Ludger Brümmer  is a composer and since 2003 director of the Institute for Music and Acoustics at the Centre for Arts and Media  Karlsruhe.  He received his diploma in psychology and sociology in 1983. Between 1983 and 1989 he studied composition at the Folkwang Hochschule Essen. He was a visiting scholar at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustic ( CCRMA ) at Stanford University between 1991 and 1993. After having taught composition and analysis at the Folkwang Hochschule Essen for eight years he accepted a position as  research fellow at Kingston University London  in 2000 and continued to teach as lecturer for composition at the Sonic Arts  Research Centre at Queen´s University Belfast. In 2009 he became a member of the Academy of the Arts in Berlin.  He also received several awards such as the Busoni Award of the Academy of the Arts, Berlin, the Golden Nica at the »Ars Electronica 1994« and in 2001 the first prize at the »Rostrum for electroacoustic music« by the UNESCO.