Biography
Born in Dortmund, Germany, Krause moved to California, United States in 1976. He worked with early synthesizers and vocoders. He worked on almost thirty records and movies. Krause has a Master's degree from the Brooks institute in Santa Barbara, California (1996), and a honorary doctorate from the University of Essen, Germany (1999).
Today Kai Krause lives and works in the 1000-year-old castle Burg Rheineck near Bonn in Germany, which he called Byteburg. In February 2005, the "DEMO" conference acknowledged him as one of the Top 15 Innovators of the last 15 years.
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