Ger­man sound-artist and musi­cian Robert Henke — he also records pret­ty great min­i­mal tech­no as Mono­lake — is in the midst of a tour of Aus­tralia and New Zealand.

At 9pm on Fri­day night he is doing one of his famous Lay­er­ing Bud­dha per­for­mances at the Adam Con­cert Room, at VUW. There will also be an address by Henke at 6pm the pre­ced­ing night, at the same venue.

Dur­ing the per­for­mance the audi­ence is placed in between a ring of six speak­ers with the per­former sit­ting in between them in the cen­ter. The lay­ers of sound are dynam­i­cal­ly dis­trib­uted in space, pro­vid­ing an expe­ri­ence of being real­ly placed in between the son­ic cloud where the acoustic result depends on the posi­tion of the lis­ten­er.

More after the break, includ­ing audio! Elec­trons! Down­loads! Joy!

You can down­load a record­ing of a Robert Henke Lay­er­ing Bud­dha show from his site. In glo­ri­ous bin­au­r­al sound (mixed down from six chan­nels).

Robert Henke Artist Talk
6pm, Thurs­day Feb­ru­ary 28 2008
Adam Con­cert Room
Entry: koha
Robert Henke: Lay­er­ing Bud­dha
9pm, Fri­day Feb­ru­ary 29 2008
Adam Con­cert Room
Entry: $10/8