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Artist:
HENNIX, CATHERINE CHRISTER
Title:
The Electric Harpsichord
Label:
DIE SCHACHTEL (ITALY)
Format:
CD/BOOK
Price:
$20.00
Catalog #:
DSART 010CD
Restocked; 2nd pressing with lower pricing. After the limited art edition quickly sold out,
The Electric Harpsichord
is now reprinted -- in its complete form -- in a new elegant white boxed edition. Known to the very few,
The Electric Harpsichord
is possibly THE obscure masterpiece of early American minimalism. Recorded live in 1976 after many years of study under the guidance of
Pandit Pran Nath
and
La Monte Young
, it has finally found the perfect home in the Die Schachtel catalog, now in an elegant white boxed 56-page book+CD edition, that gives the work the space and merit it deserves as a unique work of art, complete with two poems by La Monte Young especially written for this edition, and an extensive essay by
Henry Flynt
. An improvisation performed on just intonation-tuned keyboards put through time-lag accumulators similar to those used by
Terry Riley
, Hennix has produced one of the most remarkable pieces of music to emerge from the La Monte Young school of minimalism. A Sweden-born composer, who studied in the tradition of
Xenakis
and
Stockhausen
in the 1960s, Hennix met La Monte Young and Hindustani raga master Pandit Pran Nath at the Nuits du Fondation Maeght festival in 1970, and pursued studies with both men during the 1970s. While the use of the time-lag in Riley's works such as "A Rainbow In Curved Air" results in an experience of blissful, focused, samadhi-like calm, Hennix's drone work has more in common with the chaotic fluxes of psychedelic experience or the mandalas of Tibetan Buddhism. This is a moving eternity, a pulsating, shifting-something like a raga perhaps, insofar as a raga is a specific deity invoked into sound, fluttering inside the matrix of the drone. Catherine Christer Hennix: keyboard and custom sine wave generators. Recorded live at Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden. Mastered by
Giuseppe Ielasi
.
Artist:
HENNIX, CATHERINE CHRISTER
Title:
Live At The Grimm Museum Vol. 1
Label:
IMPORTANT RECORDS
Format:
CD
Price:
$17.00
Catalog #:
IMPREC 354CD
"
Blues Dhikr Al-Salam
(Blues Al Maqam) for voice, brass, computer and live electronics in the mixed-media environment Nur/Soliton(E) Star. 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. Catherine Christer Hennix has now extended this installation in the venerable tradition of the pentatonic blues for a live-electronic ensemble. Recorded live on Sunday August 14, 2011 at the Grimm Museum, Berlin."
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