Name: Giovanni Raabe aka BRNJSMIN
Nationality: German
Occupation: Producer, performer, drummer, composer
Current release: BRNJSMIN's new album Büro of Music is out via Verydeeprecords. Giovanni will present the music live at Soft Spot Nürnberg on December 12th 2025.
Shoutouts: Verydeeprecords, La Double Vie, Red On + Subrihanna, Djonni Laser, elkks and Gloria de Oliveira (to name a few).
Topic I am passionate about but rarely get to talk about: Please start engaging with your local music and art scene and maybe even start organizing events yourself. We need these community spaces to celebrate sound and art and humanity together!

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When it comes to experiencing strong emotions as a listener, which albums, performances, and artists come to mind?

I usually get goosebumps listening to blast beats live or heavy bass. But it can also be any kind of authentic emotional human expression on stage.

When I perform myself - the song “Vackuum“ really hits.



There can be many different kinds of emotions in art – soft, harsh, healing, aggressive, uplifting and many more. Which do you tend to feel drawn to most?

I deeply enjoy the softness of some hyper pop records or the bass induced euphoria overdose of EDM, the punch and heaviness of certain metal bands and a good portion of humor, strangeness and melancholia.

It depends on the season, phase of my life, amount of stress and vitamin D and can be any emotional quality.

For Büro of Music, what kind of emotions were you looking to get across?

While working on Büro of Music I focused on a certain tenderness, calm, (again) humor and a light melancholia.

But also an open and hard to identify atmosphere that points to a variety of emotions and a sense of mystery.



How do you capture the emotions you want to get across in the studio?

Ideally by being concentrated, feeling, trusting your ears & guts, taking a step back, listening again.

Or the total opposite. 🎶

What role do factors like volume, effects like distortion, amplification, and production in general for in terms of creating the emotions, energies or impressions you want?

Maybe the biggest role. I feel like many emotions in my music are transported via the texture, choice of instrument and sound aesthetic in general.

Of course always combined with chords, rhythms, tempos, and the personality, mood, focus and musical upbringing of the listeners.



In terms of emotions, what changes when you're performing live on stage, with an audience present, compared to the recording stage?

As I perform the songs way louder than I listen to them at home, especially the bass frequencies hit harder and I feel an immediate responsibility for everything that happens musically.

What kind of feedback have you received from listeners or concert audiences in terms of the experience that your music and/or performances have had on them?

A spectrum of feedbacks: from perceiving the music as calming to unsettling, from emotionally moving to too abstract or too electronic for others.

Would you say that you prefer to stay in control to be able to shape the emotions or do you surrender to them and allow the music to take over? Who, ultimately has control during a live performance?

Ultimately the music itself, the sound system, the acoustics of the space I perform in and the subjective perception of the listener are in control.

I offer what I prepared and my creative instincts of the moment. The rest is far beyond my control.

The emotions that music is able to generate can be extremely powerful. How, do you think, can artists make use of this power to bring about change in the world?

Creating warm and welcoming spaces of community and culture might be a good start.

Bring people together and establish the human values you want to see in the world.