Burnt Friedman

Bernd Friedmann is a German musician and producer who works under a variety of project names in the fields of Electronica, Dub and Jazz. Friedmann was raised in Kassel where he studied painting, performance and video at the Kunsthochschule Kassel from 1984 to 1990. His first recordings of found and self-built instruments, done with Wolfram Der Spyra from 1978 to 1982, were released under the name TOXH in 1989. Since then the ever-growing list of projects includes: Some More Crime (1990 - 1995, Friedmann and Frank Hernandez) Drome (1991 - 1995, Friedmann and Frank Hernandez) Nonplace Urban Field (1992 - 1997) Flanger (1999 - , Friedmann and Atom Heart) Nine Horses (2005 - , Friedmann and David Sylvian) Friedmann's music defies easy categorisation. His instruments include ambient noise and speech samples, analogue synthesizers and organs, as well as toy piano, steeldrum, kalimba, vibraphone or Melodica. Over the years his trademark sound became easily recognizable even in his remix work for other artists. Often complex polyrhythmic patterns stand beside long passages without audible drums.

Since 2000 Friedmann runs his own "nonplace" label. He lives in Berlin.