KAI STRATHMANN
composer || choreographer

After two decades in the professional dance field, sound gradually evolved into an independent artistic practice through which questions of movement, space, and perception could be explored in new ways.
Movement has been the foundation of my artistic practice. Through choreography, performance, and later composition, this practice expanded into an exploration of sound, space, and perception across multiple artistic forms. This development led me to pursue a second Master's degree in Integrative Composition at ICEM (Institute for Computer Music and Electronic Media) at Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen, focusing on electronic composition, sound design, and audiovisual creation. My work explores the interplay between movement, sound, and space, translating choreographic thinking into sonic and visual structures.

I define electronic and spatial music as an independent artistic field within my practice, establishing a compositional framework that operates beyond choreographic structures. My work engages space and time as distributed compositional parameters. In choreography, these are organized through the physical presence and relational dynamics of bodies in space; in multichannel composition, they are constructed through spatialized sound and mediated perception. This transition is grounded in a long-standing embodied practice in dance, which has developed a refined aesthetic sensitivity for spatial and temporal articulation. It is this embodied understanding that directly informs my approach to multichannel composition, allowing spatial and sonic structures to be shaped with a choreographic precision translated into the acoustic domain.