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Piercing Music - 2021 Remaster

by Robert Henke

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The musical material of Piercing Music is derived from a multichannel sound installation I created in 1993. Some of the sounds are processed recordings of water, some are purely synthetic. Piercing Music also contains a sample of Wieland Samolak's CD Steady State Music, used by kind permission.

Piercing Music is single one hour long slowly evolving state, more a sculpture than a musical piece. Most of the movement within is stochastic. I made a graphical score, drew curves defining distributions and determine the chance incident of specific events within given periods of time.

The original recording of the installation from 1993 served as background music for a very sweet and remarkable BDSM piercing performance, and this is also where the idea to make this CD was born, and the title had its origin.

Equipment used: Ensoniq ASR-10 (water transformations, additional samples), Yamaha TG-77, Yamaha SY-77, Roland Juno-6( synthetic sounds), Alesis Quadraverb (reverb), Opcode/IRCAM Max 2.0 running on a Apple Macintosh Plus (sequencing, global structure). Mixed with a Roland M-160 directly to DAT.

For the 2021 version I added a few additional layers, all created using the original samples running on the original sampler hardware. And I carried out a quite radical re-mastering, with partially drastic changes in spectral balance.

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released January 8, 2021

created by Robert Henke 1994, reworked in 2021

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Robert Henke / monolake Berlin, Germany

Robert Henke is a composer, visual artist and software developer.
His music oscillates between ambient, contemporary music and club. His project Monolake became one of the key icons of electronic club culture emerging in Berlin 1989. He is one of the main creators of Ableton Live, a software which became the standard for music production and completely redefined performance of electronic music. ... more

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