Alper Maral was born in Istanbul. As a composer and musician he lives in Istanbul, Berlin and Tokyo. He is a doctoral student of musicology and composition at the Institute of Social Sciences of Ege University in Bornova-Izmir and has composed over a thousand pieces of music. Among them soundtracks for film and theater, symphonies, chamber operas and also electro-acoustic works. He has written numerous articles on the relationship between music and social context and teaches composition, musicology and sound technology at various universities. Various musical formations work with his compositions. Some of them, such as Control Voltage Project, Bornova Trio, A-415, Istanbul Baroque Community and Karınca Kabilesi, he has created himself.