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Florian Bergmann

Florian Bergmann

Composer
Multi-instrumentalist
Performer

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Compositions

surfaces_mirrors
2023

Filterskizzen
2019/22

traces
2024

Perlug
2022

Respiro
2022

Capriccio
2022

Adventure Game
2021/22

al niente
2023

Bubbles
2021

upcoming Concerts

Date	Who	City	Venue	Country
11.01.2025	Hannes Zerbe Jazz Orchester	Rosa-Luxemburg-Konferenz	Berlin	DE
Time 12:00		Address Kopenhagener Str. 60-68
29.01.2025	Fo[u]r Alto	Loft	Köln	DE
Time 20:00		Address Wissmannstr. 30
06.03.2025	Fo[u]r Alto	Studioboerne45	Berlin	DE
Time 20:00		Address Börnestr. 43/45
17.10.2025	UnbedingT	Jazzstudio	Nürnberg	DE
Time 20:00		Address Paniersplatz 27

Releases

releases

Florian Bergmann – Alone Together

releases

Trio Transmitter – camera obscura

releases

Florian Bergmann – Cobalt Cluster

releases

Florian Bergmann – Rendez-Vous

releases

Kreuzberger Klarinettenkollektiv – aufgezogen

releases

Frank Gratkowski – 2 compositions

releases

UnbedingT – Tanzpalast

releases

Andreas Willers – The Goldman Variations

releases

Sven-Åke Johansson – Das Marschorchester

releases

Simon Kanzler – Double Identity

releases

Pin Addix – The Chamber Momentum

releases

UnbedingT – Zirkus Bizarr

Projects

Trio Transmitter

contemporary music

Sonic Essence

contemporary music

Klangquadrat

Bubbles

Fo[u]r Alto

Projekte

7of8

jazz

HZJO

jazz

Circuit Training

UnbedingT

jazz

Perspectives

@florian.bergmann_composer

florian.bergmann_composer

#composer #saxophonist #clarinetist #performer #berlin

Looking forward to the Italien premiere of Filters

Looking forward to the Italien premiere of Filterskizzen I and IV as part of a beautiful piano solo program by @alb_agt ! Tonight at @numacontemporary , visual art exhibition by Christian Manuel Zanon.

#preparedpiano
#contemporarymusic
#schio

Structural analysis of the composition “Loops I” by Philippe Hurel. A very beautiful and fascinating piece!

perfect timing: right before the world premiere of

perfect timing: right before the world premiere of my piece “traces” for alto sax, piano and percussion at Unerhörte Musik tonight, I finished a new composition for percussion duo - “trajectories IV” which will be part of a larger cycle for two pianos and percussionists! 😄

Some pictures from our recording session at auslan

Some pictures from our recording session at ausland in February. Listen to the product of our intense and inspiring work: Alone Together! Link in bio!

This week I’d like to share with you my thoughts

This week I’d like to share with you my thoughts on my composition „Filterskizze III“ for prepared piano solo. To listen to the full album click on the link in bio!

Plucking the strings with the fingernail or a guitar pick is another classical playing technique of the contemporary piano. My aim was to explore the tonal possibilities of this technique as far as possible and to create a very strongly differentiated sound world within this narrow restriction.
Globally, the music moves in one long movement from the highest to the lowest register of the piano, with various uses of the plectrum coming into play: always present is the plucking of the strings behind or in front of the mutes (the latter results in a more metallic sound), which can be replaced by tapping in the first sections.
In addition, glissandi occur in all registers and dynamics – in the middle register in combination with the mute tapping of chords on the keyboard, whereby these chords emerge quasi as an echo from a rather dry glissando. Glissandi are also used behind the tailpieces, where they produce an irrational, shimmering sound.
A completely newly developed playing technique is the slow movement of the pick with high pressure on a low bass string, causing the pick to jump from groove to groove of the string and producing a perforated, aggressive sound.

#preparedpiano
#pizzicato
#contemporarymusic

Followling up on last week’s post, here’re som

Followling up on last week’s post, here’re some notes on my composition „Filterskizze II“. Link again in bio!!

