evening. A complicated, yet sensuous, combination of body, key pads, rods and mouthpiece with only the reflection upon the surface of the instrument itself to reveal a human form distorted along its winding, curved form."

EMF Festival , New York, NY
Broken Drum, Fragments From Cold, Kuik (aria), That which is bodiless is reflected in bodies, SXrAtch
Jaunelle Celaire (voice), Minna Chung (cello), Morris Palter (percussion), Matthew Burtner (metasax)
Flea Theater, New York, NY
May 22, 2008

Fragments from Cold at Sonic Residues Festival, Stonybrook, NY
Madeleine Shapiro performs at the Electronic Music Foundation's Ear to the Earth festival in Manhattan.
May 12, 2008

Miami New Music Festival, Miami, FL
Fragments from Cold for cello, snow and electroacoustics
Miami Botanical Gardens in Coconut Grove
Madeleine Shapiro, cello
April 10, 2008

(dis)Embodied Touch: a performance series on music, theatre and healing performs "Light Catchers", Charlottesville, VA
Presence Theatre, Cecilia Venzon, Matthew Burtner
December 8, 2007 and April 2, 2008
Light Catchers for forum theatre and sound art including a ball of light poured into speakers to create sound

Matthew Burtner and friends featuring Michael Straus, Morris Palter, Haleh Abghari and Ted Coffey.
Kuik, Prismic Generations, (dis)Locations, MindCam, That which is bodiless is reflected in bodies, Sxueak
Michael Straus, saxophone; Morris Palter, percussion; Haleh Abghari, voice
MonkeyTown, New York, NY
Saturday, March, 9, 2008

Fear No Music performs Mists for stones and noise and Fragments from Cold for cello, snow and electroacoustics, Portland, OR
Fear No Music Ensemble.
November 8, 2007 and March 7, 2008
Northwest Reverb writes: "The end of the piece faded away like drifting snow."
The Oregonian writes: " the bow slowly schussing back and forth across the strings on a powdery bed of electronic white noise."

(dis) Locations at TechnoSonics Festival, focus on "place", Live Arts, Charlottesville, VA
Michael Strauss and Matthew Burtner perform.
November 9, 2007

Fragments from Cold at Ear to the Earth Festival, New York, NY
Madeleine Shapiro performs at the Electronic Music Foundation's Ear to the Earth festival in Manhattan.
October 16, 2007

Kuik, (dis)Locations and Prismic Generations at The Stone , New York, NY
with Morris Palter, Haleh Abghari, Michael Strauss and ThinkThank Media
October 11, 2007, sets at 8pm
on the corner of avenue C and 2nd street, Manhatta

"Thanks Brain" snowboard video release party at Evo in Seattle, WA
Metasax&DRUMthings with ThinkThank Media
122 NW 36th St, Seattle, 98107 September 15, 2007, 8pm
Future Snowboarder writes: "Metasax&DRUMthings performed some amazing music for the premiere. Armed with a saxophone, several computers, and a drummer Metasax&DRUMthings threw down some amazing tracks that are best described as electronic jazz chaos."

SXAn Interactive Ecology premiers at Festival of the Photograph, Charlottesville, VA
In collaboration with the TOOLPATH Architecture firm (Anselmo Canfora and Dean Abernathy) and sponsored by Apple Computer and Canon, Burtner's installation constructs a communal sonic narrative from disparate images contributed by the public over 10 days.

Snowprints featured at SoundOn Festival in La Jolla
produced by San Diego New Music, the Athaenaem and Ensemble Noise
Chris Adler, Lisa Cella and Frank Cox performed Burtner's classic ecoacoustic piece, Snowprints, on a program including music by Chris Burns, Orlando Garcia, Sidney Fells and others.
San Diego Arts writes: "Forget Debussy and Monet. Burtner’s Snowprints achieves impressionism though different means. Conceived for flute, cello, piano and electronics, the piece literally and figuratively incorporates “white noise,” the sounds of snow swooshing and crunching and swirling. evocative music. There is something of the Wallace Stevens jar-placed-in-the-wilderness effect going on here: the instruments gain meaning from the natural sounds and vice versa… evocative music."