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John Berndt
As the founder of, and a member of the Red Room -- a collective of artists and improvising musicians in the spirit of the Los Angeles Free Music Society that is now called The High Zero Foundation -- Berndt co-curates the Red Room experimental performance series, which has presented weekly events since 1996, as well as the High Zero Festival of Experimental Improvised Music, a large annual improvised music festival begun in 1999 in Baltimore known for its qualification that improvising performers play in ad-hoc groups organized specifically for the festival. This group became a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, High Zero Foundation, in 2001.
Berndt is the musical creator of the Relabi style. He is also director of the Multiphonic Choir[2], Second Nature improvising orchestra, and performance-art group Geodesic Gnome.
In 2009, The Emily Harvey Foundation in NYC held a retrospective show of Berndt's visual, language, audio and installation work. A festival of Berndt's music including collaborations with Elliot Sharp, Peter Zummo, Katt Hernandez, and Second Nature was held concurrently.]
Berndt runs the "Recorded" record label which has issued twenty-three CDs of experimental music, including several discs by Berndt's collaborator Henry Flynt. Recorded was the first CD publisher of the music of Henry Flynt, issuing four CDs of his music to date.
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John Berndt: Boston, USA, December 1, 2010
by Gordon Marshall
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 makes for astounding solo forays and more or less interesting collective endeavors, depending on whom he is playing with. At Fleisenberg Floft in South ...
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All About Jazz
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 Friday April 17th, 7PM-10PM, free Opening reception and free concert. three very different collaborations between John Berndt and four legendary experimental improvisers. John Berndt ...
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--Gordon Marshall, AllAboutJazz