Ben Ramsay graduated from Middlesex University, London, with a BA (Hons) in Sonic Arts in 2001, and is now a Creative Music Technology lecturer at Staffordshire University in the West Midlands, UK. His research is centred around acousmatic music composition and the exploration of social and sonic relationships that exist between modern forms of electronic music, in particular the relationship between electronica and acousmatic music. He is currently studying for a PhD in Electroacoustic composition at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK, under the supervision of Prof. Simon Emmerson.