{"id":124,"date":"2008-02-15T10:03:23","date_gmt":"2008-02-14T23:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/decoded.outer-rim.org\/?p=124"},"modified":"2008-02-22T12:09:29","modified_gmt":"2008-02-22T01:09:29","slug":"robert-henke-layering-buddha-art-gallery-nsw-14022008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/decoded.outer-rim.org\/?p=124","title":{"rendered":"Robert Henke (Monolake) &#8211; &#8220;Layering Buddha&#8221; @ Art Gallery of NSW : 14.02.2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/users.on.net\/~dmccann\/images\/layering_buddha_01.jpg\" alt=\"Robert Henke - Layering Buddha\" \/><\/p>\n<p>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&#8230; An ambient, atmospheric, meditative, sonic journey perhaps? <\/p>\n<p>I loved those massive, layered, deep, spaced, almost sci-fi movie sound-track atmospheres, it reminded me a little of Cliff Martinez &#8211; &#8220;Solaris&#8221; movie soundtrack, with less &#8216;music&#8217; if that makes any sense.<\/p>\n<p>The meditative, multi-layered, choral, evolving drones were mesmerising, along with clever emulations of nature sounds &#8211; water, rain, insects and wind moving around the sound space. <\/p>\n<p>All the sounds are sourced from Buddha Machine&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re a very clever man Robert, and a nice guy too. Really glad I went along, thanks for organising tickets Joanne.<\/p>\n<p>Have a listen&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.monolake.de\/downloads\/layering_buddha_live.html\">http:\/\/www.monolake.de\/downloads\/layering_buddha_live.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I want one of those Buddha Machines&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fm3buddhamachine.com\">http:\/\/www.fm3buddhamachine.com<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.buddha-machine.com\">http:\/\/www.buddha-machine.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8230; 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,8,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/decoded.outer-rim.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/decoded.outer-rim.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/decoded.outer-rim.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/decoded.outer-rim.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/decoded.outer-rim.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/decoded.outer-rim.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/decoded.outer-rim.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/decoded.outer-rim.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/decoded.outer-rim.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}