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Dr. Beat: Warren, better known as Dr. Beat, is an American musician based in Santa Rosa, California. He frequently performs and records as a solo artist, using a homemade musical instrument that he calls The Beat Machine.

Dr. Beat
"He’s known as Dr. Beat, and those who have seen him perform find his show unforgettable" - Lynda Hopkins The Windsor Times Dr. Beat (Warren Konitshek) plays a homemade musical instrument that he calls "The Beat Machine" Dr. beat started off as a guitar player but he felt limited to what he wanted to do musically, so he created The Beat Machine in order for him to play the music he wanted to make a reality without any limitations. Dr. Beat has said that he originally started thinking about creating his own instrument because he wanted to somehow be a one man band. So Konitshek thought in order to do that, he should build something so that could actually allow him to be a guitar player, drummer, a bass player all at the same time.Thus the Beat Machine was born, a strange contraption that is both a musical as well as a visual work of art. Dr. Beat currently has a following in the United States of America, where he has toured on several occasions.

The Beat Machine
The Beat Machine is a homemade musical instrument that is constructed out of black pvc pipes which resembles the shape of a candycane. Over five feet tall(1.52400m), one of the pipes contains a low E glow-in-the-dark guitar string right over a passive electric guitar pickup. As like other string instruments, The Beat Machine uses frets but are marked out in thick red stripes. The instrument also contains arcade like buttons that activates various samples whenever you press them. On one end of the pvc pipes beholds a spherical structured globe that activates more samples whenever one of the touch sensitive pads are applied pressure to them. The Beat Machine also contains two foot pedals that activate both a bass and snare drum sample when stepped on.

Influences
Dr. Beat cites a wide variety of musical influences, including Bassnectar, Animusic, Behold... The Arctopus, Unicorn Kid, The Fall of Troy, Coheed and Cambria, Family Force 5, Guns N Roses, John Williams, Gorillaz, and John 5

Discography
Studio Albums Blood Transfusion (2010) Splinter of the Mind's Eye (2011) Dream Catcher (2012)