In their latest release, ‘Teer’ (english: tar), rand unveil two uncompromising extended tracks, ‘Teer I – fluid’ and ‘Teer II – rolled’.
Teer is due to be released on 29 August 2025 via their own imprint RAND.

Exuding a technoid and industrial ambience, the EP sees the piano-electro duo of Jan Gerdes and Dr.Nojoke venture into uncharted territories. 
‘Teer’ evokes the atmosphere of urban spaces and overlooked places: the profane and seemingly meaningless transitions of car parks, subways and construction sites, where material textures and surfaces are scanned acoustically.
You can hear machines moving and processing the tar, smoothing the ground and forming layers and bead-like thickenings as it transitions from liquid to solid, with the edges fraying in a coordinated manner.

In ‘Teer I’, the musical material takes on a more fluid and wafting form, driven by pulsating technoid machines, while a lonely, melancholic voice observes from a distance.
'Teer II' is more of a portrait of the rhythmic details of the urban scenario: the motorised, metallic pulsations of the machines at work during various rolling processes form acoustic layers between which a quite sad, hypnotic melody occasionally emerges.

Everything seems deserted and gloomy … with only a few workers behind the machines.

Both pieces were recorded live in one take.
Drawings by Jan Gerdes, photo by Dr.Nojoke


rand - Teer 2 - rolled

The pianist Jan Gerdes is one of the most interesting and versatile musicians of his generation. As a pianist between tradition and the avant-garde he is a master of both the classical–romantic and contemporary repertoire. 

Jan Gerdes studied piano at the colleges of music in Hannover, Detmold and Essen with Kurt Bauer, Nerine Barett and Renate Kretschmar-Fischer, and took master classes with famous pianists such as Anatol Ugorski, Halina Czerny-Stefanska and Edith Picht-Axenfeld. 

Concerts all over the world have taken this award-winning musician to countries in Europe, South America and the Far East. He has given guest performances at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, Maerzmusik Berlin, Rotterdam Gaudeamus Week, Festival Chiffren, Festival Ultraschall Berlin, Musica Viva Straßburg, Stockhausen Courses, Centre Acanthes Metz, Bregenzer Festspiele, Haller Bachtage, Kunstfest Weimar, Beethovenfest Bonn, WDR Musikfest, Weingartener Tage Neuer Musik, Darmstadt Summer Courses and elsewhere, and he has appeared in concert halls such as the Berliner Konzerthaus, the Kölner Philharmonie, Opera de Paris, Essener Philharmonie, Konzerthaus Wien, Freiburger Konzerthaus, Tonhalle Düsseldorf, Alte Oper Frankfurt and Berliner Philharmonie. 

He has made television, radio and CD recordings for NDR, WDR, MDR, HR, RB, ORF, Deutschland Radio Berlin and the Label Ambitus. His solo CD Gelände/Zeichnung with very recent piano music was released in 2008 by Label Zeitklang. Jan Gerdes has worked with a number of leading contemporary composers, including Karlheinz Stockhausen, Helmut Lachenmann, Wolfgang Rihm and Peter Ruzicka, and has given first performances of works by Sidney Corbett, Peter Gahn, Brice Pauset, Moritz Eggert, Alex Nowitz, Marcus Antonius Wesselmann and many others. 

As a traveller between the worlds of classical and new music, electronica and performance, in 2004 he founded the composing and improvising duo EROL, which explores the interface between piano music and electronic club culture. Since 2018 he works on his  electroacoustic project `rand` with Berlin based techno producer Frank Bogdanowitz aka Dr.Nojoke. Their debut album „ Peripherie“ was released in 2022. 

The music-theatre platform solosymphonie-productions, a joint venture with actor Michael Fuchs, develops innovative programs and interdisciplinary projects that juxtapose traditional and modern elements in music, theatre, literature, visual art and dance in a dramaturgy that turns them into a sensory experience. Their successful production 4.48 Psychose, a confrontation of the play by Sarah Kane with contemporary notated and improvised music, was premiered at the Nationaltheater Mannheim.

Jan Gerdes is also working as a composer, as his piano solo project „ Songs and Improvisations“ presents own compositions and improvisations confronting the worlds of classical, contemporary and jazz music. His latest Solo album " Songs and Improvisations" will be released dec 2023 with label XJAZZMUSIC.

Jan Gerdes currently lives in Berlin and is a lecturer for piano and contemporary music at the University of Potsdam. He was teaching contemporary piano at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin, Improvisation at the Hochschule für Musik Mannheim and he hold master classes at the Mozarteum Salzburg and at the University of Liverpool. 


