Robert Henke

May 17 - Dust - IT - Cuneo - Complesso Monumentale di San Francesco - Fonorama
May 24 - Lumière-III - CH - Geneva - Grand Théâtre de Genève - Mapping Festival
May 27 - Dust - DE - Herne - Alter Wartesaal - Blaues Rauschen
Lumiere III

Lumière-III - final performance - at Mapping Festival Geneva, May 24. I started working with lasers in 2012 with the 'Fragile Territories' installation, and in 2013 the first version of Lumière had its premiere. At that time no commercial laser control software could accomplish the things I am interested in. I did develop my own unique system for real time laser graphics, which I refined in the years to come, and which inspired amongst others the creators of Touch Designer to implement their own laser control after seeing my Lumière II show in Toronto in 2015. I am currently working on a completely new laser based audiovisual performance, for which I once again write a new control system. As preparation for this very last performance of Lumière-III I tested the setup recently, and with great joy I realised it still is a great artistic and technical achievement, even by the standards of 2025. I am looking forward to show the work one last time at Mapping Festival, and I also am looking forward to some day present my next laser performance, once it is ready.

monolake gravity lp cover

April 2025 - The Monoake album 'Gravity' from 2001, previously only available on CD now as vinyl re-release via Field Records as black or limited edition orange double LP.

photo of my old studio in 2003

The Studio Paradox: When did it become too much? A short essay about the role of tools and the struggles of being creative.

Operator synth for Ableton Live by Robert Henke

Let's celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Operator synthesizer for Ableton Live!

Monolake Studio

The new Monolake album is out now.

CBM 8032 AV

Before the start of CBM 8032 AV at Philharmonie Berlin, Germany, February 4, 2023. Photo by Erwin Roebroeks.

CBM 8032 AV

Audiovisual concert for five iconic personal computers from the early 1980’s.

Monolake 8bit

Monolake Modena 20232024

Monolake 8bit

Bass music with historic computers

Monolake Modena 20232024

Monolake Modena 20232024

Monolake Modena 20232024

Site-specific laser performance

Site-specific performance on December 31, 2023 in Modena, Italy, celebrating the last hour of the year. A free-of-charge, open-air event with sound and laser graphics, projecting on the 90m long and 17m high wall of the former Sant’Agostino hospital, commissioned by NODE Festival.

Fragile Territories

Fragile Territories opening

Fragile Territories

Audiovisual laser installation

What defines a territory? Who occupies which space and when? Fragile Territories is about negotiation of space, using four lasers to paint a complex evolving structure made of light.

Studio

Monolake Studio

Gobi. The Desert EP

Gobi

Hongkong

Hongkong

RMX-c

rmx-c

Firebird

Firebird

Granulator III

Granulator III

Dust

Dust

From Within...

From Within...

Deep Web

Deep Web

Phosphor

Phosphor

Noise Patterns

Noise Patterns

D. O. F.

dof

The story of Ableton

Ableton

The story of Ableton

One adds and the other subtracts.

An interview with Gerhard Behles and Robert Henke about the genesis of music software company Ableton.