Yamaha SY77 + PitchLoop89 &  ProphetVS + H3000.  Prophet 12. Long held notes and lot of envelopes and LFOs.

21apr15

On the occasion of Alvin Lucier's 90th birthday, a tribute using Ableton Live's Hybrid Reverb.

I Am Sitting In A HybridReverb

An homage to Bernard Parmegiani (27 October 1927 - 22 November 2013), one of my big heroes and influences. The material for this track is his work 'Indicatif - Aéroport Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle' which was used as its announcement signal from 1971-2005.  R.I.P.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Parmegiani

The original:   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FA14TbBO-Mo


Indicatif Infinitiv (goodbye)

test for an installation. more info here:  http://www.roberthenke.com/installations/ritual.html

over the course of six weeks the signals turn from five pure sine waves assigned to individual speakers to harsh digital noise. in between: funky stochastic rhythms that get more and more dense. 
that's the plan.
 

Ritual(proof of concept)

2022 rework of a early 2003 Monolake track. I just wanted to see if i can still open a Live set I made with Ableton Live 2 in Ableton Live 11. And then I spent the afternoon playing with it and decided to share the result. There you go! :-)

Atomium-2022-rework

Atomium - 2022 - 13

This is a live recording, captured at Ego club in Düsseldorf, June 5 1999.  The music has been created with a self written step sequencer, the PX-18, controlling  a basic sample player and effects engine, all done in MaxMSP, running on a Powerbook G3. The step sequencer had some unique features, e.g. the ability to switch patterns independently in each track, which later became an important part of a certain music software.

I found the recording on a backup disk today. It has not been edited or mastered. During the first 20 minutes of the set, and before the 'encore' the Monolake CD 'Gobi' is playing in the background. 
 

Monolake Live at Ego Düsseldorf June 5 1999

Nightly session with a Yamaha SY77, Eventide H3000, Eventide Eclipse, a self written Max4Live reverb and a bit of editing 

EphemeralH3000SY77M4L

Alto Excerpt

technical test turned into composition. first result of getting sounds out of the 1980 CBM 8032 computer. massive cloud of Lexicon 480L reverb in 2nd part and a low sine wave generator. The rest is pure 8 bit.

http://www.roberthenke.com/installations/8032series.html


8032 Alpha

a rough mix of excerpts from some of the tracks of the upcoming Monolake VLSI album. Release date October 7 2016.  http://roberthenke.com/releases/ml-032.html

VLSI - teaser

VLSI - Teaser

Excerpts of all tracks of the upcoming Monolake album 'Ghosts' in one go. More info here: www.monolake.de/releases/ml-026.html. Expected release date mid/end february. Formats: CD in nice digipack, double vinyl album + naked CD, mp3 download - and : 96k/24bit high resolution download !


Monolake Ghosts album preview

i still think it needs to be louder and it lacks dynamics and punch.  I STILL THINK IT NEEDS TO BE LOUDER AND IT LACKS DYNAMICS AND PUNCH!

Mastering - a step by step guide to good sound (now much louder!)

A version of my track 'Cern', edited 2008 as part of my 'free track of the month' series. The statements of the scientists where from the day when they started the machine for the first test run. This was before they had the problem with the cooling that led to the enormous downtime and damage later...  More info here: 
 http://www.monolake.de/downloads/free_track_2008_10.html

enjoy. robert

Monolake Cern-LHC

non-edited recording of my sound installation 'Eternal Darkness' (http://www.roberthenke.com/installations/eternal_darkness.html). The reverb on the recording is the actual sound of the room. The pipe-like noisy  sounds are generated using physical modeling techniques, and the composition is algorithmic and does never repeat. So this recording is just an excerpt of an infinitely long process. At the beginning of the recording I walked out of the water reservoir and turned on the MaxMSP patch that starts the beast.

Eternal Darkness Installation

Piezo is a piece designed for a 4 bit / 12 Khz / 60 second sound chip with a piezo speaker. It is part of the cover of the catalogue for the sound art exhibition 'Arte Sonora', Madrid, summer 2010. Here is how it sounds when recorded from the chip with a microphone.

Piezo is about the multiple associations connected with audio playback via miniature speakers: Toys, games, watches, alarm signals, mobile communication, user interface sounds, early home computers, laboratory equipment.... The complete transcription of the data on the chip can be found here: http://www.roberthenke.com/downloads/piezo.html

Robert Henke Piezo

Field recordings used on this track captured march 2001 at Venice Beach, Los Angeles, CA and at a hotel pool near Big Sur River. Computer voice: Viki MacInthosh. A slightly different 5.1 version of this track is hidden somewhere in the X-Box 360 version of the Spider Man III game. This is more a background loop than a piece of music...

Monolake Venice Beach

for more info have a look here: 
http://www.roberthenke.com/concerts/layering_buddha.html

Robert Henke Layering Buddha Live 2007

This track is from June 2006. I found it on a backup drive whilst searching for something else. When I made it, I soon felt something is missing, it sounded old and nostalgic too me,  a dead end, a film watched way too often. Now, I feel even more distant to it. My musical interest moved away from anything that could be labeled 'minimal techno', a genre that became mostly totally empty, uninspired and formalized. However, I like the color of this track, this reminiscence to this certain sub-genre of Chain Reaction / post Basic Channel tracks.  If I would have done it in 1995 - fantastic.  

(And if you want to get an idea of my current vision of electronic club music come to a Monolake concert )

http://www.roberthenke.com/downloads/free_track_2008_11.html

Monolake Decay

November 2007. Winter is coming closer. The track here is based on some of the source material for the 2004 album release Signal to Noise, mainly a single recording of a longer pad sound of a Yamaha SY 77 synthesizer. It has been sampled, transposed, filtered and layered a few times to get to the final result.

http://www.roberthenke.com/downloads/free_track_2007_11.html

Robert Henke Oomoo

http://www.roberthenke.com/downloads/free_track_2008_01.html

Robert Henke Fragment Endlos (1992)

http://www.roberthenke.com/downloads/free_track_2007_10.html

Monolake Motion Blur

http://www.roberthenke.com/downloads/free_track_2008_02.html

Robert Henke Plankton uncut

http://www.roberthenke.com/downloads/free_track_2009_05.html

Monolake Yetlag

http://www.roberthenke.com/downloads/free_track_2008_07.html

Monolake Index II-remastered

http://www.roberthenke.com/downloads/free_track_2008_06.html

Monolake Index I-remastered

I found this unreleased version of Plumbicon on a backup drive. Enjoy !

Plumbicon V.271205 01

the thing that happens when you have a modular rig and explain someone how it works .-)

7jan21

outside the snow is falling from the sky,  inside blinking LEDs, patchcords  and hot tea.

7feb21

more snow outside,  more tea inside, and more 'i am not going to edit this for two months but leave it as it is'.

This is the result of making myself familiar with a bunch of new Eurorack modules.  <3

7feb21 - II

another day of exploring old and new machinery. the heating system went down in the building today, but my studio is small and those electronic instruments create a beautiful digital warmth.

i am exploring how to create rhythm and melodic notes without sequencers. it is all envelopes, clock dividers, gate delays, pitch quantisers, LFOs etc. and no master sequencer, just a global clock.

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