Standa Filip is musician and inventor, born in Most in 1957. He studied physics in Brno and he taught at the Brno University of Technology from 1987. In 1996 he moved to the Faculty of Fine Arts where he was teaching until 2011. He spent his youth in Košice where he began to make electronic sound generators. He started to build his first modular system of generators in 1972 and in 1976 he made his first keyboard instrument. In 1981 he started the legendary underground band Ještě jsme se nedohodli which is still playing concerts. In 1982 he made his first fretless electric guitar instrument Prkno, which became legendary through his band and is still played. Since than he made several DIY Guitars. In 1986 he introduced his ironical composition Symfonie Eš-dur poťapaná which featured his DIY electronic drum machine and a big construction electric instrument with several pickups. In 1987 he composed 3 compositions for the album Bittová & Fajt which became one of the most recognized Czechoslovakian alternative music albums. In the mid 90s he contributed to exhibitions of hi-tech art in the House of Art in Brno. He was a member of bandsPomalý posun, Pomalé prostředky (multimedia project 2003) and others. He is a member of the band Klikva Klikva, which has performed since 2007. He performed with FILIP_RICHTR_PELOUŠEK at the Multiplace festival 2011 where he also gave talks about his DIY approaches. He cooperates with Ondřej Merta and Václav Peloušek on their tribute project Standuino.