Born in Zurich, Switzerland, studied composition, cello and conducting in London and electronic and computer music in The Hague/Netherlands, with Joel Ryan and Clarence Barlow, in the mid 1990s. Their highly individual and influential approach towards composition and live-electronics has stongly influenced his own music.
Invited by Michel Waisvisz he lead STEIM - the renown Dutch Studio for Electro Instrumental Music, and home of 'New Instruments' - as Artistic Director until 2005. There he collaborated with musicians and artists as wide afield as Frances-Marie Uitti, Netochka Nezvanova, Laetitia Sonami, Francisco Lopez, Jon Rose, Anne Laberge, Steina Vasulka, Frank van de Ven, and numerous Dutch New Music Ensembles and organisations like the FNM/Stuttgart and the Theremin Institute/Moscow. He is now STEIM's composer-in-research and creative project advisor.

His music is intimately expressiv, while at times lyrical, and makes extensive use of electronically modified instrumental sounds in 'realtime'. His concerts and workshops have taken him as far afield as Johannesburg's Soweto, Iceland and the street kids & artists of Guatemala City, as well as all over Europe.
Recent works include the (ongoing) “KAIROS Project”, where he invites instrumental virtuosi to play along with new sensor instruments, among others.
At Forum Neues Musiktheater in 2004 he hold the STEIM-workshop and in 2006 world premiere of his NewMediaPocketOpera piece garden of dream/folie à deux at Forum Neues Musiktheater in collaboration with the ISCM World New Music Festivals 2006.