Marcus Maeder is a sound artist and composer of electronic music. His artistic work focuses on computer music and the artistic and media extensions of the term. As an author, he has written on a number of topics in the fields of sound art and digital media. He studied Art at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Lucerne. He runs the music label domizil. He has worked as an editor and producer for the Swiss radio station SRF and has been working as a curator at the Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology (ICST) of the Zurich University of the Arts since 2005. As a researcher at the Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology ICST of the Zurich University of the Arts ZHdK, Marcus Maeder investigates the relationships between acoustic emissions in plants and ecophysiological processes. He is currently working on data sonification of ecophysiological and climatic processes and studying the acoustic and aesthetic requirements for making them perceptible.