Jan Jacob Hofmann born 1966 in Germany. Diploma, branch of architecture at the Fachhochschule Frankfurt am Main, University Of Applied Sciences in 1995. Entered the class of Peter Cook and Enric Miralles at the Staedelschule Art School Frankfurt am Main in 1995, a postgraduate class of conceptual design and architecture. Diploma at the Staedelschule in 1997. Works as a composer, photographer and architect since. Since 1986 dealing with sound- composition and electronic music. Music for performances. Since April 2000: Work on spatialisation of sound via Higher Order Ambisonics. Several international performances in America, Europe and Asia since. Research on Ambisonic and other spatialisation techniques. Development and publication of Csound based tools for spatialisation via 3rd order Ambisonic. Became associate researcher in summer 2005 at the „Signal Processing Applications Research Group“, University of Derby, England. Member of the board of the German electroacoustic music society (DEGEM) from 2006 to 2023. Awards: Nominated for the German Prize For Sonic Arts of the Museum for Sculpture "Glaskasten" of the City of Marl in April 2006. The work "Licht aus - Klang an!" has been awarded with the Gold-Award in the category "Spaces" by the Deutscher Designer Club in 2018.