Sarah Hennies
Sarah Hennies is a percussionist and composer. Her work is primarily concerned with
an immersive, psychoacoustic presentation of sound brought about by an
often grueling, endurance-based performance practice that Nathan Thomas
of Fluid Radio described as, "a highly sophisticated and refined
performance technique...that starts and ends with listening and
encourages a different way of listening from its audience.
Sarah Hennies is a percussionist and composer. Her work is primarily concerned with
an immersive, psychoacoustic presentation of sound brought about by an
often grueling, endurance-based performance practice that Nathan Thomas
of Fluid Radio described as, "a highly sophisticated and refined
performance technique...that starts and ends with listening and
encourages a different way of listening from its audience.
Transits: Volume 1
Big tip! American percussionist and composer Michael Ranta is a legendary figure who has worked with some of the most significant names of 20th century music but despite this and impressive body of work of his own, he has remained an obscure figure....
Important Records and is pleased to present Transits: Volume 1 the first in a series of releases by composer/percussionist Sarah Hennies documenting never before heard chamber works mostly composed in the 1970s while Ranta was living in Taiwan.
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First Fire • At Dawn (Tape)
100 copies on Yellow cassette shell. John kolodij - guitar, banjo, etc, anna rg - fiddle, sarah hennies - percussion
Mastered by Stephan MathieuArtwork by Myste FrenchLayout by Tiny Little Hammers
The Reinvention of Romance
“The Reinvention of Romance,” a new work for percussion and cello that examines the care and empathy that emerge when two lives share space. Over the course of 90 minutes, a series of repeating patterns creates a peculiar kind of harmony in which two musicians are rarely “playing together” but are nonetheless intimately bonded. The Knoxville-based duo Two-Way Street (Ashlee Booth and Adam Lion) commissioned Hennies to compose “a very long piece;” for this recording they step into its two intertw…
Gather & Release
2016 release (RARE) ** Edition of 200 in printed cardstock sleeve with needle and thread stitched through cover packaged in a poly sleeve with sticker attached. "Gather & Release is the result of years worth of composer Sarah Hennies' exploration of the vibraphone in synthesis with her experiences of identity, obsession, anxiety, tension, grief, and loss. Over the course of an hour, Hennies entangles highly focused percussion playing with field recordings, sine waves, signifiers from her persona…