Mathew Adkins is a composer, performer, of electronica, electroacoustic and instrumental music. He was born in 1972 in Leamington, England. He was introduced to electronic and acousmatic music during his music studies at Pembroke College, Cambridge. After he graduated from Cambridge in 1993 he pursued postgraduate research in electronic music at the University of Birmingham with Jonty Harrison and later at the University of East Anglia with Simon Waters.