Kris Kuldkepp is an experimental musician and performance artist originally from Estonia, currently based in Hamburg, Germany. Kris’ work investigates the perception, materiality, and behavior of sound, emphasizing its resonance within physical spaces. With a background in classical and early music performance on the double bass, Kris now works with experimental practices that incorporate improvisation, deep listening, and a focus on singular sounds and noise. The resulting sonic works are characterized by the interplay of string basses, modular synthesizers, found objects, field recordings, and live electronics, realized through live performances, installations, and music theater works.

Since 2019, Kris has collaborated closely with music theater director Lisa Pottstock. Alongside artistic work, Kris is part of the curatorial team for Hörbar, an association for experimental music in Hamburg, and starting September 2025, will assume an academic position at the Sound Arts and Creative Music Technology Lab at Musikhochschule Lübeck.

Along with sound artists Agita Reke and J. „Mo’ong” Santoso Pribadi, Kris takes part in a two-week-long residency programme ‘Kintai.Kitaip’, inviting its participants to explore the local soundscape along with Pauline Oliveros’ ideas of „sonic awareness”. An open interplay between “attention and awareness” becomes the starting point for the participants’ creative process.

Photo by Karin Weissenbrunnen