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Tilman Ehrhorn is a producer, composer, saxophone/reed player and sound designer.
  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.
  Lately 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, 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.

ELECTRONIC MUSIC

Solo project with samplers and synthesizers as source of all sound. A major focus is the development of several distinct elements of sound and their function within the composition. Most of the sounds are based on micro fragments of samples, which are designed and edited to create a pad or a rhythmical sound. Sometimes the sounds develop through modulation of sine waves.
 The concept behind all the compositions is defined through a basic layer of sound, or a rhythmical pattern to which elementary sounds are added on different levels. These elements consist of sound material, which was found incidentally, or is made from remains of samples, which acquire new meaning by extensive editing and design.
The polyrhythmical shift of some percussive, minimal sound fragments creates a subtly changing rhythmical flow, which does not interfere with the structure of the loops in the perceived foreground, but rather enhances the entire ensemble sound.
The manipulation of the original sound material allows it to fulfill new and unexpected functions in terms of the compositional development of sounds. Thus, a modulated sound pad could -when looped- become more rhythmically
structured and a series of clicks could be perceived as a sheet of sound.
  In addition to influences from contemporary electronic music, modern jazz is an important source of inspiration for the compositions. 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 structure of the tunes is fundamental to their atmosphere. A dynamic process is developed within longer sections, which are defined by repeated minimal phrases with constant small changes and seemingly incidental cuts.
The warmth and stillness of the overall sound is also characterized by the modal, continuous melodic and harmonic development.

TILMAN EHRHORN decided to leave the sax in the case and did some solo electronics instead of for both his first record releases

WERKEN is an a.k.a of Tilman´s other electronic project, presenting an ambient sounding and experimental side of his producing skills, all sounds are created on a nord modular synth

releases

solo

• 2003 Tilman Ehrhorn - Task/Mille Plateaux (EFA)

• 2005 Tilman Ehrhorn - Heading For The Open Spaces/Resopal Schallware (Neuton + Roughtrade)

• exp. February 2009 Tilman Ehrhorn - Past Utopia/Neo Ouija

compilations

• 2004 Clicks & Cuts 4 Compilation/Milleplateauxmedia (Hart)

• 2007 Anniversary Compilation/Natural Media

• 2008 Remote Thoughts/Dalaki

• 2008 Diaspora: Cottage Industries 5/Neo Ouija

remixes

• 2007 MAQ - Indiejazz/Jazz4Ever

• 2007 Educa Lux- Few/Height Mansion

collaboration

• 2005 Alony-Unravelling/Intuition

• 2006 Julia Hülsmann Trio with Roger Cicero - Good Morning Midnight/ACT

• 2007 Berlin Voices - States Of Mind/Van Dyck



SOUNDDESIGN

creating preset-sounds as well as producing demosongs for for miscellanious software synths of Berlin-based company Native Instruments such as MASSIVE, ABSYNTH 4 and FM 8, doing some structural work for the development of controller software KORE 2

JAZZ

BLUEPRINT STAGE was a jazzquartet, lead by drummer Nadja Baroudi, Tilman was playing in and writing for during the late 90´s, the band won the national "Jugend Jazzt" award in 1999 and had a tour through several countries of the Carribean, sponsored and organized by the German Ministry Of Foreign Affairs

THE Q FORMERLY KNOWN AS LUKE 5 was a quintet, lead by trumpetplayer Lukas Fröhlich, Tilman was performing with until the year of 2000, the band played many local gigs around Hamburg and was touring through Bulgaria to play on several jazz festivals

TILMAN EHRHORN QUINTETT was a modern jazz project, established during Tilman´s residence in Hamburg, the ensemble played lots of gigs in and out of town and won some local awards

NDR BIGBAND is the Bigband of the Northern German Broadcast placed in Hamburg, where Tilman is engaged occasionally -amazing guest stars like Wayne Shorter, Albert Mangelsdorff, Brian Blade a.o.

NILS WOGRAM SEPTET is a jazz ensemble, lead by star trombonist/composer Nils Wogram, Tilman is featured as a soloist and ensemble player, the band is regulary touring for gigs on jazz festivals all over Europe and is doing cd- and broadcast recordings a well

SOLID MINUTE is Tilman´s latest band project based in Berlin with psycehdelic and progressive rock influenced original compositions, just finsishing the first recording

Eva THÄRICHEN´s A NEW DAY Project is the group lead of Berlin-based singer Eva Thärichen, Tilman joined as a player and musical director, arranging most of the tunes as well as doing some electronic sounddesign and remix work

SIDEMAN engagements at several ensembles and big bands around the world

releases

• 1998 BuJazzO - Focus On Vocals/Mons Records

• 1998 Blueprint Stage -Puzzle/Mons Records

• 1998 Szene-Sampler`98 (Tilman Ehrhorn Quintett) - Jazz Made In Hamburg/Birdland Records

• 1999 The Q - Volume One /Tonbox

• 2000 Jazzhaus Orchestra Hamburg/Schoener-Hoeren

• 2003 Albert Mangelsdorff und die NDR-Bigband - Music For Jazz Orchestra/Skip Records

• 2003 Stefan Schultze Trio feat. Hanna Jursch u. Tilman Ehrhorn/Tonikum

• 2005 Nils Wogram Septet – Swing Moral/Enja

• 2007 Alejandro Sanchéz Nonett + 1 - Schärfe Einer Sekunde/Jazz4Ever



THEATER/CHANSON/SHOW

working at miscellaneous theater-, show- und musical productions, tv-and radio productions, such as Thalia Theater, Hamburg, Hamburger Kammerspiele, Theater Lübeck, Buddy - Das Musical, Pomp Duck & Circumstance and Berliner Ensemble

releases

• 2003 Geschwister Pfister - Have A Ball/Traumton

• 2004 Pigor singt, Benedikt Eichhorn muss begleiten Volumen 4/Tacheles!



MUSIC FOR RADIO PLAYS

commissioned to compose and work as a reedplayer for radio plays and audio books

releases

• 1999 Erich Kästner - Ein Mann gibt Auskunft/Deutsche Grammophon

• 1999 A. Jacobsson/S.Olsson - Berts gesammelte Katastrophen/Deutsche Grammophon

• 1999 A. Jacobsson/S.Olsson - Berts intime Katastrophen/Deutsche Grammophon

• 2001 Roddy Doyle - Das große Giggler Geheimnis/BMG Random House Audio

• 2002 Roddy Doyle - Rover rettet Weihnachten/BMG Random House Audio

• 2003 Henning Mankell - Vor dem Frost/Hörverlag

• 2005 Donna Leon – Beweise das es böse ist/ Hörverlag

• 2007 Die Dr3i - Drei Erzählungen/Lauscher Lounge