Musician and composer Nenad Kovačić (HR) has graduated Ethnology and Sociology at the University of Zagreb. He has been active as a musician since 1997 and acts as a percussionist and explorer of the Balkan and west African rhythmics. He is member of many bands and groups, such as Antenat, Sevdah Takht Damira Imamovića (Glitterbeat Records), Afion, Mimika, Truth≠Tribe, Chant Electronique, and he actively performs throughout the world. Within many different artistic projects Kovačić is very active and present on the Croatian contemporary music scene, mostly focused on improvised music and musical experiments. Since 2007 he has worked as the author of the theatre and film music and has composed music for around 50 theatre plays and documentary movies. One of his most important interests in music is traditional music (especially from the Balkans, Mediterranean and West Africa) he has been learning during different workshops, seminars, sessions and travel - among others also from the greatest masters of the west African percussions in Guinea, Mali and Burkina Faso and in 2008 he has started leading workshops focused on west African rhythms and taught more than 200 students so far.