Robert Henke

Robert Henke

Robert Henke (* 1969 in Munich ) is a German musician. He was a professor of sound design at the Berlin University of the Arts .

life and work

In 1988 Henke was hired as a studio technician in Munich. In 1990 he began studying computer science and communication science at the Technical University of Berlin , but in 1992 he switched to the "Konrad Wolf" University of Film and Television in Potsdam-Babelsberg to study sound design . Henke completed this successfully in 1996 with a thesis on the real-time modeling of non-linear distortions of records .

In the mid-1990s, Robert Henke met Gerhard Behles at the TUB , which resulted in the joint project Monolake a short time later . In 1996, Cyan made her debut on Chain Reaction .

In 1999 Henke and Behles decided to start the software company Ableton with Bernd Roggendorf . Henke took part in the development of the software sequencer Ableton Live and at the same time released new records on the label Imbalance Computer Music , which has meanwhile been founded with Behles - a construction for the publication of their own music or that of close friends.

Robert Henke achieved greater popularity with his performances and multimedia installations that began around 2000, including appearances at the London Tate Modern , the Center Pompidou in Paris , the Luxembourg Mudam , the New York PS1 , the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney and on the Sónar Festival in Barcelona.

The musician Torsten Pröfrock was part of Monolake at times .

Discography (selection)

Henke at a live Atom performance

• 1994: Robert Henke - Piercing Music (Imbalance Recordings)
• 1997: Monolake - Hong Kong (Chain Reaction)
• 1997: Robert Henke - Floating.Point (Imbalance Recordings)
• 1999: Monolake - Interstate (Monolake / Imbalance Computer Music)
• 1999: Monolake - Gobi. The Desert EP (Monolake / Imbalance Computer Music)
• 2001: Monolake - Gravity (Monolake / Imbalance Computer Music)
• 2003: Monolake - Momentum (Monolake / Imbalance Computer Music)
• 2004: Robert Henke - Signal to Noise (Imbalance Computer Music)
• 2005: Monolake - Polygon Cities (Monolake / Imbalance Computer Music)
• 2006: Robert Henke - Layering Buddha (Imbalance Computer Music)
• 2009: Monolake - Silence (Imbalance Computer Music)
• 2009: Robert Henke - Indigo_Transform (Imbalance Computer Music)
• 2012: Monolake - Ghosts (Monolake / Imbalance Computer Music)

Installations and Performances (selection)

• 2004 - Atlantic Wave Terminals
• 2009/2010 - Monolake Live Sorround
• 2010 - Intersection
• 2011/2012 - Fundamental Forces
• 2012 - Monolake Ghosts in Surround
• 2013 - Lumière I
• 2015 - Destructive Observation Field
• 2015 - Lumière II
• 2016 - Deep Web (with Christopher Bauder)

Publications

• 2005: Live Performance 'in Techno Visionen - New Sounds, New Image Spaces , Gratz Medienturm, Folio Verlag
• 2007: Live Performance in the Age of Supercomputers (first published online)
• 2009: Live Performance in the Age of Supercomputers Part II
• 2011: "Death through Abundance, What to Do When Everything is Possible?" , In New Magazine for Music February 2011
• 2015: Interview in: Stefan Goldmann : "Presets - Digital Shortcuts to Sound", The Bookworm, London, 2015, pp. 20–45. ISBN 978-1-874104-02-5

Web links

• Monolake.de - official website (English)
• Robert Henke's page at the UdK Berlin
• Monolake on laut.de
• Robert Henke at Discogs (English)
• Mono Lake in Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.goethe.de/ins/be/bru/kul/dub/rmx/de8773213.htm
2. ↑ http://www.monolake.de/interviews/bio.html
3. ↑ http://www.udk-berlin.de/sites/soundstudies/content/lehrende/prof_robert_henke___leitung_auditive_mediengestaltung/index_ger.html
4. ↑ http://www.boulderweekly.com/article-4933-communikey-creativity.html
5. ↑ http://www.laut.de/Monolake
6. ↑ http://www2.tate.org.uk/intermediaart/ultra.shtm
7. ↑ - ( Memento of the original from July 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.