dalaki // music & art label

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.

Graduated with a music degree from colleges in The Netherlands and in Germany, he has collaborated with Ensembles like NDR Bigband, Hamburger Sinfoniker, L'Atelier d'Orchestre and with musicians like Wayne Shorter, Brian Blade, Nils Wogram, Albert Mangelsdorff etc. and institutions like Goethe Institut, Auswärtiges Amt (German Office Of Foreign Affairs). 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.

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. 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.

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.