Marcus Maeder is a sound artist, composer of electronic music and author. He studied fine arts at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts and currently studies philosophy at the University of Hagen. He runs the music label domizil, which he co-founded with Bernd Schurer in 1996. Maeder has worked as an editor and producer for the Swiss radio station SRF and has been working at the Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology (ICST) of the Zurich University of the Arts since 2005. His work focuses mainly on computer music and the artistic and media extensions of the term. As an author, Maeder has written on a number of topics in the fields of sound art and digital media.