*1961, studied music and musicology in Vienna and Berlin, curates the festival musikprotokoll im steirischen herbst, 2009-2014 artistic director and manager of the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra. Visiting lecturer at the School of Critical Studies at the California Institute of the Arts (1998), lecturer for music aesthetics at the Vienna University of Music and Performing Arts. Editor (together with Sabine Sanio) of the books das rauschen (1995) and Übertragung – Transfer – Metapher. Kulturtechniken, ihre Visionen und Obsessionen (2004); author (together with Susanna Niedermayr) of European Meridians / In the East – New Music Territories (2002/2003).