Arvid Kraft’s music departs from two main concepts: beauty and unconventional collaborations. Collaborative creative processes are important to Kraft’s way of working, and can be with everything from other people to generative algorithms/AI, but also abstract things such as philosophical concepts. The interest in beauty derives from a very instinctually based, but not-yet-defined personal ideology. However, deep musical thought, thoroughly considered aesthetic ideals, and trust in instinctual and intuitive thinking, lies at the core of his idea of beauty.

Kraft’s music also touches upon questions regarding odd coalitions, narratives, identity, desire, spirituality and imitation/mutation. In practice, Kraft experiments with these concepts and questions through long forms, live-electronics, textuality and voice theory, in conjunction with musical styles such as chamber music, electroacoustic music and interdisciplinary performance.