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

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The recording of Ciudad de las sombras is released at "Contemporánea", KECD 3 2001, performed by Fritz Gerhard Berthelsen. The title, translatable to The City of Shadows, is not a concrete place. It could be Bogotá, it could be Paris, Athens or Copenhagen, or it is more likely a spot in consciousness… The piece is written and dedicated to Fritz Gerhard Berthelsen. It was written as a part of the music theater performance "Happy in Dorado City" (1998-99) by Wolfgang Häntsch, in which the motto was: "The human existential bankruptcy in the shadow of the metropolis". It was written while I was supported by the three-year working grant (1998-2000) of The Danish Arts Foundation.

Ciudad de las sombras (1999-2000)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPfuphg2frY&lc=UgxfREBZyxeZcj_rdtp4AaABAg

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hysteria acrobat

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full frequency electronics

faffing about with max sequencers and shoddy improv
one of my best jams still i think, i was feeling it and still am

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they lost to the noise

Composer Ejnar Kanding (b. 1965) is internationally known for his unique colourful sound, where the electronic and acoustic are united in complex textures, physical energy and delicate simplicity. To him, music should not embellish, but be a realm of fantasy. A journey into the ambiguous – a hall of mirrors. Kanding originally got his degree in composition and musical theory at The Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen in 1993, followed by studies at IRCAM in Paris and with Professor Lev Koblyakov in Jerusalem in 1994 and 95, but has since his debut concert from the Royal Danish Academy of Music in 1996 specialized himself in composing music for computer and instruments. This has led to an extensive use of the software MaxMSP in the development of his works and as an instrument in live performances. Despite this obsession his focus is never the electronic experiment, but always the musical expression, form and phrase.
The way Kanding uses the digital mixing console and MaxMSP as an instrument is pioneering the new assignment as a musician which is known as live electronics or sound direction. His virtuosity in this field has led to numerous performances of own works or others of both improvised and written music with various groups, for example, works by Saariaho , Nono and Stockhausen; and ensembles as Cikada (NO), Ars Nova (SE), Jack Quartet (NYC), Transit ensemble (NYC) and Adpater (DE).

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