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Several of her archival recordings have been released in the 21st century, most prominently The Electric Harpsichord (2010). Hennix was affiliated with MIT's AI Lab in the late 1970s and was later employed as research professor of mathematics at SUNY New Paltz; she also worked with mathematician Alexander Esenin-Volpin.
Sep 11, 2011 · Catherine Christer Hennix - The Electric Harpsichord [1 of 2] TheAmbientFox. 1.36K subscribers. Subscribed. 398. 24K views 12 years ago. The Electric Harpsichord, 1976 ...more.
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Nov 25, 2023 · She fused her mathematical knowledge with minimalist sounds and global spiritual traditions, most notably in her 1976 composition “The Electric Harpsichord.”
May 6, 2011 · C. CHRISTER HENNIX The Electric Harpsichord. out on Die Schachtel's the 1976 largely neglected masterpiece from Swedish-born composer Catherine Christer Hennix, a disciple of LaMonte...
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Catherine Christer Hennix’s poster design for the 1976 Brouwer’s Lattice music festival at the Moderna Museet, Stockholm, at which The Electric Harpsichord was performed and recorded. It was a constructed audio program: I never thought of it as music.
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Nov 26, 2023 · It was at that festival that she performed “The Electric Harpsichord,” one of her most well-known compositions. Over a constant underlying drone, Hennix improvised on a Yamaha keyboard scaled...
The piece itself is performed on a tunable Yamaha keyboard using the harpsichord stop, abetted by custom sine wave generators. And the 25-minute slice offered here – all there is of it, in documented terms – is only a few moments of an “infinitary composition” that is essentially endless.
