Robert Henke

Robert Henke, born in 1969 in Munich and living in Berlin, is a German computer music artist who works in audiovisual installation, music and performance. He comes from an engineering background and builds his own instruments and algorithms as part of his creative process, working with computer-generated sound and images, field recordings, photography and light, and in recent years with high-power lasers. He is a co-creator of the music software Ableton Live, with Gerhard Behles, and since 1995 he has produced electronic music as Monolake, a project he founded in collaboration with Behles. He writes and lectures about sound and the creative use of computers at the Berlin University of the Arts, at Stanford University's CCRMA and at Le Fresnoy in Lille. His installations and performances have been shown at Tate Modern, the Centre Pompidou, MUDAM Luxembourg and the KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin.