Bernd Friedmann

Bernd Friedmann
Friedman at Festival Pomladi in Ljubljana (2008)
Friedman at Festival Pomladi in Ljubljana (2008)
Background information
Birth nameBernd Friedmann
Also known as[see below]
Born1965 (age 58–59)
OriginCoburg, Germany
GenresElectronic, glitch, IDM, techno, experimental
Occupation(s)Musician, producer
Years active1978–present
LabelsVarious

Bernd Friedmann (also Burnt Friedman) (born 1965 in Coburg, Germany)[1] is a German musician and producer who works under a variety of project names in the fields of electronic music, 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 his projects have included:

Some More Crime (1990-1995, Friedmann and Frank Hernandez)
Drome (1991-1995, Friedmann and Frank Hernandez)
Nonplace Urban Field (1992-1997)
Flanger (1999-present, Friedmann and Atom Heart)
Nine Horses (2005-present, Friedmann and David Sylvian)

Friedmann's instruments include ambient noise and speech samples, analog synthesizers and organs, as well as toy piano, steel drum, kalimba, vibraphone, and melodica.

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

  1. ^ "BURNT FRIEDMAN is one of Germany's most long established and highly rated electronic musicians with a career spanning almost 40 years". ra.co. Resident Advisor. Retrieved 8 December 2023.