Jean Jacques Perrey was born in France in 1929 and is among the most seminal pioneers of electronic music. In the early 1950s, he gave up his medical studies in favour of his love for the then new and now legendary Ondoline synthesizer - he has devoted himself to electronic music ever since. Together with another obsessive synthesizer musician, Gershon Kingsley, he began producing "Music for Laughs and Smiles" in the 1960s in New York, using the Ondoline and the Moog and reworking field recordings à la musique concrète - music to make you happy. Perrey and Kingsley are known as the founders of Space Age Pop and had their first big success with their LP "The In Sound from Way Out". Perrey not only worked with such celebrities as Raymond Scott, Robert Moog, Pierre Schaeffer, Edith Piaf, Walt Disney, Angelo Badalamenti, but his music also served as material for samples and remixes by musicians of younger generations, like in the 1996 Beastie Boys Album “The In Sounds from Way Out", or in the remix of the seventies funk classic "EVA " by Fatboy Slim. On the occasion of transmediale. 06, Jean Jacques Perrey comes to Berlin for the first time. On February 6th he, together with Dana Countryman, will present his new CD at Club Transmediale. One day before, he goes on stage at Akademie der Künste where he presents sound samples and images illustrating his exemplary career.