Born 1944, basic musical studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Stuttgart. Thereafter a variety of studies in composition: with Karkoschka, Stockhausen and Ligeti in Europe; 1969 as DAAD-bursary holder in New York with Berio (Juilliard School), Wuorinen and Tanenbaum (Manhattan School of Music). 1973 - 1976 lecturer for composition at the University of Natal, Durban, South Africa, responsible for the establishment of an electronic music studio, and since 1976 (1980 as professor) at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Stuttgart. 1998 director of the Electronic Music Studio. Contract lecturer for experimental music at the University and State Academy for Visual Arts in Stuttgart. Member of the board of the Film Academy in Ludwigsburg.

Free lance contractor to SDR (South German Broadcast Corporation). Guest lecturer in the USA, Europe, Philippines, South Africa, Korea and Australia. Participation in festivals for (mainly) electroacoustic music in Varadero, Cuba (1985, 87, 89, 93, 98), Baltimore, USA (1988), Brno, CSFR (1991), Seoul (1993), Wrozlaw, Poland, Bourges, France (1994) and Montreal (1995). Guest conductor in Tainan, Taiwan (1985 and 88), lecturer at the Percussion Convention in Nashville (1989) and at the 3rd symposium of eco-acoustic art in Madgeburg (1997), artist in residence at the Studio PASS in New York (1986), the Washington Project of the Arts (1990) and the Lee Strasburg Institute in Los Angeles (1993 and 96) and at IMEB, Bourges 2002. Around 100 composition mainly using electronics, amongst them 15 collective compositions with Juergen Brauninger, David Mason, Oliver Prechtl, Matthias Schneider-Hollek, Maceij Walczak and Rainer Wehinger.