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Robert Henke at Barbican Centre
Courtesy of Bandsintown | Posted on November 25, 2019
Where
Barbican Centre
Silk Street
London
Map
020 7382 6199
When
Thu, January 23, 2020
00:00
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Musicians
Robert Henke
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German sound and laser artist, composer and software developer (Ableton Live), Robert Henke returns to the Barbican’s contemporary music programme for two performances on 23 January 2020. Here he will present CBM 8032 AV – his latest computer graphics and sound project, which received its premiere at Unsound Festival in October 2019.
In this project, vintage hardware produces an audio-visual experience that is completely modern in its complexity and fluidity. It explores the beauty of simple graphics and sound, using five carefully restored computers from the early 1980’s,
running custom software developed by the artist and his team. The work is about the ambivalence between a contemporary aesthetic and the usage of obsolete and limited technology from 40 years ago. ‘Everything presented within the project could have been done in 1980,’ says Henke, ‘but it needed the cultural backdrop of 2019 to come...