BURKHARD BEINS  - percussion, objects and live-electronics

born 1964 in Lower Saxony, 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 live-electronics, electro-acoustic instruments and devices. Since the late 1980's he is performing at internationally renowned venues and festivals throughout Europe, America, Australia and Asia as diverse as the LMC Festival (London), Darmstädter Ferienkurse, SKIF (St. Petersburg), Donaueschinger Musiktage, Musique Action (Nancy), ZKM (Karlsruhe), Kid Ailack Music Hall (Tokyo), Gaudeamus Festival (Amsterdam), Liquid Architecture (Australia), Taktlos (CH), Wien Modern, MoMA (New York), or Maerzmusik (Berlin). He is a member of groups like Perlonex, Activity Center, Polwechsel, Mensch Mensch Mensch, Phosphor, The Sealed Knot, and Splitter Orchester and also works with Keith Rowe, Sven-Åke Johansson, Chris Abrahams, Orm Finnendahl, John Tilbury, Charlemagne Palestine and many others.
Meanwhile he has released more than 40 CDs and LPs on labels like 2:13 Music, Zarek, Erstwhile, Hat Hut, Potlatch, Absinth or Confront. His first Solo-CD "Disco Prova" has been released in 2007 and combines field recordings and percussion material with digital multitracking, followed in 2009 by "Structural Drift", a result of a sound art residency at Künstlerhäuser Worpswede, based on e-bowed and propelled zither, analogue synth, objects and live-electronics.
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.

"Burkhard Beins is best known as one of the most distinctive percussionists in European free music."
- The Wire -

„Burkhard Beins has proven to be one of those players delivering consistently intriguing releases."
- Signal To Noise - 

„ ...simply one of the most imaginative percussionists around, indeed making the tag 'percussionist' seem hopelessly deficient." 
- All Music Guide -

http://www.burkhardbeins.de