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Catherine Christer Hennix
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Hennix at Sonic Acts lecture in 2012
Born1948
Stockholm, Sweden
OccupationMathematician, musician, philosopher, visual artist, poet
MovementUltraintuitionism, minimalism
Musical career
InstrumentsVoice, keyboards, tambura, oboe, computer, drums
Years activeLate 1960s – present
LabelsLocust, Blank Forms, Empty, Die Schachtel, Important
Associated actsHenry Flynt, La Monte Young, Pran Nath, Arthur Rhames, Marc Johnson, Arthur Russell, Dharma Warriors, Chora(s)san Time-Court Mirage, Born of Six, The Deontic Miracle, Hilbert Hotel

Catherine Christer Hennix (also known as C.C. Hennix, born 1948) is a Swedish musician, poet, philosopher, mathematician and visual artist. As a musician, she has worked with figures such as Pandit Pran Nath, La Monte Young, and Henry Flynt. 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.[1]

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Biography

Catherine Christer Hennix grew up in a musical environment; her mother was a jazz composer who frequently invited well-known American jazz musicians such as Idrees Sulieman and Eric Dolphy around the house, and she saw John Coltrane and others perform.[2] Hennix took up drums and performed with her brother. Later, Hennix studied with Stockhausen and was among the pioneers in Sweden experimenting with main-frame computer generated composite sound wave forms in the late 1960s.[2] She studied bio-chemistry and then linguistics at university before settling on mathematical logic and philosophy.[2]

In the 1970s, she connected with Fluxus artists Dick Higgins and Allison Knowles in New York, and began collaborative relationships with figures such as La Monte Young and Henry Flynt.[3] She pursued studies with raga master Pandit Pran Nath[3] and led the just intonation live-electronic ensembles Hilbert Hotel and The Deontic Miracle. At the urging of Nath, she also pursued a career as a professor of mathematics and computer science, and assistant to and coauthor with Alexander Esenin-Volpin for which she was given the Centenary Prize Fellow Award by the Clay Mathematics Institute in 2000.[4] She was affiliated with MIT's AI Lab in the late 1970s and was later employed as research professor of mathematics at SUNY New Paltz. In the 1990s, she relocated to Paris to study psychoanalysis with students of Jacques Lacan.

Hennix's interest in drone music is crossed with her interests in jazz, Arabic music, Sufi Islamic art, and blues elements. In the 1970s and 1980s, she played with musicians such as Arthur Russell and Arthur Rhames.[3] She also performed in Flynt's group Dharma Warriors. Archival recordings such as The Electric Harpsichord (2010) and Selected Early Keyboard Works (2018) saw release in the 21st century. In recent years, she has performed with her group the Chora(s)san Time-Court Mirage. In 2019, many of her writings were published in the two-volume collection Poësy Matters and Other Matters.

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Jazz

Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major form of musical expression in traditional and popular music. Jazz is characterized by swing and blue notes, complex chords, call and response vocals, polyrhythms and improvisation. Jazz has roots in European harmony and African rhythmic rituals.

Idrees Sulieman

Idrees Sulieman

Idrees Sulieman was an American bop and hard bop trumpeter.

Eric Dolphy

Eric Dolphy

Eric Allan Dolphy Jr. was an American jazz alto saxophonist, bass clarinetist and flautist. On a few occasions, he also played the clarinet and piccolo. Dolphy was one of several multi-instrumentalists to gain prominence in the same era. His use of the bass clarinet helped to establish the instrument within jazz. Dolphy extended the vocabulary and boundaries of the alto saxophone, and was among the earliest significant jazz flute soloists.

John Coltrane

John Coltrane

John William Coltrane was an American jazz saxophonist, bandleader and composer. He is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of jazz and 20th-century music.

Linguistics

Linguistics

Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. It is called a scientific study because it entails a comprehensive, systematic, objective, and precise analysis of all aspects of language — cognitive, social, environmental, biological as well as structural.

Fluxus

Fluxus

Fluxus was an international, interdisciplinary community of artists, composers, designers and poets during the 1960s and 1970s who engaged in experimental art performances which emphasized the artistic process over the finished product. Fluxus is known for experimental contributions to different artistic media and disciplines and for generating new art forms. These art forms include intermedia, a term coined by Fluxus artist Dick Higgins; conceptual art, first developed by Henry Flynt, an artist contentiously associated with Fluxus; and video art, first pioneered by Nam June Paik and Wolf Vostell. Dutch gallerist and art critic Harry Ruhé describes Fluxus as "the most radical and experimental art movement of the sixties".

Dick Higgins

Dick Higgins

Dick Higgins was an American artist, composer, art theorist, poet, publisher, printmaker, and a co-founder of the Fluxus international artistic movement. Inspired by John Cage, Higgins was an early pioneer of electronic correspondence. Higgins coined the word intermedia to describe his artistic activities, defining it in a 1965 essay by the same name, published in the first number of the Something Else Newsletter. His most notable audio contributions include Danger Music scores and the Intermedia concept to describe the ineffable inter-disciplinary activities that became prevalent in the 1960s.

La Monte Young

La Monte Young

La Monte Thornton Young is an American composer, musician, and performance artist recognized as one of the first American minimalist composers and a central figure in Fluxus and post-war avant-garde music. He is best known for his exploration of sustained tones, beginning with his 1958 composition Trio for Strings. His compositions have called into question the nature and definition of music, most prominently in the text scores of his Compositions 1960. While few of his recordings remain in print, his work has inspired prominent musicians across various genres, including avant-garde, rock, and ambient music.

