Florian Grote is Senior Product Designer for Maschine, Native Instruments' groove production studio.
Besides his work for NI, he also produces electronic music under the moniker "grassland", and conducts research in the field of cultural sociology. He has collaborated with Mouse On Mars on experimental instrument concepts, and has been a lecturer at Leuphana and Zeppelin Universities, Hochschule der Künste Bern, and STEIM, Amsterdam.