In his youth he studied the saxophone and performed in free jazz and avant rock bands under the mentorship of trumpeter Don Cherry. At the same time he was getting obsessed with multitrack tape machines, record players and effect boxes and he started experimenting with many different instruments and sound making devices. After college he briefly studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and worked for several years as an assistent for the contemporary composer Josef Anton Riedl.

Since late 1995 he works and lives in Berlin where he became an active and integral force of the so-called “Berlin Nouvelle Vague” and the blossoming “real time music” scene. From the middle of the nineties onwards his interest and activities almost completely shifted towards live-electronics and after testing various instrumentations (hard- & software samplers, signal processing, contact mics, field recordings, …) he developed his own and quite unique electro-acoustic set-up which he calls “rotating surfaces”. Various objects and materials (from wood, metal, plastic, paper or violin bows and cymbals) are played directly on the rotating metal plate of the turntable and the vibrations are simply amplified with a small condensator microphone. With this set-up he covers many different styles of contemporary experimental music – ranging from extreme reductionism via ambient, industrial, musique concrete, electronica to harsh noise.

Besides his favorite setting which is the direct duo-confrontation with the likes of Andrea Belfi (IT), Alexei Borisov (RUS), Mwata Bowden (USA), Sebastian Buczek (PL), Phil Durrant (GB), Gunnar Geisse (D), GX Jupitter-Larsen/The Haters (USA), Sven-Åke Johansson (D/S), R Keenan Lawler (USA), Amine Mesnaoui (Maroc), Andrea Neumann (D), Andrea Parkins (USA), Mat Pogo (IT), Dawid Szczesny (PL), Martin Tetreault (CAN), Sabine Vogel (D) or David Watson (USA) … he is also member and founder of many different ensembles like Perlonex, Snake Figures Arkestra, BETT4, Phosphor, Tree People, Decollage, Berlin Sound Connective, The Ten Minutes Band, Nighthawk Kitchen, The International Turntable Orchestra, Splitter Orchester, N.I.E., etc.