REPRESSED. "In 1993, Robert Henke, Now better known as Monolake, created a sound installation which ran for a few weeks in an office building. The positive reaction of the audience lead to a discussion about making a record out of it, which later became his first release. It went out of print a few years ago but is now available once again, newly packaged, in a second edition. Piercing Music, is a one hour journey into a dark, warm, and sometime pretty noisy world, full of artificial life, created long before term like "glitch and "microsampling" were real words. This is Robert Henke's most serious academic work, composed using controlled random distributions to create a synthetic structure which behaves 'naturally'; this is achieved by deconstructing sound into tiny little particles and embeding them into a grid of slow permuting deep drones. Today, ten year later, it still sounds up-to-date and stands out as a unique piece of music. Robert Henke is currently occupied with creating massive beats and complex textures as Monolake and with the ongoing development of the revolutionary music software Abelton Live"
(This is probably my favorite ambient recording ever and if you are into that sort of thing it is definitely worth checking out. This has been OOP for a long time and very expensive as a collectors item, it is a good time to get ahold of a copy.)
― Mike Taylor (mjt), Monday, 8 September 2003 18:16 (twenty-one years ago)
― Andy K (Andy K), Monday, 8 September 2003 18:33 (twenty-one years ago)
As a heads-up Reinhard Voight will be playing live and Michael Mayer will be DJ'ing at Panacea on the 27th of September for the Paxahau 5 year annversary party.
― Mike Taylor (mjt), Monday, 8 September 2003 18:50 (twenty-one years ago)
― Robert Weale, Tuesday, 6 April 2004 11:06 (twenty-one years ago)
^^ ???
Every time I hear "Studies for Thunder" it scares me. Is this all ILX has to say about Robert Henke?
― ghee hee hee (La Lechera), Friday, 6 August 2010 14:13 (fourteen years ago)
looks like david cross iirc
― the itsytitchyschneider (s1ocki), Friday, 6 August 2010 14:21 (fourteen years ago)
Signal to Noise makes me feel like I'm hearing things/going crazy. Depending on my mood, this can make for an interesting listening experience, or a terrifying one. Either way, it's something. Don't know that much about Monolake or his other stuff though.
― ghee hee hee (La Lechera), Friday, 6 August 2010 14:28 (fourteen years ago)
he does look like david cross https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjtIWz8YXw0&feature=related
― ghee hee hee (La Lechera), Friday, 6 August 2010 14:31 (fourteen years ago)
monolake is boring imo
― emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Friday, 6 August 2010 14:32 (fourteen years ago)
(from the couple tracks i've heard anyway)
Dude is waaaaay too prolific to write off because of a couple of tracks. Especially given how incredibly not boring his work tends to be.
― I'm banishing you to a time warp from which you will never return (EDB), Friday, 6 August 2010 15:21 (fourteen years ago)
what's a not boring track i should listen to?
― emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Friday, 6 August 2010 15:27 (fourteen years ago)
I wonder if Robert Weale ever found what he was looking for. He doesn't appear to have found it here.
― ghee hee hee (La Lechera), Friday, 6 August 2010 15:36 (fourteen years ago)
Hong Kong is an excellent album.
In more recent terms, this is pretty good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIE4BQMQa88&feature=related
― I'm banishing you to a time warp from which you will never return (EDB), Friday, 6 August 2010 16:25 (fourteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=si4RIvKtYLc
― richie aprile (rockapads), Saturday, 7 August 2010 20:17 (fourteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9G1ODacdr-k
― richie aprile (rockapads), Saturday, 7 August 2010 20:21 (fourteen years ago)
the whole "Hong Kong" album is awesome as a *complete listening experience* imo; if you just jumped straight to "Mass Transit Railway" then the horn part isn't such a stunning surprise- you need to hear the whole thing from start to finish to really get it, I think. That said, so many people bit his sound for so long that it might just remind you of the imitators/clones.
― twice boiled cabbage is death, Saturday, 7 August 2010 20:21 (fourteen years ago)
Monolake is best enjoyed on headphones while riding through industrial areas late at night imo
― richie aprile (rockapads), Saturday, 7 August 2010 20:24 (fourteen years ago)
this album is incredible. one of the few examples of dark ambient i own that is genuinely disturbing. just completely alters the vibe of a room
i fell asleep the first time i listened to this and woke much later feeling slightly spun out that it was still playing. half asleep and confused pressing stop on the cd player, then eventually ejecting the cd, but the music was still playing -- turns out it was the sound of water dripping from a pipe outside my window. freaked me out
i love how it was made as background music for some s&m performance
― that habit kick man (r1o natsume), Saturday, 7 August 2010 20:42 (fourteen years ago)
i just put this on now. amazing music
― that habit kick man (r1o natsume), Saturday, 7 August 2010 22:43 (fourteen years ago)
I was thinking about this guy the other day (trying to remember his name tbrr) and it turns out he invented an instrument, the Granulator. http://www.monolake.de/technology/granulator.html
It's free, and he wants people to use it. He only has this to say:
In case you really enjoy the instrument, and you are going to use it for your own artistic works, I would love to get something back from you. Send me your music, send me a book you like, or what ever you think could be inspiring. You'll find my address in the HELP menu of the Granulator.
― Garyln (La Lechera), Thursday, 26 May 2011 22:00 (fourteen years ago)
well he also invented ableton live
― sisilafami, Thursday, 26 May 2011 23:10 (fourteen years ago)