BARNIR — Composer
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Slow piano music · From Amsterdam MMXXVI

Some things only arrive
when you stop trying to hear them.

I am
Barnier GeerlingPianist · Composer · From Amsterdam
Listening to
Jóhannsson · Frahm · ArnaldsOn repeat, for years
Heard
Millions of timesAcross the world. Grateful.
I —— About

I'm Barnier.

I make slow piano music in Amsterdam — acoustic instruments and synths, woven together so the palette feels like one moving thing. I'm trying to put feelings somewhere they can live.

I started composing at nine, on an Amiga 500. Decades later I'm still doing the same thing — only with better tools, and a clearer sense of what I want it to feel like.

The pieces here were written through a few years of love, loss, and learning to accept what I couldn't hold. Some of them are still hard for me to listen to. Some have become friends.

Somehow, this music has been played millions of times around the world. I still find that unexpected. I'm grateful, in a way that's hard to put in a sentence.

Barnier Geerling — signature Amsterdam · 2026
Based
AmsterdamThe Netherlands
Started
Age nineOn an Amiga 500
Now
A studio I lovePracticing Zen
Coming
A new releaseSlowly
II —— Recordings

Three pieces. Three moments.

№ 03

The Unfolding of DestinyThe bittersweet moment I accepted my fate — and watched it unfold.

MMXXII
№ 02

Clocks Cannot Tell Our TimeFor a kindred spirit. We were asking — how much time do we have left?

MMXXI
№ 01

This Must Not EndWritten as a love was coming undone. Melancholy, grief — and a quiet wish for it not to end.

MMXXI
III —— Listen

Press play.

Spotify · Live player Top tracks · Updated automatically
№ 01 Spotify Streaming · Primary № 02 Apple Music Streaming · Lossless № 03 YouTube Music Streaming · Video № 04 Deezer Streaming · Hi-Fi
IV —— Write

Say hi.

If something here moved you, write to me. About a project you're working on, a song that found you, or just to say hi.

I read everything.

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