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Wednesday11Jun 2025
CONTINUUM TOUR 2025
Sydney (AU), City Recital Hall
Monday9Jun 2025
CONTINUUM TOUR 2025
Melbourne (AU), Max Watt's
Friday9May 2025
50 Years of Phaedra
Manchester (UK), Aviva Studios - The Hall
Thursday8May 2025
50 Years of Phaedra
Birmingham (UK), Birmingham Town Hall
Thursday1May 2025
CONTINUUM TOUR 2025
Berlin (DE), Admiralspalast
Monday28Apr 2025
CONTINUUM TOUR 2025
Dresden (DE), Kulturpalast Dresden
Sunday27Apr 2025
CONTINUUM TOUR 2025
München (DE), Isarphilharmonie
Saturday26Apr 2025
CONTINUUM TOUR 2025
Baden-Baden (DE), Festspielhaus
Thursday24Apr 2025
CONTINUUM TOUR 2025
Düsseldorf (DE), Tonhalle Düsseldorf
Wednesday23Apr 2025
CONTINUUM TOUR 2025
Neunkirchen/Saar (DE), Neue Gebläsehalle
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Is live also live when it is not “now” does live remain ?

Answered by Edgar Froese

Good advertising slogan. In many old fotos and in films you can see that all three band members are having a very slow Revox tape machine. Of course, you might come to the idea that the music you can hear there comes from the sound storage media. The truth is very simple: At the beginning of the seventies, we had already charged an engineer from Berlin with transforming the motor control unit of the ribbon draft into a variably adjustable speed mechanism. So it became possible to variably duplicate the notes of a sequencer in triplets or other rhythmic parameters with the record and play button of the tape machine. When three synchronizing sequencers generated rhythmic patterns in this way, we had already reached the exact ideas of an earlier polyrhythmic sound landscape. So a tape machine was transformed into an echo machine – this had nothing to do with backup tapes. Today you can reach the same result in five minute’s time with a commercially available software sequencer – provided that you know what you want to produce.

Bianca Froese-Acquaye

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Concerts 2023

Concert dates

Recent concerts upcoming concerts ›

Sydney (AU), City Recital Hall

Melbourne (AU), Max Watt's

Manchester (UK), Aviva Studios - The Hall

Birmingham (UK), Birmingham Town Hall

Berlin (DE), Admiralspalast

Dresden (DE), Kulturpalast Dresden

München (DE), Isarphilharmonie

Baden-Baden (DE), Festspielhaus

Düsseldorf (DE), Tonhalle Düsseldorf