Sanio studied German language and literature, and philosophy at Universities in Frankfurt and Berlin. She holds a Doctorate in German Studies with the thesis »Alternativen zur Werkästhetik: Cage und Heißenbüttel« (Saarbrücken, 1999) and a habilitation in Musicology. She has published numerous writing on current music and media aesthetics, among others: »1968 und die Avantgarde« (Sinzig, 2008); as editor: »Sound als Zeitmodell: Zeit als Klang denken« (Berlin, 2014); as co-editor: »Heroines of Sound. Feminismus und Gender in elektronischer Musik« (Hofheim, 2019).