Catherine Christer Hennix
Catherine Christer Hennix (1948 to 2023) was a Swedish composer, mathematician, poet and visual artist who moved between avant-garde music and the foundations of logic. Trained in the tradition of Xenakis and Stockhausen in the 1960s, she met La Monte Young and the Hindustani raga master Pandit Pran Nath at the Fondation Maeght in 1970 and studied for years with both, bringing a rigorous mathematical basis to just-intonation drone.
Further Selections from the Electric Harpsichord
CD Edition. Rediscovered and compiled for release shortly before her death in November 2023, Further Selections from the Electric Harpsichord presents a never-before-heard recording of composer and artist Catherine Christer Hennix's early magnum opus…
Solo For Tamburium
With Solo for Tamburium, Hennix plays and manipulates recordings of her precisely tuned and continuously sustained tamburas through a keyboard interface, fusing tones into psychoacoustic textures in the style of her early modal works
You Are My Everlovin'
Recorded in a Manhattan loft on 16 June 1981, in one take of forty-two minutes: solo electric violin over a tambura drone played by Catherine Christer Hennix. Flynt coined the term concept art in 1961, picketed Stockhausen in 1964, and briefly replac…
Unbegrenzt
"Unbegrenzt" is the third in an ongoing series of archival records of the unheard music of Swedish composer Catherine Christer Hennix, co-released by Blank Forms Editions and Empty Editions. It follows "Selected Early Keyboard Works" and "Selections …
Poesy Matters and Other Matters (2xBooks)
This two-volume set, Poësy Matters and Other Matters, presents selected texts by the Swedish polymath Catherine Christer Hennix. Volume one, Poësy Matters, is divided into two sections: poetry and drama, with each section also containing pieces of co…
Selections from 100 Models of Hegikan Roku
** Astonishing 1976 recordings of drone works inspired by La Monte Young and the Theatre of Eternal Music ** A co-edition with Empty Editions. Selections from 100 Models of Hegikan Roku is the second in an ongoing series of archival records of the un…
Selected Early Keyboard Works
A co-edition with Empty Editions. Selected Early Keyboard Works is the first in a series of planned archival records of the unheard music of Swedish composer, philosopher, poet, mathematician, and visual artist Catherine Christer Hennix, co-released…
Live At Issue Project Room
BLUES ALIF LAM MIM IN THE MODE OF RAG INFINITY/RAG COSMOSIS is a new composition from Catherine Christer Hennix's expanded just-intonation ensemble, the Chora(s)san Time-Court Mirage. This expanded ensemble includes vocalists Imam Ahmet Muhsin Tüzer,…
Central Palace Music
A single forty-six minute piece recorded at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm in March 1976, during an eight-day festival Hennix organised and named after the intuitionist mathematician Brouwer. Two amplified Renaissance oboes and a sheng against sine …
Svapiti
Born of Six, featuring Amelia Cuni, Catherine Christer Hennix, and Werner Durand, create exemplary drone compositions rooted in the traditions of Dhrupad, early minimalism and just intonation. Composed by Durand, Cuni, Hennix, Svapiti is one long com…
Text-Sound Compositions: A Stockholm Festival
2026 stock. Fylkingen Records in collaboration with the Swedish Radio released a series of LP records with text-sound compositions between the years of 1968-77. All of these were documentations of the international festival Text-Sound Compositions. …
Chora(s)san Time-Court Mirage: Live At The Grimm Museum Vol. 1
2024 restock. The world premiere of the infinitary computer animation NUR, and the accompanying infinitary computer sound composition SOLITON(E) STAR were given at Diapason Gallery (NYC) for the celebration of La Monte Young's 70th birthday in 2005. …
Dharma Warriors
Far-out garage blues from the unpredictable talent of Henry Flynt, here in collaboration with C.C. Hennix. The two lengthy improvisations here straddle the borders between unrefined bluegrass and free-jazz improv. Flynt's freetime chord phrasings are…
The Electric Harpsichord
Finally available again, reprinted in 500 copies only housed in a elegant white boxed edition:: Known to the very few, The Electric Harpsichord is possibly THE obscure masterpiece of the days of the early American minimalism. Recorded live in 1976 …
