|
Event Description/ Synopsis
|
The musical aesthetics of the Berlin composer/performer Burkhard Beins is informed by electronic and industrial music, musique concrete and free improvisation, and has been developed and shaped through his work with several long-standing experimental music groups in Berlin and on a transnational level. In his solo percussion pieces Beins works with a differentiated palette of sound and noise material often rather produced by friction than by actual drumming. Within an interplay of delicate shifts and sudden contrasts he is exploring the wide timbral and dynamic spectrum of his instruments.
Although he predefines fields of musical possibilities and a general formal shape before going on stage he deliberately leaves all decisions regarding the embodiment of sonic detail, dynamics and durations to the moment of the actual performance. Through this approach he is able to consider and involve characteristics of the specific room acoustics and the concert situation during the musical process.
|
|
Biography of performer
|
Burkhard Beins was born 1964 in Lower Saxony/Germany. He lives in Berlin since 1995. As a composer/performer working in the fields of experimental music and sound art he is known for his definitive use of percussion in combination with selected objects. Furthermore he works with analog synthesizers, live-electronics, and electro-acoustic instruments. Since the late 1980's he performs at internationally renowned venues and festivals throughout Europe, America, Asia, and Australia. He works solo or in collaboration with musicians like Keith Rowe, Sven-Åke Johansson, Andrea Neumann, Chris Abrahams, John Tilbury, or Charlemagne Palestine. He is also a member of several long-standing experimental music groups such as Activity Center, Polwechsel, Mensch Mensch Mensch, Perlonex, The Sealed Knot, Phosphor, Trio Sowari, and Splitter Orchester. Meanwhile he has released more than 40 CDs and LPs. Burkhard Beins gives lectures and workshops, has published several articles on music theory, and is a co-editor of the book „Echtzeitmusik Berlin - Self-Defining a Scene“ but also the curator of a follow-up 3CD compilation. Homepage: www.burkhardbeins.de
|