Peter McCarey was born in Paisley in 1956 and brought up in Glasgow. He has studied and worked in Europe, Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. In 1988 he moved with his family to Geneva. His major audiovisual work The Syllabary, a poem he has been composing since the mid-1990s, can be found at www.thesyllabary.com. Cleikit, a large audio visual collaboration, can be found on www.cleikit.com.