Currents (band)
| Currents | |
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 Streams in Eberhard Schoener's Studio 2019 |
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| General information | |
| origin | Munich , Germany |
| Genre (s) | Electronica |
| founding | 2015 |
| Website | www.stroeme.com |
| Founding members | |
| Mario Schönhofer | |
| Tobias Weber | |
Ströme are a German electronics duo that was founded in Munich in 2015 . Members are the professional musicians Mario Schönhofer and Tobias Weber , whose instruments mainly consist of modular synthesizers .
history
The two musicians Mario Schönhofer and Tobias Weber met as part of a solo project by LaBrassBanda front man Stefan Dettl and toured with him from 2010 to 2012. From 2013 they were permanent members of the LaBrassBanda formation . On the European tour the band Mario Schönhofer sat next to a conventional electric bass for the first time a modular synthesizer from Doepfer one. At the end of 2015, Mario Schönhofer and Tobias Weber met with the LaBrassBanda trumpeter Korbinian Weber and played under the name of Banda Beats . In mid-2016, Tobias Weber and Mario Schönhofer decided to leave LaBrassBanda and concentrate entirely on flows . Korbinian Weber's place was taken over by jazz trumpeter Michael Salvermoser . Since 2017, Ströme only play as a duo. Many live performances and a. On BR TV , Ströme made known to a larger audience from 2017 and helped the band to do extensive concert tours at home and abroad.
At a garden party organized by DLD boss Steffi Czerny in late summer 2018, Ströme met the composer and electronics pioneer Eberhard Schoener , who spontaneously made his studio available to them. His original Moog IIIp synthesizer , which he himself brought from Robert Moog's workshop in Trumansburg in 1969 , was also in the Schoeners studio . At the ceremonial handover of the instrument to the German Museum in Munich in 2019 , Ströme played under the direction of Eberhard Schoener together with an ensemble in which Pete York and George Kochbeck participated.
Web links
- Official website
- Discogs.com
- Bayerischer Rundfunk PULS over currents
- Streams at the PULS Festival 2016
- Interview KEYS
- Stream tour dates through 2019
Individual evidence
- ^ Süddeutsche Zeitung: Iconographic instrument. Retrieved May 18, 2020 .