“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.”
A long time ago I was working for a music festival in The Netherlands and the curator, the sadly missed Anton Viergever, told me about a composer he wanted to invite from the early minimalists scene and it was a new name for; Catherine Christer Hennix, who was then living in Amsterdam, and by all means a name not many people heard of then, not at least the posse I was hanging with. This was in 2005 or 2006 and since then there have been several releases with her music, none of which made it to these pages. I was quite impressed back then by her music. Hennix was born in Stockholm in 1948 and pioneered with synthesizers and tape music at EMS in that city, before moving to New York and becoming involved with Fluxus. She worked with Henry Flynt and La Monte Young and studied raga with Pandit Pran Nath. She is also a professor of Mathematics and Computer science. These she lives in Berlin.
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