Henke’s work truly fascinates me, and really encourages me to step out of my comfort zone when making sonic work.
His use of code and hardware design is mind-blowing, and whilst crafts such as coding appear extremely daunting to me, it makes me feel like maybe I could incorporate such a practice into my work. His DIY sound approach creates a mechanical backbone to his sonics, like machinery working underneath to power what is there at the top, except that said machinery isn’t purely underlying, something I never thought would sound as good as Henke makes it sound.
His use of location-specific work really speaks to me too, the idea of a piece of art only being able to become its true, most perfect form, in a specific space, and nowhere else is an idea I feel like intertwines with my work slightly. There’s a sweet arrogance to that tendency and Im all for it.
Combining club and contemporary culture within his work, Henke is able to convey the atmospheres of both worlds, using spatial/multi-channel techniques. A true pioneer.