Education:
2003 - 2009 - University of Music / Univerity of Technology - Graz, Austria ,Sound engineering (Master of Science)
2001 - 2003 - University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, Austria, Department for jazz / saxophone
1999 - 2002 - Faculty of education Maribor, study of musical pedagogics
1997 - 2001 - Music school Maribor, ( saxophone )
Employment: since 2008: Director of IRZU – the Institute for Sonic Arts Research in Ljubljana, Slovenia
Guest Lectures:
2011 - TEDx, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2011 - Media arts depatrment of UdK - Universitaet der Kuenste, Berlin, Germany
2011 - Just Listen festival,Cork, Ireland
2010 - IRCAM, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
2010 - New York University, New York, USA
2010 - Tulane University, New Orleans, USA
2010 - McGill University (IDMIL), Montreal, Canada
2010 - Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada
2010 - University of British Columbia, Vancouver Canada
2010 - School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA
2010 - OFAI - Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Inteligence, Vienna, Austria
2010 - Kunstuniversität Linz - Interface Culture Lab - Linz, Austria
2010 - Department of Information Physics and Computing - University of Tokyo, Japan
2010 - Music Technology Group - University Pompeau Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
2010 - Interaction desigh Group, University of Melbourne, Australia
2009 - Kunstuniversitaet Linz, Austria
2007 - CRCA - University of California, San Diego, USA
2007 - Robert Morris University - Pittsburgh, Pensilvania, USA
2005 - Conservatorium of Music - University of Sydney, Australia
2005 - University of Technology Sydney, Australia
2005 - Faculty of Creative Arts - University of Wollongong, Australia
Scholarships / grants:
2010 - working stipend ( Slovenian Ministry of Culture )
2004 - 2008 - Msc/BSc Scholarship ( Slovenian Ministry of Culture )
2006 - Einklang - Fellowship - Composers Forum Mittersill – Austria
2005 - ACM multimedia, Singapore – student conference grant / award
(sponsored by IBM and Microsoft)
Publications:
2011 - "Syntact - an open air musical controller providing non-contact tactile feedback
-International ICST Conference on Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment, Genova, Italy
2010 - »Sonic beams / acoustic shadows« - ICMC - International Computer Music Conference, New York, USA
2010 - »Tactile feedback based on acoustic pressure waves«
- ICMC - International Computer Music Conference 2010, New York, USA
2010 - »An ultrasound based instrument generating audible and tactile sound«
- NIME - New Interfaces for Musical Expression 2010 - Sydney, Australia
2009 - »The Temporal Character of Timbre« - Masters Thesis - Institute for Electronic Music and Acoustics Graz
2008 - »a Full-body Gesture Recognition System and its Integration in the Composition 3rd.Pole«
- ICMC - International Computer Music Conference 2010 – Belfast, Ireland
2008 - »3rd. Pole - a Composition Performed via Gestural Cues«
- NIME - New Interfaces for Musical Expression 2008 - Genova, Italy
2006 - », not a time machine.« - Monaco Dance Forum – Monaco
2006 - »I.B.R. Variation III« - Electronic Music Studies Network conference - Beijing, China
2005 - »I.B.R. Variation II« - HyperKult 14 -AudioKult and Hypersound - Lüneburg, Germany
2005 - »I.B.R. Variation I« - "Totally Huge", new music festival conference - Perth, Australia
2005 - »Tastes like…« - ACM Multimedia conference 2005 - Singapore
2004 - »A piece for two instruments and a saxophone player«
- Creative Connections Symposium - Biennale of Electronic Arts Perth, Australia
Residencies:
2007 - STEIM - Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2006 - MuseumsQuartier/Tonspur – Vienna, Austria
2004 - STEIM - Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Performances / Installations (selection):
2011 - Frankfurter Gesellschaft fuer Neue Musik - Frankfurt Germany
2010 - Upgrade! Paris - Ars Longa Gallery - Paris, France
