awards
2001 "Pierre d'Or" at the Bourges competition for the composition "Nyx
1999 Honorable Mention at the Concour International des Musique electroacoustique Bourges
1991-1993 DAAD scholarship at Stanford University.
1998 First prize at the UNESCO "Rostrum for electroacoustic Music" in Vienna.
Scholar of the ZKM. 2nd prize at the Prix Ars Electronica for "Sound Garden
1997+2001 "Pierre d'Or" Grand Prix of the Concour International de Musique electroacoustique Bourges.
1997 Larry Austin Prize of the "International Computer Music Association", San Francisco
1995 Honorable Mention at the Stockholm Music Prize.
1994 Golden Nica at the "Prix Ars Electronica" in Linz.
1992 Honorable Mention at the Luigi Russolo Prize, Varese.
1990 Busoni Prize of the Academy of Arts, Berlin
1990 Prize at the "Forum junger Komponisten" of WDR with performance of the winning piece at the Kölner Philharmonie with the Rundfunksinfonieorchester under Dennis Russel Davies
1989 Folkwang Award
juror, commission member
2017, 2018 Juro at the German Radio Play Prize of the ARD radio stations
2016, 2018 Advisory member of the Appointment Committee of the Artistic Professorships Trossingen
1.1-31.12.2016 Jury member at the "Radio play of the month and of the year" of ARD Rundfunkanstalten
2015 juror at the Musica Viva Prize, for electroacoustic music, Lisbon
2015 juror and artistic director for "Insonic", symposium
2014, 15, 16 Jury member at the "Pinball" radio play competition of ARD Anstalten
2013 juror at the Destellos competition for electroacoustic composition
2011, 2012, 2015Juror for the International Computer Music Conference in Huddersfield, Lubljana, Athens
2011, 2014 Jury member at the "Prix Ars Electronica, "
2009-2012 juror at the Walter Fink Prize for Dance and Electronic Media
2007-2016 Jury member of the Giga Hertz Prize
2007 juror at the composition award of the festival Synthese in Bourges
2006 juror at the Nuova Consonanza Evangelisti Competition, Rome
2003, 2004 Juror for the award of the DAAD one-year scholarships, Berlin
2003-2004 Conception and jury member of the VW Composition Prize, Phaetonwerk Dresden
2005 Expert for the Appointment Committee for the Composition Professorship Bremen
1995, 1996 Jury member of the "Prix Ars Electronica".
Publications in the Computer Music Journal on Common Lisp Music and electronic music with letters from Stockhausen, Risset, Chowning, Bayle, Koenig.
Commissions from INA-GRM (2009Akademie Künste, Berlin, ZKM, Karlsruhe, ICMA, San Francisco, IMEB in Bourges, TU-Berlin, Berlin Senate, Sound Art Festival, Osnabrück, Kryptonale, Berlin, Sonorities Festival Belfast, Musikbiennale Zagreb).
projects
2013-2016 Resumption of the work "Ruhrort" in the Ruhrtheater Bochum and German theatres
15.3-26.5.2013 "Urban Voice" sound installation at the Akademie der Künste Berlin, music in the cloud
2012 commission and performance of "etude interactive" at the Long Night Kaiserslautern
2011 Commissioned by the Philharmonic Orchestra Cottbus
2010 composition for the opera "Amazonas" at the Opera Biennale Munich and in Sao Paulo
2009 collaboration with the artist "rosalie" for the 20th anniversary of the ZKM.
2007 commission and performance of Move at the Ars Elctronica Festival Linz,
2005/07/09/12 Interactive installations in various ZKM exhibitions, including "Pattern" and "Random" an interactive installation for a playful approach to both phenomena
2005 commission and performance of "Le temps du miroir" at the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria
2.12.2001 Commissioned by the "Modern Art Sextet" Berlin for the audiovisual work "surfaces".
2000 Commissioned by the ZKM for Medusa, for 2 drummers and 4-channel band.
9.2000 Performance of "Inferno der Stille" at the Inventionen 2000 in Berlin, Rome, Lyon and Paris.
1992 / 93 / 95 / 97 / 2000 Performances at the International Computer Music Conferences in
San Jose (USA), Tokyo, Banff (Canada), Thessaloniki and Berlin.
6.2000 Music and sound for the installations "Particles" and "InSound Out" by Christian Moeller as the exhibition at Wellcome Wing (digitopolis) opened by H.M. Queen Elisabeth. http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/wellcome-wing/menu.asp
30.10.1999 Premiere of the music Video´s "Le temps s`ouvre" at the festival ExMachina in Essen. Le temps s´ouvre was produced in collaboration with ACROE in Grenoble, the ZKM Karlsruhe,
with Interartes Essen and the Ministry of Science NRW.
6.1998 Invitation to ACROE, (Institute for Applied Mathematics) in Grenoble for a project in the field of visual programming with physical models. The result is "Le temps s´ouvre."
10.1998-10.2000 Research project on "Subschall sound transmission in a musical environment" at the Hochschule für Gestaltung, conducted by Prof. Christian Moeller and Dr. ing. Till Freudenberg.
4.1997 collaboration with media artist Christian Moeller for exhibitions in the Spiral
Hall Tokyo, and on "Cyber 98" at the Centro Cultural Belem in Lisbon.
1997 Commissioned by the International Computer Music Association (ICMA) to compose the performance.
at the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) 1997 in Thessaloniki. For this
created the video "Lizard Point" together with the video artist Silke Braemer.
22.5.1997 commission for "Hi An Lo" for the festival "KlangArt" 1997 in Osnabrück, Germany
3.12.1995 Production and performance of the audiovisual concept "Reflets de Maurice" at the Folkwang Hochschule, the Akademie der Künste Berlin, as well as in Bielefeld and Schloss Moyland with the pianist Catherine Vickers premiere of CRI at the "Werkstattage für Elektroakustische Musik".
1995,97,99 Collaboration with solo dancers of the Folkwang Hochschule für "Le temps s´ouvre" 1997, "La cloche sans vallees" and for the video "Le temps s´ouvre" in 1999.
1995 Commissioned by the Akademie der Künste and realized in the Electronic Studio of the Akademie Berlin.
1995 commission and scholarship holder of the ZKM Karlsruhe.
29.9.1995 Performance with Monica Klingler (CH), Tanz, Lienhard Widmer (CH), licht design at the symposium "Brain, Spirit, Culture" http://www.neugalu.ch/SYMP95.HTM
17.1.1995 Premiere of "Le temps s-ouvre" for piano, 4-channel tape and choreography.
1994 Composition commission from the Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe for the 4-channel work "Ambre, Lilac", which models the sound objects moving in space.
1992/1993 performances of "Le tombeau de Murice", "La cloche sans vallees" and "The gates of H." at Stanford University
7.1992 Collaboration with the Nederlands Dans Theater, The Hague and with Susanne Linke for the choreography "Tristan und Isolde" as composer and musical consultant. In this context "Riti Contour" for large orchestra was performed on tour in the Netherlands.
1990 Collaboration with Robin Schulkowsky for "Moi pas!" commissioned by E-Werk Freiburg.