Burkhard Beins
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Living in Berlin since 1995, Beins is active in experimental music
Experimental music
Experimental music refers, in the English-language literature, to a compositional tradition which arose in the mid-20th century, applied particularly in North America to music composed in such a way that its outcome is unforeseeable. Its most famous and influential exponent was John Cage...
and electroacoustic improvisation
Electroacoustic improvisation
Electroacoustic improvisation is a style of music that incorporates aspects of both electroacoustic music and free improvisation.-Origins:Live electronics has been part of the sound art world since the 1930s with the early works of John Cage...
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Since the late 1980s he has appeared on international festivals, concerts and tours throughout Europe and overseas. He is a member of several ensembles like Perlonex, Activity Center, Polwechsel
Polwechsel
Polwechsel is a musical group founded in Vienna, Austria in 1993.Their music has mostly straddled a line between contemporary music and free improvisation, and is characterized by quiet volume, sustained drones, and slowly-developing structures....
, Trio Sowari, Phosphor, The Sealed Knot, BBB and also works with Keith Rowe
Keith Rowe
Keith Rowe is an English free improvisation tabletop guitarist and painter. Rowe is a founding member of both the hugely influential AMM in the mid-1960s and M.I.M.E.O. Having trained as a visual artist, Rowe's paintings have been featured on most of his own albums...
, Sven-Åke Johansson, John Tilbury
John Tilbury
John Tilbury is a British pianist. He is considered one of the foremost interpreters of Morton Feldman's music, and since 1980 has been a member of the free improvisation group AMM.- Early life and education :...
, Charlemagne Palestine
Charlemagne Palestine
Charlemagne Palestine is an American minimalist composer, performer, and visual artist...
and many others. At the same time Beins is also active in the area of sound installation
Sound installation
Sound installation is an intermedia and time based art form. It is an expansion of an art installation in the sense that it includes the sound element and therefore the time element...
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He has released more than 30 CDs and LPs on labels like 2:13 Music, Zarek, Erstwhile Records
Erstwhile Records
Erstwhile Records is an independent record label devoted to free improvisation, particularly the electroacoustic variety. Erstwhile was founded by Jon Abbey in 1999, and his knowledgeable personality and tastes are closely identified with the label.Characteristic label artists include guitarist...
, Hat Hut, Potlatch, Absinth or Confront. His first Solo-CD "Disco Prova" has been released in 2007, followed by "Structural Drift", both combining field recordings,percussion material and electronic devices with digital multitracking.
Selected discography
- Activity Center: Lohn & Brot (Absinth CD, 2010)
- Beins, Capece, Davies, Nakamura: SLW (Org. Music from Thessaloniki CD, 2009)
- Burkhard Beins: Structural Drift (Künstlerhäuser Worpswede CD, 2009)
- Phosphor II (Potlatch CD, 2009)
- Polwechsel & John Tilbury: Field (Hat Hut, CD 2009)
- Perlonex & Charlemagne Palestine: It Ain't Necessarily So (Zarek 2CD, 2009)
- Trio Sowari: shortcut (Potlatch, CD 2008)
- Burkhard Beins: Disco Prova (Absinth, CD 2007)
- Perlonex.Tensions w/Keith Rowe + Charlemagne Palestine (Nexsound 2CD, 2006)
- Polwechsel: Archives of the North (Hat Hut, CD 2006)
- Baghdassarians/Baltschun/Beins (Absinth Records, CD 2006)
- Trio Sowari: Three Dances (Potlatch CD 105, 2005)
- Activity Center & Phil Minton (Absinth Records, CD 2005)
- Keith Rowe/Burkhard Beins: Live at Amplify (ErstLive oo1, CD 2004)
- The Sealed Knot: Unwanted Object (Confront Collectors Series 1, CD 2004)
- Berlin Drums - 4 Solos: Beins/Buck/Heather/Schaefer (4 x 3" CDR, Absinth, 2004)
- Beins/Marwedel/Vorfeld: Misiiki (Rossbin CD o13, 2003)
- Beins/Johansson: Santa Fé (...im Raumschiff Zitrone Berlin) (LP, Eventuell 02, 2003)
- The Sealed Knot: Surface/Plane (Meniscus CD o12, 2003)
- Burkhard Beins/Andrea Neumann: Lidingö (Erstwhile CD o26, 2002)
- Phosphor (Potlatch P501 CD, 2002)
- Perlonex: Peripherique (CD, Zarek 07, 2001)
- Burkhard Beins/Keith Rowe: Grain (CD, Zarek 06, 2001)
- Burkhard Beins/John Bisset: Chapel (2:13 Music CD o12, 2001)
- Activity Center: Möwen & Moos (2:13 Music CD oo8/oo9, 1999, limited edition)
- Yarbles (Hatology 510, CD 1997)
- Nunc (2:13 Music CD oo2, 1996)