‘Tripping With Nils Frahm’: 4 Sweaty Berlin Nights Captured Onscreen

 

 

 

In the new concert film Tripping with Nils Frahm, directed by Benoit Toulemonde, a small figure in a t-shirt and flat cap bounces around a Berlin stage — playing pianos and towering analog synthesizers, flipping switches, turning knobs and massaging keyboards in front of rapt audiences.

German composer Nils Frahm creates songs that fuse electronic and classical music. He’s one of the stars of a new wave of what’s been described as neoclassical, a movement takes traditional instruments like grand pianos out of concert halls and into clubs and indie theaters.

 

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