Artist:
Monolake
Overview:
AKA Gerhard Behles & Robert Henke.
Format:
CD
Additional Info.:
This is the first Monolake album since the highly-acclaimed Polygon_Cities album from 2006. Monolake is an open project dedicated to computer-generated music, founded in 1995 by Berlin-based Robert Henke and Gerhard Behles. Impressed and influenced by minimal techno music and drum 'n bass, and infused with the sonic richness and sophistication of academic computer music, these poles became the source and inspiration for Monolake's own creations. Silence was composed, mixed and produced by Robert Henke from November 2008-September 2009. Design by snc based on photos captured by Robert Henke. Production notes: Sound sources include field recordings of airport announcements, hammering on metal plates at the former Kabelwerk Oberspree, Berlin, several sounds captured inside the large radio antenna dome at Teufelsberg, Berlin, dripping water at the Botanical Garden Florence, air condition systems and turbines in Las Vegas, Frankfurt and Tokyo, walking on rocks in Joshua Tree National Park, wind from the Grand Canyon, a friend's answering machine, a printer, conversations via mobile phones, typing on an old Macintosh keyboard and recordings from tunnel works in Switzerland. Synthetic sounds exclusively created with the software instruments Operator, Tension, Analog and the build-in effects inside Ableton Live. Additional sound design and sequencing using MAXMSP/MaxForLive. Additional reverb: various impulse responses via Altiverb. Composed, edited and mixed entirely in Live on a MacBook Pro with a pair of Genelec 8040s. Mastering by Rashad Becker at Audioanwendungen, September 2009. Note: there is no compression on this album whatsoever.

Released November 2009.

Track List:
1 Watching Clouds 5:11
2 Infinite Snow 5:59
3 Null Pointer 4:43
4 Far Red 5:52
5 Avalanche 6:28
6 Void 3:18
7 Internal Clock 8:15
8 Shutdown 6:16
9 Reconnect 5:52
10 Observatory 7:50