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Claudius Rieth was born in 1972 in Lima, Perú. He always grew up with music around. In 1984, when he was 11 years old, his family moved to Buchholz, a small city in Germany nearby Hamburg. He always went on taking piano lessons, but started using the classical techniques for improvising and composing for a band named Alas. They played a lot in the early nineties in Germany and even in France. In 1990 they recorded a whole album in a studio in Hamburg. In that band Claudius played keyboards. However, the curiosity and the compositions he was making, took him to take drum lessons for some time in the music academy of Buchholz and learning a little bit of every instrument he wanted to incorporate in his creations. In 1994, when he had finished school and the social-year, he left the European ground . He finished his studies in the year 2000. Since then, he lives in Santiago, working as a sound engineer and music producer of the art project Cuerpos Pintados (www.cuerpospintados.com). He also is teacher of Electroacoustics and Recording Techniques at the Escuela Moderna de Música (www.emoderna.cl). He has recorded and mixed several local productions, searching always for new musical and sound experiences.