{"id":2707,"date":"2008-01-04T01:13:57","date_gmt":"2008-01-04T01:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=2707"},"modified":"2011-05-17T19:05:04","modified_gmt":"2011-05-17T18:05:04","slug":"fragment-endlos-by-robert-henke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/01\/04\/fragment-endlos-by-robert-henke\/","title":{"rendered":"Fragment Endloss by Robert Henke"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’ve mentioned before that Robert Henke, aka Monolake<\/a>, is one of my favourite electronic musicians, and it was great last year when he reinstated his habit of offering a free download each month. Unlike the short fragments or scraps that many artists throw for free to audiences there’s been some substantial work on offer, such as an hour-long live performance of his Layering Buddha<\/em> set.<\/p>\n

The download for this month is a perfect soundtrack to accompany the New Year chill, Fragment Endloss<\/em><\/a>, a 30-minute piece of ambient drift from 1992, reworked slightly for 2008.<\/p>\n

This is a very personal piece for me, created in a time where I felt quite dark and lived in an appropriate environment. I just had moved from West-Berlin, Neukoelln, to the east, to Prenzlauer Berg, which at that time was not the expensive hippster neighborhood it is now, but the very opposite. I lived in a small place on the ground floor in a backyard, with a coal oven and a toilet outside the building… It was the end of winter, cold, unfriendly, and very dark. Pretty much like on the pictures above.<\/p>\n

Musically this is influenced by ‘The Pearl’ (Brian Eno, Harold Budd). Sound design wise it shows that I just go the TG-77 and SY-77, and then there is this one long brass-like sound that I made as a result of listening to John Chowning.<\/p>\n

For the free track of the month version I slightly edited the original 45 minute version and added field recordings of Bahnhof Zoo and the S-Bahn here in Berlin which I also captured in 1992.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\n\u2022 Live Performance in the Age of Supercomputing<\/a>
\n\u2022 Layering Buddha by Robert Henke<\/a>
\n\u2022 New Monolake<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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