DAN KANDEL
I was at this Performance and missed many nuances in the Mix that evening... immersive and wonderful...this whole Tour was varied & magical...I highly recommended purchasing & downloading them all as they become available! Thank Guys!
Favorite track: Starlite Southbridge 4.
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Recorded live on the 20th Anniversary Tour at Starlite Gallery, Southbridge, MA, USA on November 16 2016.
These pieces are unedited and the mix is just like what was going out to the P.A. that night. That might include clicks and digital dropouts.
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GEORGE'S ROAD DIARY
Date: 16 NOV 2016
Venue: Starlite, Southbridge MA
This was the last show booked/confirmed for the 2016 centrozoon U.S. tour, finally filling a gaping hole in the tour calendar wedged between the Philly and Connecticut shows.
This club/art gallery/performance space in Southbridge was recommended to me during a phone conversation with Tom Palmieri (a friend who manages the prog band Circuline). After doing some research of the venue (their Facebook page), I saw this as a perfect fit, not only because of their proximity to the next night's show (which was a +), but mainly for their appreciation and support of diverse artists and projects (the performance space is great, too!). Already having an established relationship with the venue, Tom graciously made the booking for us (like I said, Tom - I owe ya' one!).
During soundcheck we quickly discovered the wonky (i.e., "unorthodox") method in which the sound system was wired: basically mono - the right channel powering both the performance space as well as the bar area next door and the left channel powering the subs (???). This wouldn't work for us; not only for the obvious loss of spatial placement within the stereo spectrum of various sounds, loops, etc., but for the spacial/phasing effects now being destructive (in short,"phasing" refers to the splitting of the audio signal and modulating one of the signals, resulting in a pleasing, lush sound when played stereo...however, played mono can cause the split signals to periodically cancel each other out, resulting in a sound that's not so nice... that's just the physics of waveform cancellation).
Thanks to an 11th-hour, massive on-the-spot rewiring effort by the venue crew, Tom, and Markus, this venue has a "new" sound system that never sounded as good as it does now!
credits
released January 7, 2017
Music composed by Markus Reuter and Bernhard Wöstheinrich
Bernhard Wöstheinrich: Synthesizers and Sequencers
Markus Reuter: Touch Guitars® U8, Processing, Live Mixing
Mixed and mastered by Markus Reuter using a Moon by Simaudio Neo 230HAD headphone amp/DAC, December 2016.
Produced by Markus Reuter (for Unsung Productions)
George "G$" Bley: Tour Manager, Driver, Roadie, Merch Magician
Special thanks to Tom Palmieri and Demetri Kasperson
Centrozoon is not just questioning the process of making music, but the very borders of music itself.
Creating sound, to
centrozoon, is an exploration of possibilities and extremes, a constant conscious confusion of contexts and evaluating the validity of what is ‘right’ and ‘wrong’.
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I was there, when Markus played that. Never heard of him before, but then ... ... Crimson ProjeKct gave a great show and since this evening I'm (no we're - my wife loves the music too and owns a signed T-Shirt ...) a fan of his work. There is so much to explore - and it is so touching ...
Michael Kunkel
Thank you for this excellent release . This indeed compliments the three earlier releases of soundscapes from the
Stickmen concerts . Please keep up the
good work .
Nick Bradey
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