@alb_agt
@trio_transmitter
#preparedpiano
#contemporarymusic

"More than ten years ago, a fellow percussionist drew my attention to the possibility of using small vibrators, as they are known from the erotic field, as sound generators for percussion cymbals. The transfer to the inner piano was obvious, but first several technical problems had to be solved in order to get sufficient control over the vibrators and to avoid damaging the instrument. I found the solution in self-made shells consisting of a rubber ring with a bottom made of various thin materials.
The shells allow any number of vibrators (in practice I use up to six) to be placed in the piano, whereby the vibrators are fixed to an approximately determined interval range in which they can move freely – and thus somewhat unpredictably.
Because of the inherent indeterminacy of the vibrators, which, in addition to their fascinating tonal potential, is what makes them so appealing, I have chosen a predominantly graphic form of notation for this piece, illustrating the positions and movements of the vibrators in the piano."

Here are some thoughts on my composition „Filter

Here are some thoughts on my composition „Filterskizze I“. Check out the link in bio to listen to the full record!!

@alb_agt
@trio_transmitter
#preparedpiano
#contemporarymusic

The starting point was a research into harmonics, which can be produced by tapping the corresponding vibration nodes on the low strings of the piano. Established for a long time in the contemporary piano repertoire, two aspects have always remained unsatisfactory to me: firstly, the difficulty for the player to find the right spot on the string reliably and quickly, and secondly - related to this - the impossibility to play fast or more complex musical phrases exclusively with harmonics.
After experimenting for a while, I developed what I call harmonics bars. These are thin wooden bars that are coated with adhesive rubber at the bottom and stick to the strings in such a way that they reliably produce the desired harmonics when struck normally on the keyboard. The sonic result is not exactly the same as with the hand-fingered harmonics, but they sound somewhat more subdued, drier, more percussive. It is precisely from this characteristic that I derived the basic idea of Filterskizze I, which essentially plays with the development of repetitive rhythmic cells.
The bars are arranged in such a way that the resulting harmonics (as fifths, thirds or sevenths) are almost all in the range of a fourth between g#3 and c#4. In addition, the strings in the middle register are damped, so that in this narrow tonal space each tone is present four times in different timbre and microtonal tuning. The composition gradually probes this tonal space with increasing complexity and intensity.

After almost two years of dedicated work - develop

After almost two years of dedicated work - developing ideas, trying out sounds and preparations, composing, practicing, recording, editing and so on - it’s finally here: @trio_transmitter ‘s new album „Alone Together“ with seven solo compositions by Florian Bergmann. Available on YouTube and on all music streaming platforms. Check out the link in bio!

@florian.bergmann_composer - composition, bass clarinet
@benediktbindewald - violin
@alb_agt - piano
@gorbatnoam - video recording and editing
@sound_engineer_berlin - audio recording and editing
@simonquasar - artwork

recorded at @ausland.berlin

After some weeks of intense work I’m happy to ha

After some weeks of intense work I’m happy to have completed “surfaces_mirrors” - a composition for prepared piano and percussion. To be premiered at Unerhörte Musik in September 2023!Commissioned by @masabrinama

A short excerpt of my composition “Filterskizze

A short excerpt of my composition “Filterskizze I”. I’m very much looking forward to the upcoming recording of the complete cycle of solo pieces, including all five Filterskizzen for prepared piano, “Respiro” for bass clarinet and “Perlug” for one talking violinist.

@trio_transmitter
@alb_agt
@benediktbindewald

#contemporarymusic
#preparedpiano
#soloinstruments

This week I started the composition of a bass clar

This week I started the composition of a bass clarinet solo called “Respiro” (breath). It’s gonna be a SLOW piece!! #bassclarinet #breathing #contemporarymusic

I just completed a piece that’s somewhat alien t

I just completed a piece that’s somewhat alien to me for two reasons: first, it’s inspired by electronic dance music - a kind of music I’ve never particularly enjoyed being subjected to - and second, it exclusively uses graphical notation. That’s something I’ve never done before and which I struggled with quite a bit in the beginning but finally became really fun.
The piece is called „Capriccio“ and will be premiered by the Trio Transmitter in Berlin at December 1st. Supported by initiative neue musik berlin. #graphicalnotation #experimentalmusic #initiativeneuemusik

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Florian Bergmann
Berthelsdorfer Str. 9
12043 Berlin DE

Florian Bergmann

Komponist Multiinstrumentalist Performer

Komponist Multiinstrumentalist Performer

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