Rashad Becker
rashad becker is a syrian-german composer and musician residing in berlin. rashad has been an active part behind and within a wide variety of musical cultures for more than three decades; from the studio to the club, to academia, fine arts, film and theater, from the tiniest back-rooms to glorious temples – adding up to involvement in thousands of productions.
rashad’s own musical creations have become a revered and idiosyncratic part of the modern catalogue of synthetic music. this work sits outside the symbolic charge of genre, unfolding an alternate narrative within its own tragic-comical realm. praised for his unique approach to sound-sculpting, becker’s music lives on the cusp of the plausible and the uncanny – teasing familiar readings but twisting them towards the surreal and improbable.
it is here single sounds are employed as agents of meaning, affect and interaction in the bigger bowl of music. the core driver is exploring sound as a transfer-model between exposure and experience – and music as a bonding agent of social movements.
recent live performances unfold as deeply physical, densely populated, spatially and sentimentally disorienting audioramas of absurd realism.
Rashad Becker
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