Catherine Christer Hennix: Solo for Tamburium Format:Digital

Catherine Christer Hennix: Solo for Tamburium Format:DigitalThe fourth release in Blank Forms Editionss initiative to chart the ever expanding musical practice of Catherine Christer Hennix, Solo for Tamburium captures the composers most recent major work. Hennix plays an instrument of her own creation, a keyboard interface controlling a suite of eighty eight recordings of precision tuned tambura, creating a sweeping and continuous flow of rich harmonic interplay. This piece, documented in Berlin at MaerzMusik

“Sound Machine

the vocalists incant a devotional poem written in Arabic by Hennix and featuring quotations from the Quran

This structure leads readers carefully into the composer’s musical thought as it develops and transforms over time

James Tenney

to study the winding paths taken by Catherine Christer Hennix in five decades of virtually peerless exploration

“Relativity Suite

but instead cite the cut-up affect of UK garage as the impetus for their sparse treatment of chords and words as samples

A study in anticipation

a quartet with Arthur Rhames

while their arrangement of the traditional Zimbabwean tune “Guabi Guabi” is a bright Dead/Feat-like jaunt with blissed-out wah-wah pay-off

he has eschewed any pretense of control in his highly-improvisational music—assembling ragtag groups of untrained musicians to perform as his Maher Shalal Hash Baz ensemble

Nearly without fail they were removed by inclement weather