HENNIX, Catherine Christer.

£600 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

Mythos / Retreats. Rare preprint copy of this poetic composition. It does not appear in Poësy Matters and Other Matters (2019), the only comprehensive publication of Hennix's written work, and WorldCat locates no copies in institutions. Its fragmented style is similar to Flowers of the Black Chrysanthemum (1990), which was composed around the same time. Catherine Christer Hennix (1948-2023), widely known as Christer Hennix or C. C. Hennix, was a polymath composer whose artistic and philosophical output was rooted in her work as a professor of mathematics. A discipline of Hindustani raga master Pandit Pran Nath and collaborator with La Monte Young, Hennix rejected the equal tempered scale of Western music in favour of non-Western tuning systems. Her poetry and visual art were part of her attempt to access pure altered states of consciousness. Henry Flynt has remarked that "Hennix has an entire oeuvre that the world has never seen. She was trying to pull together logic, psychedelic drugs and the experience afforded by Indian music" (Dzwonkoski & Potter).

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