Friedemann Dähn was born in Tübingen, Germany, in1958. He is a cellist, both acoustic and electric, and a sound artist. He received his music degree in Düsseldorf, Germany, graduating with honours. At first he worked mainly in the field of classical music, chamber music, as a solo cellist with the Württemberg Philharmonic Orchestra, and as a soloist. In the meantime, his major focus is on electronic and experimental music, jazz, improvisation, composition and sound art.
He has been on tour in China, Russia, the USA, Brazil and in all the major centers of music in Europe. Between 1990 and 1993 he played with the renown Modern Ensemble in Frankfurt and had the opportunity of working with such artists as K.-H. Stockhausen, Ornette Coleman and Frank Zappa. Since 2004 he has been working as a professor for sound forms and sound design at the University of Arts in Schwäbisch Hall, Germany. In 2003, Fried Dähn was the Artist in Residence at the Cleveland Institute of Art in Ohio, USA. He was once again a guest in the USA in 2004, this time at the 16th Subtropics Experimental Music Festival in Miami.

His constant search for new forms of expression and his vision, creativity and inspiration which he has shared with artists from around the world, led to the founding of CAMP. In 1999 Dähn and the guitarist Thomas Maos founded CAMP, an international Festival for Sound Art and Visual Music which is held every two years at different locations.