Kramer Elwell (B. 1990, Seattle) is a composer, percussionist, improviser, and sound artist currently based in Santa Barbara, CA. His acoustic and electroacoustic works attempt to create massively rich timbral spaces and soundscapes, spin cryptic and surrealist narratives, and find atypical avenues from which to perform new music. This includes any combination of  graphic or multimedia notation, improvisation, computer programming, installation, or interdisciplinary collaboration.

Kramer's works have been performed at festivals and conferences at home and abroad. Some events include the SEAMUS National Conference, The International Computer Music Conference, Electroacoustic Barn Dance, The SPLICE Institute, and more. And as an Artist-in-Residence he has also collaborated with many arts organizations, like: The Glen Arbor Arts Association, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts.

Alongside composers Jon Fielder and Chris Ozley, Kramer is one of the founding members of the Cmd+Q Laptop

Trio. The mission statement of Cmd+Q: to bring a uniquely exciting, humanistic, and actively performative

nature to live electronics improvisation while being as poly-stylistic and informal as possible.

The sonic result can be anywhere from a kerplunkity acousmatic texture to a bizarre and off-kilter

EDM. Your results may vary.

Kramer is currently pursuing a PhD in Music Composition and a Master of Science in Media

Arts and Technology from the University of California Santa Barbara- studying with

Clarence Barlow, Joao Pedro Oliveira, Curtis Roads, Andrew Tholl, and Karl Yerkes.

He also holds a Master of Music degree in music composition from the University

of Texas at Austin as well as two Bachelor of Music degrees from Western

Washington University; one in Music Composition and one

in Percussion Performance.