I owe a lot of my insight into computer generated music and even more inspiration to the Electronic Studio of the Technical University here in Berlin. This studio has a long history, starting in 1953, and it serves as a space for research in the field of generation and manipulation of sound, but also as a place where composers can realize their music. My piece Studies for Thunder is an example for this.

To celebrate the 65th birthday of its long term director, Folkmar Hein in February 2009, the composers who were working in the studio over the years have been asked to provide a 65 second long piece. Here is my contribution:

Hommage_17.mp3
The piece is a montage of little gestures, mainly created using various kinds of synthesis. Other material is the result of processing a recording of walking on stones in a desert, a recording from inside my kitchen fridge, my coffee maker, and a fax machine. As usual all asembled and processed in Ableton Live with a bit of MAX/MSP.

I spent quite some time with that little exercise, and in fact I created seventeen (!!) versions of the piece over a period of four weeks. Here are two earlier versions that show the process:

Hommage_01.mp3
Hommage_10.mp3
L I C E N S E _ T E R M S :

Things you can do with the free track:
- download it and listen to it
- copy it to any media you need in order to listen to it

Things we do not want you to do:
- do not upload to p2p servers
- do not distribute the track
- do not link the mp3 file directly
Everyone who wants it is invited to download it from this page

If you disagree do not download.

Enjoy the music
Robert Henke