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German percussionist, born 22 October 1964.
Burkhard Beins is a composer-performer known for his work in experimental music and sound art, particularly for his innovative use of percussion combined with selected sound objects. Additionally, he works with live electronics and analog synthesizers, plays bass guitar, and has conceived several sound installations.
ALBUMS
Angharad Davies, Burkhard Beins
Meshes Of The Evening
2025, LP, Album, Ni-Vu-Ni-Connu
Burkhard Beins Drums, Percussion Andrea Neumann Inside Piano, Mixing Board Michael Renkel Strings, Percussion Quentin Tolimieri Grand Piano Andrea Ermke Mini Discs, Samples Anaïs Tuerlinckx Grand Piano Axel Dörner Trumpet Tony Elieh Bass Guitar, Electronics Marta Zapparoli
Eight Duos
2024, 3xLP, Ni-Vu-Ni-Connu
Anaïs Tuerlinckx / Jonas Gerigk / Burkhard Beins
Au Crépuscule
2023, CDr, 
,
, Free Improvisation
Beins* ⊳ Butcher* ⊳ Dafeldecker*
Induction
2022, Vinyl, 
,
, Free Improvisation
Gerard Lebik / Burkhard Beins
An Alphabet Of Fluctuation
2021, CD, Album, Inexhaustible Editions
Burkhard Beins / Gerard Lebik
Gliss
2020, File, WAV, Album, Zopan Records
Burkhard Beins
Outside In
2020
Clayton Thomas, Burkhard Beins
Rhythm Complication
2018, 4xFile, FLAC, Album, Remote Resonator, 
,
, Free Improvisation/Contemporary
Burkhard Beins / Lucio Capece / Martin Küchen / Paul Vogel
Fracture Mechanics
2017, CD, Album, Mikroton Recordings, 
,
, Abstract/Experimental/Free Improvisation/Noise
Burkhard Beins, Rhodri Davies, Sven-Åke Johansson
Fallstudien
2017
Serge Baghdassarians / Boris Baltschun / Burkhard Beins
Future Perfect
2016, CD, Album, Mikroton Recordings
Chris Abrahams & Burkhard Beins
Instead Of The Sun
2016, CD, Album, Herbal International
Burkhard Beins / Enrico Malatesta / Michael Vorfeld / Christian Wolfarth / Ingar Zach
Glück
2015, CD, Album, Ltd, Mikroton Recordings
Liz Allbee & Burkhard Beins
Mensch Mensch Mensch
2014, LP, Album, Alt.Vinyl
Burkhard Beins, John Butcher & Mark Wastell
Membrane
2014, CDr, Album, Ltd, Confront, ,
, Free Improvisation/Abstract/Experimental
Lotte Anker / Jakob Riis / Nguyen Thanh Thuy / Ngo Trà My / Pham Thi Hue / Sonx / Kim Ngoc / Patrizia Oliva / Stefano Giust / Terje Thiwång / Henrik Frisk / Stefan Östersjö / Burkhard Beins
Being Together: Hanoi New Music Festival Ensemble 2013
2013, CD, Album, Setola Di Maiale
Kim Myhr / Burkhard Beins / Kari Rønnekleiv / Nils Ostendorf
Live At Ringve Museum Trondheim 2011
2011, 2xFile, MP3, Album, 320, Audition Records
Denley* & Reinertsen* / Beins* & Mueller* / Gustafsson* & Wooley* / Carlsson* & Hess* / DJ Sniff
Bridges
2011
Burkhard Beins
Structural Drift
2009, CD, Album, Künstlerhäuser Worpswede
SLW : Beins* • Capece* • Davies* • Nakamura*
SLW
2008, CD, Album, Formed Records
Burkhard Beins, Michael Thieke, Luca Venitucci
Roman Tics
2008, CDr, Mini, Cathnor Recordings
Burkhard Beins
Disco Prova
2007, 
,
, Experimental/Free Improvisation
Serge Baghdassarians / Boris Baltschun / Burkhard Beins
Zur Stabilen Stützung Eines Körpers Ist Es Notwendig, Dass Er Mindestens Drei Auflagenpunkte Hat, Die Nicht In Einer Geraden Liegen
2006
Keith Rowe / Burkhard Beins
Untitled
2004, CD, Erstwhile Records
Burkhard Beins / Dirk Marwedel / Michael Vorfeld
Misiiki
2003, CD, Rossbin
Burkhard Beins Und Sven-Åke Johansson
Santa Fé
2003, LP, Eventuell
Andrea Neumann / Burkhard Beins
Lidingö
2002, CD, Album, Erstwhile Records
Nmperign + Dörner*, Beins*
Nmperign + Dörner, Beins
