That was an awesome experience. Fantastic, layered, morphing, evolving, sonic textures, heard in a surround sound setting, best experienced with your eyes closed. Very difficult to describe really… An ambient, atmospheric, meditative, sonic journey perhaps?
I loved those massive, layered, deep, spaced, almost sci-fi movie sound-track atmospheres, it reminded me a little of Cliff Martinez – “Solaris” movie soundtrack, with less ‘music’ if that makes any sense.
The meditative, multi-layered, choral, evolving drones were mesmerising, along with clever emulations of nature sounds – water, rain, insects and wind moving around the sound space.
All the sounds are sourced from Buddha Machine’s loops and then manipulated live with audio software (Ableton?) out of a laptop, sent through a multi-channel audio interface (Motu Ultralite) to amps/speakers around the space.
You’re a very clever man Robert, and a nice guy too. Really glad I went along, thanks for organising tickets Joanne.
Have a listen…
http://www.monolake.de/downloads/layering_buddha_live.html
I want one of those Buddha Machines…
http://www.fm3buddhamachine.com
http://www.buddha-machine.com
oops. some parts of my reply were missing…. never mind…just wanted to say thanx for the nice review !!!!
r.
Comment by Robert Henke — February 21, 2008 @ 10:30 am
Hi Dave
just a thankyou for the kind words. I brought Robert out.
We’ll do it again in 2010 I imagine.
Can you send me an email so we can spam you in advance next time?
all the best
Alan
Comment by Alan — February 23, 2008 @ 7:25 pm