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Centrozoon at Quinn's

Courtesy of James Keepnews | Posted on October 11, 2016

Where

Quinn's
330 Main St.
Beacon, NY
Map
(845) 202-7447

When

Sun, November 13, 2016
8:00 pm

Musicians

About

Currently on their 20th anniversary tour, the experimental electronic ensemble centrozoon will play Quinn’s on Sunday, November 13 at 8 PM. The core members are Markus Reuter (Warr touch guitar, loops, programming) and Bernhard Wöstheinrich (synthesizers, electronic percussion, programming). The group's music is flexible and has altered from album to album, but frequently-used elements include ambient music, improvisation, electronica, progressive rock and IDM (intelligent dance music).

While most of the centrozoon recordings have been made by the duo of Reuter and Wöstheinrich, the group has on two occasions expanded to a formal trio - the first featuring No-Man singer Tim Bowness for a set of vocal and song-based projects, the second featuring multi-instrumentalist Tobias Reber. The group has also collaborated with King Crimson drummer Pat Mastelotto, engineer Bill Munyon and a variety of remixers. Bernhard and Markus will go into a retrospective mode for this tour, mixing their space music and experimental electronica in varying ratios, depending on the nature of the context they are performing in. Having started to perform together in 1996, this series of concerts is a personal celebration of a long-term artistic collaboration....

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