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John Berndt

John Berndt (born 1967) is a musician and organizer based in Baltimore, Maryland who is best known as an extended-technique experimental saxophonist and electronic musician. He participated in the second wave of the neoism cultural movement, the first wave having consisted of Monty Cantsin, Istvan Kantor, and Blaster Al Ackerman, amongst many others. Berndt's participation in Neoism began after the 1st eight Neoist Apartment Festivals (1980 to 1984) during the "64th International Neoist Apartment Festival" in 1986 in Berlin and subsequently in the "One Millionth" in New York City in late 1988 and the "13th" in Paris in 1994. Conceptual work by Berndt was shown at Documenta X, in Kassel, in 1997.

The Montreal Concert "A Gift"

By John Berndt

Label: Challenge Jazz
Released: 2013

New Logic For Old Saxophones

By John Berndt

Label: Challenge Jazz
Released: 2011

John Berndt: Boston, USA, December 1, 2010

by Gordon Marshall
December 7, 2010

John Berndt, Joshua Jefferson, Forbes Graham and Flandrew FleisenbergFleisenberg Floft, Fort Point ChannelBoston, MADecember 1, 2010 Alto saxophonist John Berndt of Baltimore, Maryland is a master geometer, and he applies this sensibility to sound. There is a solipsistic quality to his efforts--at work even when he is playing with others--which ...

John Berndt NYC Experimental Concert Series

March 26, 2009

Three nights of music in Soho as part of the first retrospective gallery exhibition of works by the improviser, experimental composer, film-maker, writer, and installation artist John Berndt. All taking place at: Emily Harvey Foundation Gallery 537 Broadway at Spring Street - 2nd floor New York, NY 10012 ...

John Berndt: The Private Language Problem

by Mark Corroto
September 18, 2008

Has anyone ever suggested that an activity in which you are participating is an attempt to “reinvent the wheel"? Listening to the experimental instruments and electro-acoustic manipulations of sound artist John Berndt leads to the conclusion that he has it in mind to scrap music as you know it, for an entirely new world of sound. ...

The Montreal Concert

By John Berndt

Label: Challenge Jazz
Released: 1999