Contact:
+49 (0) 30 288 616 22
+49 173 200 56 22 
Paul-Robeson-Str. 50
10439 Berlin - Germany

jan@jan-gerdes.de 
www.jan-gerdes.de

Tune In!
20 YEARS OF CLIKNO
The Script-Club Takeover
5 -12. October 2025

Celebrating 20 years of CLIKNO in 2025!
I am a live-act & electronic music producer from Berlin, active since 2005. 
More than 150 releases of deep, hypnotic, percussive, minimal techno, microhouse and electronica under the CLIKNO guise.
CLIKNO is infused by Musique Concrete, Dada, Minimalism and life at all and is made of field recordings and found sounds.

www.linktr.ee/dr.nojoke

bandcamp
www.drnojoke.bandcamp.com
www.clikno.bandcamp.com
www.rand.bandcamp.com

spotify playlists
Club Architects
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3zsE39u1QIbv0VFf9kzRCo
CLIKNO
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1flKVXgrwFRBBiTReJiWAG
Music for Peripheries
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5jtKoxvUAssIgDTmpdGiZa


out now:
INPI MARI
https://clikno.bandcamp.com/album/inpi-mari

WRONGWRONGRIGHTRIGHT
https://clikno.bandcamp.com/album/wrongwrongrightright

rand - III
https://rand.bandcamp.com/album/iii

ILO BABO RISI
https://stellierecords.bandcamp.com/album/dr-nojoke-ilo-babo-risi-ep-st017FUSO

FUSO
https://archipelmusique.bandcamp.com/album/fuso

M
https://clikno.bandcamp.com/album/m

REMIXES 2
https://drnojoke.bandcamp.com/album/remixes-2-2

ALMA ATA OUM
https://goldminmusic.bandcamp.com/album/alma-ata-oum

rand - PERIPHERIE REMIXES
https://clikno.bandcamp.com/album/peripherie-remixes

rand - PERIPHERIE
https://rand.bandcamp.com/album/peripherie

projects:
@CLIKNO label
@rand_gerdes_drnojoke "rand", duo with @jan-gerdes
@anomali solo-dronescapes
@ploberlin electronic music impro orchestra
@thepoolberlin collective
@paralelo-trioon duo with @J-Lab
@UNOIKI collective | label | network


Info:
Dr. Nojoke is a producer, performer and musician– his live sets continually bring new and unique sounds to the table, a combination of field-recordings, self-made sounds, and highly conceptual production that redefine the way we understand electronic music.
A Berlin native and leader in directional minimal techno (or “clikno” as he describes it), Dr. Nojoke is a master of rethinking ordinary musicality and procuring new uses for the everyday.

Dr.Nojoke´s live show may feature instruments such as radio, crushed plastic bottles and souvenirs as Dr.Nojoke celebrates the joy of finding special sounds in everyday objects not usually appreciated for their musicality.

Since 2005 performances in clubs and on festivals in Brazil, South Africa, Canada, Sweden, UK, Italy, Russia, USA, Ukraine, Belarus, Romania, Moldova, Slovenia, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Spain, Portugal, France and throughout Germany.

More than 150 releases (EPs/albums/remixes/contributions) on labels such as CLIKNO, Archipel, Goldmin Music, Sleep is Commercial, Klangscheiben, UNOIKI, Pluie/Noir, Destroy All Monsters, Minim.all, Autist, Eintakt, Resopal ...

rand is a crossover project at the interface of classical and electronic music with references to minimal, romantic and contemporary music as well as to jazz, ambient, drone, glitch, clicks & cuts and club music. 
https://linktr.ee/rand_Jan_Gerdes_Dr.Nojoke

Jan Gerdes - piano, composition
Dr.Nojoke - electronics, composition

Both artists share a fascination for the frontiers of contemporary piano music and experimental club electronics and the acoustic and performative interweaving of individualized, poetic and lyrical piano sound with the overwhelming, orchestral and bizarre soundscapes of electronic music. 
In this field of tension between analog and digital sounds, lonely piano lines meet threatening `dronic` sound walls, repetitive piano patterns exist next to crystalline electronic impulses and create fantastic atmospheres and sound scenarios as well as spaces of manifold beauty, poetry and silence.

New Urban and Sensitive Music for Piano and Electronics for fans of: 
Nils Frahm, Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto, Bing & Ruth, Erased Tapes ...

Jan Gerdes, who as a pianist has mastered both the classical-romantic and contemporary repertoire, has collaborated with some of the leading composers of our time, such as Karlheinz Stockhausen, Helmut Lachenmann and Wolfgang Rihm, and teaches at the University of Potsdam as well as at the Hanns Eisler Music Colleges in Berlin and Mannheim. 

Frank Bogdanowitz alias Dr.Nojoke has been performing successfully for many years at selected electronic music festivals such as Club Transmediale (Berlin), Boom Festival (Portugal), Piknic Electronik (Montreal), ARMA 17 (Moscow) and has made a name for himself with his own experimental style, which he also represents on his own label Cllkno. 

@Jan-Gerdes @Dr-Nojoke