Sarah Hennies
@sarahhennies.bsky.social
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Composer, Percussionist Assistant Professor of Music @ Bard College www.sarah-hennies.com
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perhaps the biggest news I will ever share in my humble little career, I am blown away and honored to be the composer in residence at this year’s Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival.
hcmf.co.uk/announcing-s...
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Announcing Sarah Hennies, Composer in Residence at hcmf// 2025 - Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
Announcing Sarah Hennies – hcmf// 2025 Composer in Residence. We’re honoured to welcome Sarah Hennies as our Composer in Residence for hcmf// 2025.
https://hcmf.co.uk/announcing-sarah-hennies-composer-in-residence-for-hcmf-2025/?fbclid=PAQ0xDSwKtDmxleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABp5nULDxP-V3faUZ9SdqSynyJyVvCHs3PxWgY2hMRJEfXea0F4IEtO7Krbk9C_aem_LS7vACL3l1yKok1z4N-EGw
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So glad to be back in Ithaca and our beloved garagery back in action. Aaron Russell performing now.
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The new surprise Pigeon Pit album is so lovely, like a more punk but country influenced best moments of the Mountain Goats before that was swallowed up into the music industry and stopped being something I recognized.
ernestjenning.limitedrun.com/products/870...
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Pigeon Pit - Leash Aggression
Pigeon Pit is the self described “maximalist journaling” songwriting project of Olympia, WA front-woman Lomes Oleander. With a scrapbook approach to storytelling, Oleander pieces together vignettes o...
https://ernestjenning.limitedrun.com/products/870490
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Not that I’m surprised, but these losers wouldn’t give $500k to our local bus system - which operates for free for Cornell students - to avoid service cuts.
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Guy with a sandwich: “Fuck you armed agent of the state.” Ivy League: “I will eat my poop and thank you for it because I’m scared of a Fox News personality cosplaying as a lawyer”
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every time a boomer retires an angel gets its wings
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I wrote an essay on
@defector.com
about my archival misadventures putting together the book that is Gendertrash From Hell. Many thanks to
@laurentheisen.bsky.social
it was really nice to *get* edited for once. Lauren u rule!
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Unearthing The Hidden History Of A Singular Trans Punk Zine | Defector
I wasn't ready for how much it loved trans people.
https://defector.com/unearthing-the-hidden-history-of-a-singular-trans-punk-zine
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Last night in NYC for the Performa Biennial I had the great pleasure of spending some more time with inti figgis-vizueta, Lulu West, and Andrew Yee following a screening of Contralto where we talked about the GLISS residency and other stuff.
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ez “dyke ghoulfriend”
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Zohran says you’re trans now
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As many have pointed out, Mamdani didn't stand apart from our trans brothers and sisters. He didn't play the "Gee, gosh, it sure is complicated," milquetoast moderate card. And he crushed. The way forward is together, not over the bodies of our own.
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gotta say it’s really wild to see that a candidate who wants to tax billionaires and not kill trans people could win
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Zohran at the rally for trans youth on february 8 ❣️ he was polling single digits.
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dismantle the boomerocracy
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here's a great review of our show in Donaueschingen by the legendary Paul Griffiths in which he says "i'm not staying up for this" and just watches some videos instead
disgwylfa.substack.com/p/on-missing...
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On missing a concert and finding the music
There might have been another post from Donaueschingen.
https://disgwylfa.substack.com/p/on-missing-a-concert-and-finding
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Tomorrow night as part of the 2025 Performa Biennial, a rare NYC screening of "Contralto" along with a panel discussion full of queens with me, inti figgis-vizueta, Andrew Yee, and Lulu West:
performa2025.org/hub/a-voice-...
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A Voice and Nothing More | Performa Biennial 2025
What does it mean to compose from within a voice that has been politicized, pathologized, and—more often than not—unheard? A Voice and Nothing More...
https://performa2025.org/hub/a-voice-and-nothing-more
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did you know I recorded a marimba solo? I worked really hard on it for like a year! it's almost 50 years old!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSxu...
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Michael Ranta — Mharuva [w/ score]
YouTube video by Score Follower
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSxuVS3Q-KU&t=1141s
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think I’m taking child to see Rubber O Cement tomorrow
17 days ago
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we recorded Rrose Sélavy today and it is so so good.
20 days ago
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If anyone with money wants to get in on the ground floor of a billion dollar industry, I’d like to introduce into Europe the queen size mattress
21 days ago
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The true source of the Danube River or a dirty birdbath? You decide.
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"The Blue Hour" for violin and piano premieres tonight in Donaueschingen by Duo Saviet/Houston - dress rehearsal today was stunning, really proud of this huge work.
www.swr.de/donauesching...
