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Catherine Christer HennixSelected Early Keyboard WorksBack to the record
The Sound Projector

“Unreserved recommendation for this superb release.”

Ed Pinsent · 20 March 2019

The music of Catherine Christer Hennix is entirely new to me, but there’s a programme of effort underway just now to shed more light on the achievements of this Swedish composer who was active in the 1960s and 1970s, and was associated with prominent big-shot American minimalist composers such as La Monte Young and Henry Flynt; she was even drawn into the Sufi raga drone thing, and studied for a time under Pandit Pran Nath. Besides being a composer, she also wrote poetry, texts, and was a visual artist who also studied mathematics, computer science, and philosophy; in fact the label who co-issued today’s double LP, Blank Forms, are intending to publish a collection of her writings in two volumes called Poesy Matters and Other Matters.

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6 other reviews

Pitchfork

“While some of the most revered minimalist composers and compositions present a calm exterior, these newly discovered efforts of Hennix show us a disquieting—and welcome—new wrinkle to those serene surfaces.”

Vital Weekly

“The last piece is ‘Equal Temperament Fender Mix’ on the fourth side takes this tape-delay/tape-loop system further on a Fender piano and it is not easy not to think Terry Riley’s experiments in the mid 60s and Hennix’ piece has a similar haunting, trance like state.”

Exclaim!

“The early pieces presented here are mesmerizing.”

Brainwashed

“As whole, Selected Early Keyboard Works is a strong collection that illuminates an early and formative phase in Hennix’s development into a formidable and truly unique composer.”

Dusted

“The effect is dizzying, and the message clear; even mathematically flawed tools can yield transcendental results.”

The Wire

“In this, as with The Equal Temperament Fender Mix (which adds a tape delay system), the hallucinatory effect of sustained listening is one of music and matter that creates its own time.”