[2] Glandien has received several scholarships and awards,[3] including the Voya Toncitch Prize at the International Piano Composition Contest in Paris in 1987 for his work entitled 365.
[6] After graduating in 1987 he wrote a number of classical pieces for solo instruments, chamber ensemble and symphony orchestra.
He also set up his own studio and created soundtracks for over 60 radiophonic pieces, documentary films, video performances, exhibitions and sound installations.
In 1991 Glandien wrote a piece for tape and percussion called Strange Drums, and asked Cutler to perform it at the International Festival of Electroacoustic Music in Berlin.
This was followed by Trompose for tape, percussion and trombone which Cutler performed with trombonist Connie Bauer, and Turbo Mortale for triple tuba, percussion and electronics performed by Cutler and Berlin Philharmonic tuba player Michael Vogt at the Berlin Inventionen in 1992.