Atau lived in the San Francisco area in the late 80’s when he was doing his PhD at Stanford’s CCRMA. He began working with muscle sensing by using the BioMuse in 1990. He went overseas in 1992 with a scholarship to conduct research at IRCAM in Paris. He has since been Artistic Ambassador for Apple France, and researcher at Sony Computer Science Laboratory Paris. In the 90’s he formed Sensorband with Zbigniew Karkowski and Edwin van der Heide and then moved to Japan, playing with Merzbow, Otomo, and KK Null. After having met John Cage during his Norton Lectures, he re-created Cage’s Variations VII with Matt Wand and :zoviet*france: in 2008. Atau has been was Artistic Co-Director of STEIM and is currently Professor of Media Computing and a member of the Embodied Audiovisual Interaction (EAVI) research unit at Goldsmiths in London.