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Robert Henke

In addition to his work with the Keith Franklin, trumpet player and composer Rob Henke serves as musical director of The Spirit of Life Ensemble. Rob has worked with a wide array of bands and characters, including Nick Didkovsky's Doctor Nerve, The Tours Soundpainting Orchestra, Gary Lucas, Phillip Johnston, Ray Barretto, The Walter Thompson Orchestra, and Diane Moser's Composer's Big Band.

He also regularly performs in Europe with the trio Tricycle, joined by Jody Espina and Rolf Sturm. The group most recently played music to films of Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin at the Savannah Jazz Festival.

He has written and performed sketch comedy at the Upright Citizen's Brigade Theater in New York City, and with The Lunatic Fringe in Montclair, NJ.

His recording, Footnotes, was funded and cited by the Aaron Copland Foundation.

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Robert Henke: Layering Buddha

Read "Layering Buddha" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


Synthesist Robert Henke celebrates the FM3 Buddha Machine on this richly ambient production that parlays the instrumentation-based sounds/loops into a sort of omnipresent reckoning. Henke cites the unit's imperfections, sampling rates and other processes with a great deal of depth and insight, especially for the micro-processor engineers out there.

The artist extracts elongated sounds and weaves them into minimalist frameworks. Think of Brian Eno's early expansive, ambient-electronic musings, for example. On Layering Buddha, Henke uses A/D converters and ...

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Layering Buddha

Imbalance Computer Music
2006

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