Robert Henke, born 1969 in Munich, Bavaria.
Since 1990 working and living in Berlin
1988 - 1995 music for various short films and independent theater productions
1992 - 1996 studied sound engineering at the Hochschule fur Film und Fernsehen, Potsdam-Babelsberg, and computer science at Technische Universitat, Berlin1994 CD release: Piercing Music
1995 founding of the Monolake project with Gerhard Behles
1995 - 1996 sound engineer at Berliner Ensemble Theater
1997 - 1999 mastering engineer at Dubplates and Mastering, Berlin
1997 CD release: Monolake - Hongkong
1997 founding of the Imbalance Computer Music record label
1997 CD release: Floating.Point
1999 CD release: Monolake - Gobi
1999 start working at Ableton (music software) as software conceptualist and instrument designer, helping to develop the award winning Ableton Live software
2000 CD release: Monolake - Gravity
2000 release of version 1 of Ableton Live
2000 audiovisual performance at Festival of Visions, Hong Kong by invitation of the Goethe Institute
2000 concert at the Dutch Electronic Arts Festival, Rotterdam
2001 concert at Metamorphose Festival, Mount Fuji, Japan
2001 CD release: Monolake - Cinemascope
2002 audiovisual performance at ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
2002 concert at Central Park Summerstage, NYC
2002 start of the `Atlantic Waves` network performance project with Scott Montheith / Deadbeat
2003 concert at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Serbia
2003 performance at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Montreal, Canada
2004 Atlantic Waves performance at Netmage Festival, Italy
2004 concert at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Vilnius, Lithuania by invitation of the Goethe Institute
2004 CD release: Signal to Noise
2005 realisation of the "Studies for Thunder" multichannel soundscape at Elektronisches Studio der Technischen Universitat, Berlin.
2005 premiere of Studies for Thunder at MUTEK Festival, Montreal
2005 concert at PS1/MOMA, New York
2005 CD release: Monolake - Polygon Cities
2006 Atlantic Waves performance at Tate Modern, London
2006 CD release: Layering Buddha
2007 premiere of 'Layering Buddha Live' at Transmediale Festival, Berlin
2007 Honorary Mention for Layering Buddha at Prix Ars Electronica, Linz
2007 Artist in Focus at Dis-Patch Festival, Belgrade
2007 premiere of the Cyclone interactive sound installation at Dis-Patch Festival, Belgrade
2007 Artist in Residence at Tesla Media Laboratory Berlin, for the realisation of the ATOM project with Christopher Bauder
2007 premiere of the ATOM in Berlin
2007 release of version 7 of Ableton Live.
2007 'Running Boxes' performance with Lillevan and Wolfgang Mitterer, Krems, Austria
2007 Layering Buddha Live at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sophia, Madrid
2008 Layering Buddha Live at Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
2008 Layering Buddha Live at Planetarium Melbourne, Australia
2008 ATOM performance at Centre Pompidou, Paris
2008 music for the installation TapTim by Fredrik Wretman, Fargfabriken Norr, Sweden