Matt's Latest Videos
Click above and below to hear my favorite speeches mixed with cool hip hop beats.
DJ Matt Werner is a Bay Area-based spoken word DJ. An Oakland native, Matt has DJed such venues as the Bill Graham Civic Center in San Francisco, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts for Youth Speaks' annual Bringing the Noise for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and his mixes have been played on KPFA.
Over the past four years, Matt has DJed numerous literary events at UC Berkeley and around the San Francisco Bay Area, ranging from the last three Poetry After the Storm reading series for New Orleans libraries, to Berkeley Poetry Review events.
Matt hopes to raise the level of public discourse by recontextualizing eloquent voices of the present and past in a format readily accessible to the web 2.0/hip hop generation.
For more, check out www.youtube.com/djmattwerner and www.myspace.com/djmattwerner