Tilman Ehrhorn is an artist, who plays an important role in the young german jazz scene, working full time as saxophone player, composer and teacher. Besides teaching, giving jazz clinics and regular work in theater, tv-, radio-, and cd-productions he has established himself as a composer as well as a performing artist in clubs, festivals and concert tours all over the world. Before he graduated with a music degree from colleges in The Netherlands and in Germany he also took music lessons with highly reputed jazz artists in New York/USA as well as in Europe and took part in many workshops. He has collaborated with commissioners like Goethe Institut, Auswärtiges Amt (German Office Of Foreign Affairs), Landesmusikrat Niedersachsen (Council Of Music of the County of Lower Saxony), with Ensembles like NDR Bigband, Hamburger Sinfoniker, L’Atelier d’Orchestre and with musicians like Wayne Shorter, Brian Blade, Nils Wogram, Albert Mangelsdorff etc.
For the last two years he has concentrated his efforts on a solo project in electronic music, as well as continuing to work as a jazz musician. Since samplers and synthesizers are the only source of sound in his electronic music, it evolves in a completely different way to jazz and improvised music, the major focus being the development of the individual elements of sound and their function within the composition. Most of the sounds are based on micro fragments of designed samples. Loop structures of pads and percussive minimal sound clicks enhance the entire sound. The manipulation of the original sound material creates some new and unexpected functions of sounds. The sound design, which is developed in a non-conventional way, using elements of chance has similarities with the improvisational niveau of jazz and contemporary composed music, in which the mood and character play an important role. The warmth and stillness of the overall sound is also characterized by modal, continuous melodic and harmonic development.
Источник: lastfm.ru
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