Born in 1953 in Cracow, he studied the organ with Leszek Werner and composition with Bogusław Schaeffer at the Music Academy in Cracow. He is now an Associate Professor of composition there. He has been working with the Academy's Electroacoustic Music Studio since 1976. In 2000 he was appointed its Director.
In 1977 he founded the 'Muzyka Centrum' Artistic Association. It has given about 400 concerts of new music. He is also a founder of the 'mch Studio' and (together with Krzysztof Knittel and Piotr Bikont) co-founder of 'Freight Train' and the Ch&K Studio (with Knittel).
Since 1987 he has organized the 'Audio Art' concert series. He is the initiator and Artistic Director of the International 'Audio Art' Festival and of International Contemporary Music Workshops Cracow/Stuttgart (with Matthias Hermann). Since 1990 he has given concerts (mainly of live computer music), run courses and given lectures in computer music in many European countries, the United States and Canada. In 1993-99 he served as Artistic Director of the Internationale Akademie fźr Neue Komposition und Audio Art in Schwaz (Austria).
His output includes instrumental and electro-acoustic music, computer audio-visual compositions, as well incidental music for the theatre, music for films, radio and television. He is the author of spatial projects Statek Artyst-w and gps-Art.