Florian Tepelmann was born in Oldenburg, Germany in 1986. Diverse experiences across Europe and North and South America as well as studies of diferent subjects at several universities led him – via an interest in music, poetry and language – to explore performance art and sound as a frequent member over three years in Leipzig based collective friendlyfire e.V. He continues to investigate the nowness in bodily movement and aurality by making analog and digital electronic music and through his collaboration with media artist Liese Endler, with whom he realized a number of works, including How to Decode Urban Signs and Encoding Kunstfiguren. floriantepelmann.com