Christian Kesten

Christian Kesten is a German sound and performance artist whose work explores the boundaries of notation, instruction, and sound-producing action. Active in Berlin's experimental music and performance art scene, he develops pieces that use text, diagrams, and other notational forms to generate performances whose relationship to the score is itself an object of investigation.

His work connects to the tradition of extended notation and text scores developed by figures including Cornelius Cardew, Christian Wolff, and the Fluxus artists, while adapting these approaches to the specific concerns of contemporary sound and performance practice.