Beatdenker - Do I Also Need A Name Now, Haha

Third Postcontemporary Beat single from the album "Ethic Endless Fun"

instant composition, loops recorded on RC505, finger drumming on MPC500, SY300 guitar synths, fx and instant arranging on loop-station, mixing, mastering, video arrangement and stuff

After Beatdenker's debut album "Too Tall To Dance" he is still pushing two things. First is making the most complexistic rhythms sounding as bouncy as possible. He developed a lot of my rhythmic influences (Carnatic Music, Experimental European Music of the 20th century) further into his own rhythmic systems, where he is now able to imagine and concretely play more complex rhythms like triple nested tuplets in a polyrhythm like 31 over 17, means he plays another 5 over e.g. certain 7 hits out of the 31 and then he plays 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 he is doing. But still he is mixing this approach with a more open Black American Music influenced kind of improvising.

Major tasks of our time are probably the understanding of complex interrelations and contexts, to tolerate ambiguities - at the same time to resolve paradoxes - and to describe problems as concretely as possible. This album is by no means an attack on contingency, nevertheless a laudation to the concrete and a rebuff to the vague.

Second is to mix that knowledge about rhythm with Dance and Electronic Beats Music, to create Future Dance Steps, means checking out how people need to move differently within his live sets. It's the coolest pleasure for him, if people come after a concert and tell him that they moved their bodies in a way they never did before. Bämmy, haha.

Most likely, no (human) being perceives time as something uniform or evenly progressing. Although he is the biggest fan of and strongly influenced by straight (programmed) beats and in the pocket grooves, at the same time he sees rhythm and life and „the world“ (if it exists at all, in the way most people think of it) much more irregular, contrasty, multi-layered, diverse, multimorphic and full of dance and movement contingencies. In this sense the album wants to be a glimpse into the beats future or bringing postcontemporary beats and move(ment)s into the present. Yippie.

And a last thing, his three personal slogans: ethic endless fun, imagination unlimited, demanding power from below, means: have as much fun as possible without hurting someone else (especially marginalized people and non-human entities, too), imagine the most way-out things within your work or passion, push your creativity as much as possible to reach something new and (most probably most important) join at least one political, social, plural economic, future-orientated movement and fight for a better "world".

"Have fun listening, haha yippie. Peace out!"

Beatdenker is a guitar player, composer, producer, (rhythm) researcher, tutor, thinker, (festival) organizer, postcontemporary, subcultural creator, feminist, real-utopist, motivator, supporter of marginalized groups, traveler, passionated laugher, part of Subwater Beats collective and privileged inhabitant of planet earth.

Beatdenker does, tries and or believes in pluralism, doing things together, experiments, multicollectivity, endless fun, multiperspectivity, recovering again and again, celebrating and appreciating life, connecting collectives, failing and learing process, exchange, consistency, sustainability, peace, thinking from the future, correlation, connectivity, respect and random stuff.

Beatdenker played live at e.g.:
Fusion Festival Lärz, Red Light Radio Amsterdam/NL, What is Music Festival Burgos/E, Jazzfestival Leipzig, Jazzfestival Freiburg, KIM Festival Berlin, Schmiede Playground Salzburg/AT, SeaNaps Festival Leipzig, SURfF Festival Berlin, LoFi Playground Festival Amsterdam/NL, Rudolstadt Festival, Jazzkollektiv Nights Berlin, Bandstand Festival Hellerau, BRN Festival Dresden, SampleMusicFestival Berlin