- La Generalle - Paris, France
- Festival Platforma - Maribor, Slovenia
- Miraikan - National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation, Tokyo, Japan
- SuperDeluxe / SOUNDROOM / Device Art Festival, Tokyo, Japan
- Festival With No Fancy Name - Experimental Intermedia, New York, USA
- Favoriten Modern - Vienna Austria
- Festival Visiones Sonoras - Morelia, Mexico
- Ecology of Techno Mind - Group exhibition - European Parliament - Brussels, Belgium
- Slovenska Filharmonija - Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Festival UKREP - Ljubljana, Slovenia
- UnConference (part of International Computer Music Conference) - New York, USA
- Horse Bazar - Melbourne, Australia
- Dorkbot @ Serial Space - Sydney, Australia
2009 - LiWoLi Festival – Linz, Austria
- ARSENAL DEPO 2K9 - Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Terminal00 Festival - London, UK
- Tonspur @ Centre for Contemporaty Art DOX - Prague, Czech Republic
- Exodos Festival - Ljubljana, Slovenia
- BJCEM biennial – Skopje, Macedonia
- Device Art festival – Zagreb, Croatia
- Performa festival - Maribor, Slovenia
2008 - Audio Art Festival - Krakow, Poland
- Ars Electronica Festival – Linz, Austria
- NIME - New Interfaces for Musical Expression - Genova, Italy
- Netmage Festival – Bologna, Italy
- Festival Performa - Maribor, Slovenia
- Alberto Ukebana - Berlin, Germany
- Festival Haip - Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Sound Explicit - Gallery P74 - Ljubljana, Slovenia
- SNG / Slovenian National Theatre - Maribor, Slovenia
2007 - 404 Festival on Tour - Parco di San Giovanni - Trieste, Italy
- SoundWalk 07 festival - Los Angeles, California, USA
- Future Tenant Gallery - Pittsburgh, Pensilvania, USA
- Biennale Arte Nuevo interactiva 07 - Merida, Mexico
- Videomedeja Festival 07 - Novi Sad, Serbia
- A4 Zero Space - Bratislava, Slovakia
- OKC Abraševic - Mostar, Bosnia
- Composers Forum Mittersill, Austria
- Alte Schmiede - Vienna, Austria
2006 - Monaco Dance Forum - Monaco
- Chashama - New York, NY, USA
- Device Art festival - San Francisco, USA
- MusicAcoustica Festival - Beijing, China
- Gallery MAERZ - Linz, Austria
- Tonspur 17 – MuseumsQuartier - Vienna, Austria
- Conservatorium of Music - University of Sydney, Australia
- Cube/ Institute for Electronic Music (IEM) - Graz, Austria
2005 - ACM Multimedia Conference 2005 - Singapore
- Dis-orientation series - The Abercrombie Hotel - Sydney, Australia
- PICA - Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts - Perth, Australia
- Fabrique.25 - Brisbane Powerhouse / Room 40 - Brisbane, Australia
- Oscillations - 30 days of sound - Gallery of modern art Ljubljana, Slovenia
- World Theatre Festival Zagreb, Croatia
- BJCEM biennale 2005 - Naples, Italy
- 13th. Audio Art Festival - Krakow, Poland
- FILE Festival / Hipersonica - Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Festival EnterMultimediale 2 - Palace Akropolis - Prague, Czech Republic
- Weisman Museum - Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
- Collective: Unconscious - New York, New York, USA
- Electrofringe, new media arts festival 05 - Newcastle, Australia
- University of Maine - Presque Isle, Maine, USA
- The Essl Collection - Klosterneuburg, Austria
- Break Festival 2.3 - Ljubljana, Slovenia
2004 - Biennale of Electronic Arts Perth, Australia
- Contemporary art museum - St. Louis, Missouri, USA
- Hill Recital Hall, Birmingham-Southern College - Alabama, USA
- UNDER St. Marks (electro-acoustic month) - New York City, USA
- 404 International festival of electronic arts - Rosario, Argentina
- New directions music festival - LASALLE-SIA College, Singapore
- Festival »Coded cultures 2004« - MuseumsQuartier, Vienna, Austria
- Art trail soundworks (Cork Middsummer festival 2004) - Cork, Ireland
- Chopin concert hall - National university of music Bucharest, Romania
- PD (pure data) convention – Kunsthaus - Graz, Austria
- Steirisc[:her:]bst- Musikprotokoll - Graz, Austria
- Festival »Zeppelin 2004« - Barcelona, Spain
- Project 101 - Paris, France