Education
Maeder studied Art at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences He runs the music label domizil, which he co-founded in 1996 with Bernd Schurer.
Maeder studied Art at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences He runs the music label domizil, which he co-founded in 1996 with Bernd Schurer.
His artistic work focuses mainly on computer music and the artistic and media extensions of the term. As an author, Maeder has written on a number of topics in the fields of sound art and digital media. Maeder has worked as an editor and producer for the Swiss radio station DRS and has been working as a curator and researcher at the Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology (ICST) of the Zurich University of the Arts since 2005.
In his research at the ICST, Maeder is working on data sonification of ecophysiological and climatic processes and studying the acoustic and aesthetic requirements for making them perceptible.
On an invitation by French President François Hollande, Maeder presented his sound art installation trees: Pinus sylvestris at the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference COP21.