Composer and cellist born in 1968, studied at the Lucerne Conservatory and at Boston University School of Music. Lives and workes in Solothurn, Switzerland. After experiences in new and experimental music, improvisation and noise Stefan Thut started writing scores in order to specify parts of parameters. His compositional strategies involve permeable systems being relatively determined but still unpredictable in their sonic results. Aside of instrumenting in traditional ways phonographies as well as everyday material and consumer electronics serve as components in his performances.