Godfried-Willem Raes

As a concert-organizer he has been responsible from 1973 until 1988 for the new-music concert programming of the Philharmonic Society at the Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels.

As a composer/performer and instrumentmaker he is the founder of the Logos- Group in 1968, out of which grew the Logos Duo, with Moniek Darge as well as the experimental M&M (Man and Machine) ensemble, operating with selfbuilt musical robots.

In 1982 he received the Louis Paul Boon Award for the social engagement in his artistic work.

His PhD from Ghent State University he got on the basis of his dissertation on the technology of virtual instruments of his design and invention.

He is the author of an extensive real time algorithmic music composition programming language GMT, running on the Wintel platform.