2002, LP, Twisted Village
Burkhard Beins & John Bisset
Chapel / Kapell
2001, CD, Album, 2:13 Music
Rowe*, Beins*
Grain
2001, CD, Album, Zarek, ,
, Abstract/Free Improvisation
Ignaz Schick, har·T, Y-Ton-G, Jörg Burkhard, Burkhard Beins
Hörstücke II
2000, CDr, Comp, IRRAH-Verlag
Burkhard Beins, Martin Pfleiderer & Peter Niklas Wilson
Yarbles
1997, CD, Album, hatOLOGY, 
,
, Free Improvisation
Marmalsana
Marmalsana
2024, Cass, Album, Ruptured, 
,
, Avant-garde Jazz/Free Improvisation/Free Jazz
Sawt Out
Black Current
2023, LP, Album, Ltd, Al Maslakh
Sawt Out With Tony Elieh
Machine Learning
2022, CD, Album, Bocian Records
The Sealed Knot
Twenty
2020, CD, Album, Confront
Cox Orange
Here Or There
2020
Trio Sowari
Third Issue
2018, CD, Album, Mikroton Recordings, ,
, Abstract/Experimental/Free Improvisation/Noise/Minimal
Sawt Out
Sawt Out
2018
Various
Bridges
2011
Phosphor
Phosphor II
2009, CD, Album, Potlatch
Perlonex With Keith Rowe / Charlemagne Palestine
Tensions
2006, 2xCD, Album, Nexsound, Nexsound, 
,
, Experimental/Minimal/Free Improvisation
Phosphor
Phosphor
2001, CD, Album, Potlatch
Splitter Orchester
Splitter Musik
2024, 3xCD, Album, Ltd, Hyperdelia, ,
, Experimental/Electroacoustic/Field Recording/Free Improvisation/Free Jazz
Polwechsel
Embrace
2023, 4xLP + Box, Ni-Vu-Ni-Connu, ,
, Electroacoustic/Experimental
Perlonex
The Gothenburg Tapes Vol.1
2020
Perlonex
The Gothenburg Tapes Vol.2
2020
Perlonex
Perlonoid
2017, CD, Zarek, ,
, Abstract/Experimental
The Seen
Archive : Volumes I - V : 2005 To 2009
2017, 5xCD, Album, Ltd, Num, Confront, ,
, Free Improvisation/Abstract/Experimental
The Sealed Knot
Trembling Shade
2016, CDr, Album, Confront
Polwechsel
Untitled (N°7)
2015, LP, Ltd, God Records (3), 
,
, Contemporary
The Sealed Knot
Live At Cafe Oto
2013, CD, Album, Confront
TREE
Tree
2013, CD, Album, Ltd, Musica Moderna
Polwechsel
Traces Of Wood
2013, CD, Album, hatOLOGY, ,
, Free Improvisation/Experimental
Activity Center
Lohn & Brot
2010
Mars Expedition Komplex
Mars Expedition Komplex
2010
The Sealed Knot
And We Disappear
2009, CD, Album, Another Timbre
SLW
Fifteen Point Nine Grams
2009, CD, Album, Organized Music From Thessaloniki
Trio Sowari
ShortCut
2008, CD, Album, Potlatch
The Sealed Knot
The Sealed Knot
2007
Polwechsel
Archives Of The North
2006, CD, Album, hatOLOGY
Trio Sowari
Three Dances
2005, CD, Album, Potlatch
The Sealed Knot
Unwanted Object
2004
Perlonex
Peripherique
2001, CD, Album, Zarek
The Sealed Knot
Surface/Plane
2001
The Sealed Knot
Untitled
2000
Activity Center
Möwen & Moos
1999
nunc
Untitled
1996, CD, Album, 2:13 Music
APPEARANCES +
Toggle
Live At P A S
2023, 2xFile, FLAC, scatterArchive
Raed Yassin
Phantom Orchestra
2025, 2xLP, Album, Morphine Records, ,
, Experimental/Electroacoustic/Free Improvisation/Avantgarde/Sound Collage
Laura Cuomo, Mario Gabola
MUSICA VIVA
2024, Cass, Album, Viande
Polwechsel & John Butcher, Magda Mayas
Embrace (Jupiter Storm - Partial Intersect)
2023
Phil Durrant Quartet
Archif #24: PDQ Tour June 1998
2020, 2xFile, FLAC, Not On Label (Rhodri Davies Self-released)
Polwechsel & Klaus Lang
Unseen
2020, CD, Album, ezz-thetics, ,
, Contemporary/Free Improvisation
Activity Center
Renkel & Beins - Delay 1989
2020, 4xFile, FLAC, Not On Label (Activity Center Self-released)
Werner Dafeldecker
Small Worlds
2019, LP, Album, RM, Edition Telemark
The Pitch (2) & Splitter Orchester
Frozen Orchestra (Splitter)
2018, CD, Album, Mikroton Recordings
Euphorium_freakestra
Grande Casino
