Ansgar Beste
Ansgar Beste (b. 1981) from Sweden, has studied composition at 8 music academies in 5 countries. His music has won several major international prizes and has been programmed/played in 20 countries, at 44 festivals, and by 19 radio stations. Ansgar Beste is focusing his musical material on the complex sounds and noise elements produced by conventional musical instruments in an unconventional, purely acoustic (non-electronic) way: by de-familiarizing the instruments’ familiar sound with a wide array of extended playing and vocal techniques and newly discovered preparations, he likes to play with the listeners’ expectations, perceptions, experiences and comprehension.