Volker Straebel, born in 1969, is a musicologist and lives in Berlin as a freelance writer, curator and composer (he has composed realisations of indeterminate works by John Cage as well as his own pieces). He focuses on electro-acoustic music, the American and European avant-garde, performance, intermedia and sound art.
He is a research associate at the Electronic Studio of the Technical University of Berlin and teaches in the Sound Studies course at the University of the Arts (UdK).

www.straebel.de