A concert by Danny Becher is a meditative journey
travelling through different inner landscapes.

The voice with its overtone solos is surrounded by tibetan, thai, japan and nepalese singing bowls, and indian traditional recitation of mantras or sanskrit songs are integrated.
A kalimba, the african thum-piano, tuned in pentatonic scale, is a soft and joyful contrasting sound to all instruments, as well as the integration of black rajasthani granit stones, the lithophone, where stone starts sounding with its own quality.

Depending on the place of the concert a variety of gongs, from Burma and China, till one meter in diameter is integrated too.

1953 born in Braunschweig, Germany
1973 immigration to India
living and working in Auroville and Pondicherry;
study of vocal hindusthani music with Sri Mohan Mistry
study of hindi with Miss Hero Vashishtha,
study of tabla with Sri Tarun Das and Sri Harit Kumar Bhattacharya
all at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram Pondicherry;
further development of Overtone chant in combination with
breathing excercises originating from Hatha Yoga, Karate
and other disciplines.

1981 immigration to Netherlands since 1982
teaching overtone chant and musical awareness
at different institutions;
concerts with gongs, singing bowls and overtone chant,
and seminars about the healing quality of music, at:
conservatories, music schools, new age centers, institutions for mentally and physically handicapped people, hospices, spiritual schools like the freemasons lodge, rosencrucians, yoga centers, cultural institutions, logopedist institutions, a.o.
Broadcastings for radio and tv programs.
- Recordings for CD's:
Solo, the TONUS-Ensemble, meditations cd's with different workshop-leaders, and with Fred Vogels
- School concerts/plays and concerts as NATURAL-Formation
with college Fred Vogels, percussionist, marimba, composer
and in Sweden with the TONUS-Ensemble,
consisting of Peo Hagfeldt, Pauli Mårsén and myself
- Musical Demonstrations and classes at swedisch schools;
appearances on radio and school-tv
- Musical service at Hospices.

Besides that, study of western classical music theory and west.class.music history in which I graduated.
Study of classical voice training
with Meta Bourgonjen from the Conservatory Tilburg,
Felix Schoonenboom from Conservatory Zwolle,
interpretation in Gregorian Chant, with Lida Dekker,
- short study of counterpoint and practical harmony.
- diploma for conductor (choirs) at the SNK, Utrecht.
- conducting five permanent 4-part choirs

Research and documentation in making sound visible:
Cymatic Photograpgy and
Film documentation - The Message of Sound -

Next to the work in netherlands I have given concerts and workshops in: Germany, France, Spain, Belgium, Great Britain, Turkey, Sweden and India. Radio and TV intervieuws and documentation on my work were done in Netherland and Sweden.

Danny Becher - sweden [65 KB]

if you want more information
on concerts and workshop data
kindly send a mail to me mailto:danny.becher@12move.nl