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KleinTones: Music Beyond Categories
The complete channel contains music, art films, historical films, my own travel footage and visual experiments.
Music in Images
Videos & Music Films
KleinTones now contains several hundred videos. Rather than duplicating the entire channel, this page presents a curated selection of larger music, art and film projects. Short YouTube uploads remain on YouTube.
This Website
The Larger Works
bernd-klein.net focuses on standalone films and musically substantial projects rather than every individual upload.
Recent Major Projects
Hamburg · My Footage
Hamburg — Speicherstadt, Elbphilharmonie & Harbour
My own Hamburg footage from evening into night, accompanied by “Summer on Fire”.
Generative City · 4K
Summer on Fire — A City Built by Music
An imaginary city is built directly from the music.
Generative · Fireworks
Music-Reactive Fireworks — Dance of the Mountains
Symphonic music drives generative fireworks above a mountain landscape.
Generative · Particles
Music Becomes Motion — Lina’s Gentle World
Thousands of particles react to energy, frequency bands and dynamics.
Claude Monet · 4K
Lina’s Gentle World — Water Lilies
Monet’s water lilies and gardens with music I composed for Lina.
Vincent van Gogh · 4K
Vincent van Gogh — 60 Masterpieces
A journey of more than two hours through 60 paintings with original music.
Vincent van Gogh · 4K
The King and the Three Castles
A second major Van Gogh film with its own musical and visual dramaturgy.
Elbphilharmonie · 12 Minutes
Elbphilharmonie Hamburg Inside & Out
Nine years of my own visits and footage combined with original music.
Chamber Music · Elbphilharmonie
Nocturne in F# Minor: Echoes of the Elbphilharmonie
The complete nearly twelve-minute nocturne as a music film.
Chamber Music
String Quartet in D Minor — Chromatic Ostinato
The standalone string quartet behind the Lovis Corinth film.
Caspar David Friedrich · Five-Part 4K Series
Five Journeys Through Silence and Light
63 paintings in five thematic films with more than two hours of original music.
J. M. W. Turner · Five-Part 4K Series
Turner — Light, Sea, Mountains and the Modern World
The completed series moves through sea and storm, fire and steam, cities in light, mountains and architecture, and Turner’s late freedom of light and colour. An additional Turner film is linked separately.
- Part 1 — Seas, Storms and Shipwrecks
- Part 2 — Fire, Steam and the Modern World
- Part 3 — Venice, Rome and Zurich in Light and Mist
- Part 4 — Mountains, Castles and Stonehenge
- Part 5 — The Dissolution of Light | Lakes, Waterfalls and Ruins in 4K
- Additional Turner film — Where the Dawn Begins (not part of the series)
Nature & Places
Antarctica · 4K
Emperor Penguins in Antarctica — Beauty in the Cold
Emperor penguins in Antarctica with a remastered soundtrack.
Hamburg · Elbphilharmonie
Inside & Out — 9 Years of Visits
Architecture, harbour and concert hall from many of my own visits.
French Alps
Aiguille du Midi & Mont Blanc
High-alpine images from the French Alps accompanied by my music.
Other Audiovisual Works
Film · 2026
When the Door Finally Opens
A standalone longer film about music, expectation and visual storytelling.
Film · 2026
Fear Has Reason … But Not Always
An audiovisual work about perception, fear and what images lead us to expect.
Short Film · 2026
The Mystery Beyond the Door
A short cinematic precursor to “When the Door Finally Opens”.
Abstract Film · 2025
The Shape of Returning
Geometric forms in a film about society, collapse and renewal.
Hilma af Klint
Here Comes Lina
Brass, saxophones and Hilma af Klint’s visionary paintings.
Art & Music
Art Films
Monet, Van Gogh, Friedrich, Turner, Corinth, Degas, Hilma af Klint and more.
Generative
Music-Reactive Visuals
Particles, fireworks, fractals and imaginary architecture react to music or mathematical structure.