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Catherine Christer HennixSelected Early Keyboard WorksBack to the record
Dusted

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

Bill Meyer · 24 October 2018

Catherine Christer Hennix is a mathematician, composer and musician whose absurdly low profile has not kept her from making crucial theoretical, technical and sonic contributions to minimal and transcendental music since the 1960s. Selected Early Keyboard Works presents three pieces of keyboard music that she recorded during rehearsals for a festival devoted to work by her and American minimalists Terry Riley, Terry Jennings and La Monte Young. It is Hennix’s first record to be pressed to vinyl; for people who think beyond format, it’s also an opportunity to make connections between the music of her youth and the mathematically founded drones that she makes to this day.

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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.”

The Sound Projector

“Unreserved recommendation for this superb release.”

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.”

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.”