He is principal lecturer in composition and leader of the experimental research group INTIME at Coventry University, UK. He studied composition at Huddersfield and Keele Universities and completed a doctorate in composition at Boston University. In the 1993 ALEA III composition competition his piano and tape work Ironwork was a prize-winner; the acousmatic work Break was a finalist at Music Viva 2004, while in 2006 Shelter received an honourable mention at Bourges, IMEB. In 2010, Can won the medal of the Senato della Repubblica Italiana Music Contest “Città di Udine.” Recent compositions include the dance video work, Voice (a retracing); Leaf for hulusi and electronics, and the live electronics work Dart composed for the cellist Madeleine Shapiro and premiered in NYC in April 2012.