Born 1976. He is a Berlin-based composer, performer and installation artist, working in the field between instrumental music, electronics, video and performance, ranging from symphony orchestra and chamber music (with and without multimedia) to stage music, solo performances, and installations. He studied composition with Karl Aage Rasmussen, Mathias Spahlinger, Gabriel Valverde, and Bent Sørensen in Aarhus, Freiburg, Buenos Aires, and Copenhagen (1998–2006). Since 2008 he has lectured composition at the Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus, and in 2013–14 he is visiting professor at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo.
He has received numerous prizes and grants, including the Kranichsteiner Music Award (2008), International Rostrum of Composers, DAAD Residency (2010), Carl Nielsen Prize and Kunstpreis Musik from the Akademie der Künste in Berlin (2013). He has received commissions from ensembles, institutions and festivals such as ensemble recherche, Neue Vokalsolisten Stuttgart, SWR, Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra, Ensemble Ascolta, Danish National Chamber Orchestra, JACK Quartet, Donaueschinger Musiktage, Ultraschall, Wittener Tage für Neue Kammermusik, and ECLAT. He has cooperated with leading ensembles such as Klangforum Wien, Collegium Novum Zürich, ICTUS, Arditti, London Sinfonietta, Oslo Sinfonietta, Ensemble intercontemporain, asamisimasa, and NADAR.
His latest works concentrate on integrating elements of musique concrète and emphasising the physical and choreographic aspects of instrumental performance. The works often include amplified acoustic instruments in combination with sampler, video, simple everyday objects, or homemade constructions.

Major works (since 2005): Amongst, concerto for extremely amplified guitar and large orchestra (2005), Within Amongst, anticadenza for amplified guitar solo (2005), [sproglyd], interactive website for Norwegian and Danish words and phonemes with string quartet (2005), loloopop, audiovisual installation (with Carl Krull, 2006), Chambered Music for 12 instruments and sampler (2007), In Spite Of, And Maybe Even Therefore for three amplified and four unamplified instruments (2007), Difficulties Putting It into Practice (Prior In Her Frown) for two amplified performers (2007, rev. 2010), Nothing Integrated for extremely amplified clarinet, percussion, cello and live video (2007), soundTAG, epidemic sound installation (with Kaj Aune, 2008), On And Off And To And Fro for vibraphone, saxophone/ clarinet, double bass/cello and three players with megaphones (2008), Beloved Brother, two movements from J. S. Bach’s Capriccio on the Departure of His Dearly Beloved Brother arranged for backside guitar (2008), Pretty Sound (Up And Down) for amplified piano (2008), Self Simulator, interactive installation (2009), Run Time Error, video installation/performance (2009– ), Ouvertures for amplified guzheng, sampler and orchestra (2008–10), Double Up for sampler and small orchestra (2010), Study for String Instrument nos. 1–3 (2007–11), History of My Instrument for prepared harp and video (2011), Im Rauschen, for piccolo, flute and bass clarinet with intrainstrumental playback (2012), String Quartet no. 2 for strings with prepared and amplified bows (2012), Black Box Music for percussion solo, amplified box, 15 players and video (2012), Inszenierte Nacht, stagings of pieces by Bach, Schumann, Mozart and Ravel in cooperation with Ensemble Ascolta (2013).