Ni Vu Ni Connu is releasing an exquisite triple LP album to celebrate the 60th birthday of Echtzeitmusik composer-performer Burkhard Beins. All recordings were made in March/April 2023 at Morphine Raum and then subsequently distilled into the eight tracks of this release.
In addition to the performing Andrea Ermke, Axel Dörner, Quentin Tolimieri, Tony Elieh and Marta Zapparoli, Beins’ other duo partners for Eight Duos were Andrea Neumann (inside-piano), Anaïs Tuerlinckx (grand piano) and Michael Renkel (spanish guitar). Accompanying the music, its cover presents a duo portrait photo series by Carina Khorkhordina.
Throughout March/April 2023, Burkhard Beins performed in eight different duo combinations across four concerts, each of these being a double bill. Some of those duos were long established while others were more recent encounters. In each duo Beins was featured on a different instrument or at least variation of an instrumentation, ranging from drum kit via acoustic and electro-acoustic percussion to various kinds of live electronics and bass guitar.
Burkhard Beins, 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 sound objects. Furthermore, he works with live-electronics/analog synthesizers, plays bass guitar, and has conceived several sound installations.
Since the late 1980s Beins performs at internationally renowned venues and festivals throughout Europe, America, Australia, Asia and has released more than 70 CDs and LPs by now. Next to his solo work he is a member of several ensembles like Sawt Out, Polwechsel, Marmalsana, Trio Sowari, Erosão Percussion Trio, Slurge, Zone Null, or Splitter Orchester and also works with composer-performers such as Sven-Åke Johansson, Keith Rowe, Ignaz Schick, Chris Abrahams, John Butcher, or Lotte Anker.
