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Ann Warde began her work in experimental composition with George Cacioppo, a cofounder of the avant-garde ONCE Group. Her compositions explore algorithmic and interactive acoustic and electroacoustic environments, the inclusion of scientific and mathematical materials as sources for musical structures, and innovative approaches to the configuration of specific roles for performers. Her compositional involvement with the social dynamics of performance overlaps her study of Javanese and Balinese gamelan.

Her writings about invention in contemporary music by Indonesian composers, and about particular ways in which electronics might be involved in the configuring of relationships among performers and among performers and listeners, are published in the Leonardo Music Journal and Asian Music.

She has also created video works using a computer-controlled audio/video system of her own design which allows elements of color to influence aspects of sound, as well as innovative works that present visual and human motion as forms of musical experience. As a pianist she can be heard on the 1998 recording of Herbert Brün's Non Sequitur VI.

Her compositions have been heard throughout the United States and Canada, at the ICMC98 and SEAMUS2000 conferences, at the Bang on a Can Festival and the Composers' Forum in New York, as well as in Germany, Spain, and the Czech Republic. She was a winner in the West German Radio’s Forum for Young Composers, held in Cologne in 1992, and her work has been supported by grants from the New York State Council on the Arts, Meet the Composer, Inc., and the Burchfield Art Center, SUNY College at Buffalo. Her works have recently been performed by Gamelan Son of Lion and as part of a Residency at the Center for Contemporary Music at Mills College. She was a cofounder with flutist Cheryl Gobbetti of the contemporary performance group New and Used Music, which was heard regularly in concert series and on radio broadcasts in Buffalo, NY. She studied piano at the "Mozarteum" (Salzburg, Austria), and holds degrees from the University of Michigan, Wesleyan University, and the University of Illinois (doctorate). A 2000-2001 Mellon Fellow with the Society for the Humanities at Cornell University, she currently works in the Bioacoustics Research Program at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.