Henry Flynt

Henry Flynt

Henry Flynt is an American philosopher, musician, writer, activist, and artist connected to the 1960s New York avant-garde. He coined the term "concept art" in the early 1960s, during which time he was associated with figures in the Fluxus scene. He later received attention for his anti-art demonstrations against New York cultural institutions in 1963 and 1964.

Just intonation

Just intonation

In music, just intonation or pure intonation is the tuning of musical intervals as whole number ratios of frequencies. An interval tuned in this way is said to be pure, and is called a just interval. Just intervals consist of tones from a single harmonic series of an implied fundamental. For example, in the diagram, if the notes G3 and C4 are tuned as members of the harmonic series of the lowest C, their frequencies will be 3 and 4 times the fundamental frequency. The interval ratio between C4 and G3 is therefore 4:3, a just fourth.

Alexander Esenin-Volpin

Alexander Esenin-Volpin

Alexander Sergeyevich Esenin-Volpin was a Russian-American poet and mathematician.

Clay Mathematics Institute

Clay Mathematics Institute

The Clay Mathematics Institute (CMI) is a private, non-profit foundation dedicated to increasing and disseminating mathematical knowledge. Formerly based in Peterborough, New Hampshire, the corporate address is now in Denver, Colorado. CMI's scientific activities are managed from the President's office in Oxford, United Kingdom. It gives out various awards and sponsorships to promising mathematicians. The institute was founded in 1998 through the sponsorship of Boston businessman Landon T. Clay. Harvard mathematician Arthur Jaffe was the first president of CMI.

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Bibliography
  • "Notes on Toposes and Adjoints" (1976)
  • "Notes on Intuitionisitc Modal Music" (1976)
  • "Intensional Logics for Intransitive Experiences" (1979)
  • "Parmenides on Intensional Logics" (1979)
  • "Poetry as Philosophy, Poetry as Notation" (1985)
  • "Philosophy of Concept Art" [co-authored with Flynt] (1989)
  • "Hors-texte '68–'88; Finis Universatum: Philosophy as Art/ Philosophy as Notation, II" (1989)
  • "Grammatica tua sit tibi in periditionem" (1992)
  • "Seminarium över La Sinthome och Mathémkonstent genealogik" (1994)
  • "Beware of the Gödel-Wette Paradox" – [co-authored with Esenin-Volpin] (2001)
  • Poësy Matters and Other Matters (2019)
List of works
  • "The Hashigakari Chord" (1973–) [infinitary composite sound wave]
  • "Central Palace Music" (1976–) [two amplified renaissance oboes, amplified sheng, sine waves]
  • "Netori / Hashigakari" (1976–) [amplified renaissance oboe, amplified sheng, sine waves]
  • "Waves of the Blue Sea" (1976–) [two amplified renaissance oboes, sine waves]
  • "The Electric Harpsichord" (1976–) [well-tuned Yamaha keyboard. sine waves]
  • "Five Times Repeated Music" (1976–) [two amplified renaissance oboes, sine waves]
  • "Soliton(e) Star" (2003–) [infinitary composite sound wave]
  • "Blues Dhkir al-Salam (Blues al Maqam)" (2011–)
  • "Rag Infinity/Rag Cosmosis" (2013–) (well-tuned Yamaha keyboard, computer, sine waves]
  • "Blues Alif Lam Mim" (2015–)
  • "For Brass and Computer" (2017) [trumpet, French horn, trombone, microtonal tuba and computer ]
Discography

Releases credited to Hennix and her various groups.

Solo recordings

  • "Still Life, Q" (1969, Sveriges Radio)
  • The Electric Harpsichord (2010, Die Schachtel)
  • Live at Krems (2018, Important)
  • Selected Early Keyboard Works (2018, Blank Forms)
  • Unbegrenzt (2020, Blank Forms)

The Deontic Miracle

  • Central Palace Music from 100 Model Subjects For Hegikan Roku (2016, Important)
  • Selections from 100 Models of Hegikan Roku (2019, Blank Forms)

Chora(s)san Time-Court Mirage

  • Live at the Grimm Museum, Volume One (2012, Important)
  • Live at Issue Project Room (2016, Important)

Born of Six

  • Svapiti (2013, Important)

Work with Henry Flynt

  • You Are My Everlovin / Celestial Power (1986, Hundertmark) – tambura
  • Dharma Warriors (2008, Locust) – Henry Flynt / C.C. Hennix
  • C Tune (2002, Locust) – tambura
  • Purified by the Fire (2005, Locust) – tambura
  • Glissando No. 1 (2011) – piano
References
  1. ^ "Goethe Talks: Catherine Christer Hennix and Henry Flynt", Issue Project Room, 2013
  2. ^ a b c Hennix, Catherine Christer (2019). Poësy Matters and Other Matters. Blank Forms Editions. p. Introduction by Lawrence Kumpf.
  3. ^ a b c Boon, Marcus. "Shaking the Foundations," The Wire, October 2010
  4. ^ "Catherine Christer Hennix: Live at Issue Project Room" Archived 7 March 2018 at the Wayback Machine, Important Records, 2016
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