The composer and media artist has produced stage works with music, dance, theater, and interactive media. Together with the choreographer Dawn Stoppiello he founded the New York dance company Troika Ranch. They were called “interactive performance pioneers” by the New York Times and “multimedia mavericks” by the Village Voice. He has developed software and equipment especially for live performances, to enable the performers to control visual and acoustic media via the movements and voices. His most recent product is Isadora® for manipulating digital video recordings in real time, and it has been employed by the Wooster Group, Bebe Miller, the Tonelgroup Amsterdam, and many others. He studied with Morton Subotnik at the California Institute of the Arts and later taught there. He is a permanent member of the Center for Experiments in Arts, Information and Technology. Together with Stoppiello, he received the Dance Audience “Bessie” Award in 2003; in 2004–5 he was awarded two consecutive ARM Fellowships from the Dance Theater Workshop. In 2006 he will be active as the program’s organizer. At Forum Neues Musiktheater October 2005 Live-Video Processing for Die Süße unserer traurigen Kindheit, 2004 and 2005 Workshop to Software Isadora, November 2005 Forum Atelier 16 (R)evolutions and in June 2006 German Premiere of 16 (R)evolutions.