dr.Godfried-Willem Raes (1952) is an internationaly outstanding music-maker in the broadest sense of the word. Up to 2014 he was a professor of composition and acoustics at the Ghent School of Arts. Nowadays he is mostly charged with post-doctoral research into extending expressive possibilities of acoustic instruments and their human interfaces. He is the designer of what got to be known as the largest robot orchestra in the world and the inventor of a fully wireless expressive gesture recognition system (the invisible instrument, the topic of his doctoral dissertation). At this moment he is working on the refinement of automated musical instruments with playing possibilities that by far exceed anything possible by humans. He was awarded the Louis Paul Boon prize (1982), the Tech-Art Prize (1990) as well as Cultural Ambassador of Flanders (1997). He is the founder and director of the Ghent based Logos Foundation.