Martin Kohlstedt is among the outstanding composers, pianists and producers
for instrumental music and electronica. His past albums and their respective
reworks were rewarded with international recognition and concert tours
throughout the whole world. With his live performances Martin Kohlstedt sets
standards on how cutting edge electronica production can intermingle with
analogue and acoustic approaches ranging from classical piano and electronic
music to ambient and field recordings in an effortless way. Kohlstedt
intuitively combines inspirations and influences from fundamentally different
worlds and soundscapes into a unique musical amalgam and forms it into something
that feels more like a living body than a list of pieces. An immersive live
experience. He describes his style of work as modular composition; his pieces
are always in movement and never resort to a definitive form – even during
concerts. Improvisation is an important part of his creative process, and so are
the interaction with his audience on equal footing, the courage and sometimes
audacity to fail and the interaction with people, space and context. For this
Martin Kohlstedt collaborated with renowned partners such as the Leipzig
Gewandhaus choir and artists like Douglas Dare, Sudan Archives, Henrik Schwarz,
among others as well as labels like Warner Classics. Apart from his own
compositions Kohlstedt writes music and scores for movies, plays, podcasts and
audiobooks. Under the name of «Edition Kohlstedt» he runs his own label and
tries to do justice to his responsibilities as an international artist with a
reforestation project close to his birthplace.