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Hy, I'm Beatdenker, a guitar player, composer, producer, (rhythm) researcher, tutor, thinker, (festival) organizer, postcontemporary, subcultural creator, feminist, real-utopist, motivator, anti-racist ally, traveler, passionated laugher, part of SUBWATER BEATS collective and privileged inhabitant of planet earth.
I believe in pluralism, doing things together, experiments, multiperspectivity, celebrating and appreciating life, connecting collectives, exchange and random stuff.
Live I played e.g. at:
Fusion Festival Lärz, Red Light Radio Amsterdam, What is Music Festival Burgos, Jazzfestival Freiburg, KIM Festival Berlin, SeaNaps Festival Leipzig, SURfF Festival Berlin, Rudolstadt Festival, Jazzkollektiv Nights Berlin, Bandstand Festival Hellerau, BRN Festival Dresden, SampleMusicFestival Berlin
About the music:
After my debut album "Too Tall To Dance" I'm still pushing two things. First is making the most complexistic rhythms sounding as bouncy as possible. I developed a lot of my rhythmic influences (Ferneyhough, BJ Manjunath, Miles Okazaki, Eric Schäfer) further into my own rhythmic systems, where I'm now able to imagine and concetely play more complex rhythms like triple nested tuplets in a polyrhythm like 31 over 17, means I play another 5 over e.g. certain 7 hits out of the 31 and then I play another 5 over certain e.g. 3 hits of the 5, haha. The idea is to change speeds very quickly, but with a completely awareness of what I'm doing. But still I'm mixing this approach with a more open Jazz influenced kind of improvising.
Second is to mix that knowledge with dance music, to create Future Dance Steps, means checking out how people need to move differently within my live sets. It's the coolest pleasure if people come after a concert and tell me that they moved their bodies in a way they never did before. Bäm, haha.
And a last thing, my three slogans: ethic endless fun, imagination unlimited, demanding power from below, means: have as much fun as possible without hurting someone else (especially marginalized people), imagine the most way-out things within your work or passion, push your creativity as much as possible to reach something new and join at least one political, social, plural economic, future-orientated movement and fight for a better "world".
Have fun listening. Peace out!