made a cheeky little website for my duo with @successfulartist.bsky.social - we have much activity afoot not yet reflected on this page! www.sarah-hennies.com/shtkk

my partner just revealed to me that today she got that U2 album off her iphone because she "finally got fed up" with skipping those songs on shuffle play and I'm rapt with wonder at someone being like "god dammit" every few minutes every time they listened to music for 12 years.

upgrading my home recording situation. might fuck around and make a solo album this summer.

Hey, I started a site/newsletter to continue the work of my recently-cancelled column. I features a monthly (free) rundown of good experimental releases, plus a bonus (paid-sub) post on a single release from the month. Check out goodexperimentalmusic.com and thanks to everyone who encouraged this!

50 cents at the Champaign IL goodwill in 1998 remains the greatest record find of my life and second place is not even close

in the mail today is the finished score and parts for "The Grain House" for Cabrillo Festival in Santa Cruz and in the inbox of @successfulartist.bsky.social will be the finished new Hennies/Kasten-Krause album "Prisoner's Cinema" coming out later this year.

oh nice! there are instrument and score images here: www.anniedodson.com/corn-alone/ I think my favorite are the ones that look like a row of chimes tied to the end of a fishing pole..

my brilliant former student Annie Dodson has a new album out made entirely with corn and instruments made from corn. sawyerspaces.bandcamp.com/album/corn-a...

bummed for a minute cause it's frog season and I was gonna share a link to @sarahhennies.bsky.social's Standing Water, and forgot that the label called it quits and the BC link isn't sharable anymor.. BUT WAIT! What's this? Everyone's favorite new co-op to the rescue! www.subvert.fm/sarah-hennie...

it's worth remembering the mid-late 90s movement of "rock" music that was so noisy and chaotic that it was barely even music. some of the most unhinged shit ever made, deeply important to my upbringing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2fY...

earlier my therapist told me, "I am SO sorry the world keeps shitting on trans girls" and that's exactly the kind of advise and reassurance I'm paying for.

If you're in NYC in August always go to the Timespans Festival. This year music by Haas, Rihm, Pamela Z, @sarahhennies.bsky.social, and great ensembles. timespans.org/program/

INA-grm tonight at 6:00, also with music by Brunhild Ferrari, Leo Dupleix, and Michaela Turcerova

Xenakis was having so much fun in the 90s. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HonX...

Acousmonium! Pretty cool! Heard some music tonight, we play tomorrow. Am I an ~electroacoustic~ composer now?

Been working nonstop at the GRM here the last 2.5 days. Getting a little creative!

Attn: @drewdaniel.bsky.social

@subvert.fm went public today, almost all of my music is there including a lot of stuff that hasn’t been available for a long time www.subvert.fm/sarah-hennies

I’m somewhat of an annoying purist when it comes to food but I must say, the sushi burrito is a glorious creation.

I am very please to say that after many months I'm finally finished with my first ever piece for full orchestra; "The Grain House" premieres August 1st at the Cabrillo Festival in Santa Cruz. I never ever thought I would get to do this and I'm very proud of the piece and grateful for the opportunity

disc 3 of the well tuned piano really cooks

One of my favorite things that I've ever recorded: David First with a studio full of radios, accompanied by Tristan Kasten-Krause, Erin Rogers, @sarahhennies.bsky.social, and Jessica Pavone. davidfirst.bandcamp.com/album/trust-...

Seam's "The Problem With Me" has been delivering as the #1 sad times album since my first girlfriend broke up with me in 1994 and that's a quality experience over time you don't often get.

Surprise! New David First *triple* CD of the Dave's Waves House Band: David First, Tristan Kasten-Krause, Jessica Pavone, & Erin Rogers. Guest spot on vibraphone and gongs on a few tracks by yours truly and recorded by @mattsargent.bsky.social. GOOD shit. davidfirst.bandcamp.com/album/trust-...

Not to brag but I got to hear a cut of this today and it rips so fucking hard

lots of older music not available anywhere else anymore!

me and @successfulartist.bsky.social have made a very nice record

we lost someone very special at Bard yesterday, a lovely kind person and brilliant artist named Hazel that the world never got a chance to know. loved unlistenable noisy techno, lamonte young, & gamelan. she left some things behind for us and I'm positive that there is more. hazelwood1.bandcamp.com

Kyoto 1970 by Wired [Michael Ranta & Karl-Heinz Böttner] (Metaphon 2026) metaphon2.bandcamp.com/album/kyoto-...

It has been brought to my attention that someone uploaded the full recording of Jean-Claude Eloy's masterpiece "A l'approche du feu meditant" to youtube 3 months ago. Have a wonderful 2 and a half hours today: www.youtube.com/watch?v=18Tt...

just get yourself a string quartet and helicopters for each of them

on the air tonight 9-11pm EST playing Crispin Glover, goat (JP), Liliane Donskoy, l'ocelle mare, Alvarius B, and more! www.wrfi.org

apropos of absolutely nothing at all that's happened today, here is a conversation I had with one of my best friends 3 years ago about Leno, Conan O'Brien, and boomers ruining the world by refusing to leave. www.thefoamweremovedfromtheoffice.com/2023/09/05/e...

Leon Botstein finally leaving Bard College as of June 30th. (Got sent a text with the message sent to the Bard Community)

also possibly swinging rubber chickens

Happy May Day to the Doozers

this actually worked. no bad ideas, people.

done.

hey when someone says some idiotic objectively ridiculous thing like "let's bring back smoking indoors" we don't need to talk about it for even one second.

Hennies/Kasten-Krause brings the heat to Bang on a Can's Long Play festival this Saturday at 7:30pm at the Brooklyn Music School. bangonacan.org/long-play-20...

significant percentage of composing music is accepting is that your clever ideas are stupid and you should get rid of them

I've watched a lot of Iron Chef and I don't recall ever seeing this image.

this new Blod album is the most dang pleasant thing I've heard in a long while. it's like a collection of closing credit music for all your favorite web series tv shows. discreetmusicgbg.bandcamp.com/album/f-rlor...

saw a guy at the glass museum yesterday in an Avail hoodie. I thought they'd gone extinct!

write music that if someone else showed it to you, you'd urinate right there on the spot.

new duo album comin' up later this year

stonecutters vibes over at subvert.fm

This new Alvarius B album is really quite something.

so desperate to understand the piece I’m writing (and for a title) that I somehow found myself at the wiki for the doozers from fraggle rock for inspiration