2018, 3xCD, Album, Euphorium Records, ,
, Free Improvisation
Kasper T Toeplitz / Zeitkratzer
Agitation / Stagnation
2018, 2x CD, 
,
, Drone/Contemporary/Abstract
George Lewis & Splitter Orchester
Creative Construction Set™
2016, CD, Album, Mikroton Recordings, ,
, Abstract/Drone/Experimental/Free Improvisation
Splitter Orchester, Felix Kubin
Shine On You Crazy Diagram
2016, Vinyl, ,
, Experimental/Avant-garde Jazz
Liz Allbee / Hans Grusel
Strategies For Failure / Zuckerkrieg
2014, LP, Album, Ltd, Resipiscent
Sven-Åke Johansson
Filme I
2013, DVD-V, PAL, SÅJ, ,
, Free Improvisation/Musique Concrète
Various
Echtzeitmusik Berlin
2012, 3xCD, Comp, Mikroton Recordings, ,
, Musique Concrète/Free Jazz/Krautrock/Abstract/Contemporary Jazz/Noise/Minimal/Free Improvisation/Experimental
Lysn
Ecstatic Landing
2012, CD, Album, Ltd, Aquarellist, ,
, Future Jazz/Experimental/Ambient
Michael Moser
Resonant Cuts
2010, 2xCD, Album, Ltd, + B, Edition RZ, PFAU Verlag, ,
, Free Improvisation/Sound Collage
Perlonex & Charlemagne Palestine
It Ain't Necessarily So
2009, 2xCD, Album, Zarek
Polwechsel & John Tilbury
Field
2009, CD, Album, hatOLOGY, ,
, Abstract/Modern Classical/Free Improvisation
Chris Abrahams & Clare Cooper
Germ Studies
2009, 2xCD, Album, Splitrec, 
,
, Abstract/Experimental
Various
Worpsbest: A Fine Selection Of Contemporary Music
2009, CD, Album, Künstlerhäuser Worpswede
Stockhausen* / Zender* / Hespos* / Keller* / Stahnke* / Phosphor
Spielformen Der Improvisation
2005, CD, Comp, RCA Red Seal, Deutscher Musikrat, Sony BMG Music Entertainment
Various
Musik In Deutschland 1950-2000 - Konzertmusik / Instrumentale Kammermusik
2005, 8xCD, Comp + Box, RCA Red Seal, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Deutscher Musikrat
Activity Center & Phil Minton
Activity Center / Phil Minton
2005
Various
Labor CD - Labor Sonor / KuLe / Berlin
2004, 2xCD, Comp, Charhizma, ,
, Abstract/Experimental
Various
Berlin Drums & Percussions (4 Solos)
2004, 4xCDr, Mini, Ltd, Num, absinthRecords, ,
, Noise/Free Improvisation/Experimental
Various
Festival Voor Nieuwe Muziek Happy New Ears 2003 > Kortrijk > Lille
2003, CD, Comp, Happy New Ears
Various
Relay Eight (Sunday 11th June 2000)
2001, CD, Album, 2:13 Music, ,
, Free Improvisation
Various
Jazzwoche Hannover 2001
2001, CD, Comp, ABC Roxxon, ,
, Contemporary Jazz
Perlon*
The Bad Alchemy Pieces
2000, 7", Bad Alchemy, ,
, Experimental
Perlon*
Perlon
2000
Various
Relay III - Random Play
1996, CD, Album, 2:13 Music
Various
Bad Alchemy Nr 25
1995, Cass, Comp, C50, Bad Alchemy, ,
, Modern Classical/Noise/Free Improvisation
Various
Bad Alchemy Nr 18
1991, Cass, Comp, C45, Bad Alchemy
Various
Bad Alchemy Nr 14
1990, Cass, Comp, C53, Bad Alchemy, ,
, Free Jazz/Free Improvisation/Avantgarde/Experimental
Psychic Rally
12/October/1989
1989, Cass, Mixed, C60, Psychic Rally, ,
, Noise/Experimental
Various
Włącz Swój Kapitał
2021, 2xCass, Comp, Ltd, Radio Kapitał
Various
Transmissions From The Secret Cinema, Vol.1
2021, LP, Comp, VIC NIC
Various
Fukushima!
2012, 2xCD, Comp, Presqu'île Records, ,
, Abstract
Various
Airport Symphony
2007, 2x CD, ,
, Minimal/Abstract/Field Recording/Experimental/Ambient
Various
Improvised Music From Japan Extra 2006
2006, 2xCD, Comp, Improvised Music From Japan, 
,
, Noise/Abstract/Musique Concrète/Minimal/Free Improvisation/Experimental
Various
London Berlin Athens
2001, CDr, Promo, 2:13 Music
Various
The Answering Machine Solution
1996, CD, Comp, S/Edition, Staalplaat, 
,
, Experimental
