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Berndt began as a composer with a distinctly "inhuman" style and severe set of conceptual preoccupations, but in an unusual development process expanded his sensibility in a variety of contradictory directions, such that his work today is so aesthetically varied as to seem the work of a number of unrelated artists. In 1991 Berndt had heard saxophonist Jack Wright, who became his saxophone teacher, and as a result began to focus on developing his abilities in spontaneous instrumental performance to a high degree. His rigorously strange aesthetic then broadened to incorporate lessons from a variety of clashing modalities: jazz, Indian and African music, and extreme modernist instrumental technique. In this transformation, he was also highly influenced by another collaborator and teacher, the philosopher Henry Flynt, whose critique of the western computational mind-set greatly enabled Berndt's own critical path. A Short Statement About John Berndt's Music for People Already Familiar with it. Someone wrote this about John Berndt on Wikipedia. A small sampling of John Berndt's curatorial/travel projects that happen to be online: SPEAKEROIDS, electro-acoustic installation with Samuel Burt (ongoing) Berndt / Breen Italian Tour, May 1-11th, 2004 EXHIBITIONS CURATED AT ARTSCAPE: OddStruments | Sound/Shift |Exotic-Hypnotic '06 Other web sites where John Berndt appears in various roles :
WWW.HIGHZERO.ORG | WWW.REDROOM.ORG WWW.RECORDED.COM | WWW.BERNDTGROUP.NET WWW.HENRYFLYNT.ORG | JOHN BERNDT INTERVIEW |