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Sarah Hennies: The Blue Hour | Werke des Jahres 2025
FĂĽr Violine und Klavier. UrauffĂĽhrung bei den Donaueschinger Musiktagen 2025.
https://www.swr.de/donaueschinger-musiktage/donaueschinger-musiktage-2025-sarah-hennies-the-blue-hour-102.html
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I have been stopping at this gas station in Stone Ridge NY for seven years and this weird gross little red plastic pot has not moved an inch in that entire time. I need to know what it is and why it’s here but I cannot ask.
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took a bus from Ithaca to see this tonight and boy am I excited
www.ifccenter.com/films/no-you...
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IFC Center - No! YOU’RE WRONG.
Crispin Hellion Glover’s new film No! YOU’RE WRONG. or: Spooky Action at a Distance.One-week only theatrical engagement Fri, Oct 10-Thu, Oct 16. Advance tickets now on sale for special screenings Fri-...
https://www.ifccenter.com/films/no-youre-wrong/
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"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"
about 1 month ago
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Duo with
@successfulartist.bsky.social
will perform December 6th at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Connecticut in conjunction with a new exhibit by visual artist Zak Prekop
thealdrich.org/events/perfo...
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Performance: Sarah Hennies and Tristan Kasten-Krause | The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
Experience Sarah Hennies & Tristan Kasten-Krause live at The Aldrich with Zak Prekop: Durations. Experimental music meets art in an intimate performance.
https://thealdrich.org/events/performance-sarah-hennies-and-tristan-kasten-krause
about 1 month ago
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true love
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dear internet new music hive mind, another student question: what are some good/interesting experimental bassoon pieces? I can only think of one by Nicolaus Huber.
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October 22nd in Berlin at KM28, Manufaktur fĂĽr Aktuelle Musik performs my arrangement of "Rrose Selavy" by Juan Hidalgo along with other work by me. I'll be there playing the bowed hacksaw blade on snare drum.
www.km28.de
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KM28 Karl-Marx-StraĂźe 28, Berlin
https://www.km28.de
about 1 month ago
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I wrote liner notes for this new album by David First that is a stone cold masterpiece
moderecords.bandcamp.com/album/revolu...
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Revolutions (Mode 350), by David First
5 track album
https://moderecords.bandcamp.com/album/revolutions-mode-350
about 1 month ago
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How is this not the top headline on every single news site?
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on the air now until 11pm
www.wrfi.org
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hcmf//
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Saviet/Houston Duo perform Sarah Hennies’ The Blue Hour (UK Premiere) at hcmf// 2025. 90 minutes of hypnotic repetition and fragile cycles. Violin and piano become a space to inhabit. 🗓️ 25 Nov, 12pm | 📍 St Paul's Hall 🎟️ £18 / £23.40 / £7 U30 Get your tickets now:
hcmf.co.uk/programme/sa...
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I never really listened to Fugazi’s “End Hits” because it came out at a time when I was totally checked out of rock music but I gotta tell ya, it’s really fuckin good!
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World premiere at Donaueschingen Musiktage in just a few weeks. Can't wait to be at both of these festivals!
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Crispin Glover and new Breen announcement in the same week? Have I died?
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about 2 months ago
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We have a winner.
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no one has ever made the headset mic look cool. it can’t be done.
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I had a trans surgery and I can confirm that it was radical.
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I'm inputting a piece into my notation software from paper score I wrote 25 years ago in grad school to arrange it into a new piece for andPlay and as you can see my work has changed a lot in a quarter century
about 2 months ago
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OMFG CRISPIN GLOVER FINISHED THE TRILOGY I THOUGHT THIS DAY WOULD NEVER COME
youtu.be/3grQdSO8jfA
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No! YOU'RE WRONG. or: Spooky Action at a Distance
YouTube video by Crispin Hellion Glover
https://youtu.be/3grQdSO8jfA
about 2 months ago
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I just spent ten minutes writing and not posting replies to Mariah Carey’s “my perfect 10” pitchfork post about how she should have been honest and said “Bird Seed by Whitehouse”
about 2 months ago
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full set of Maher Shalal Hash Baz from Cafe Oto last spring. Very very beautiful.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HAf...
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MAHER SHALAL HASH BAZ - Live at Cafe OTO (day two), 05/04/2025
YouTube video by roustghoti
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HAfnyieOkk
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class prep
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I’ve listened to this song about 40 times now and I’m convinced there’s something *really* funny about it that will one day reveal itself to me
youtu.be/HIrNvQq0lG4?...
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Coconut Tree
YouTube video by Little Wings - Topic
https://youtu.be/HIrNvQq0lG4?si=tx17fynlfGVw743R
about 2 months ago
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on the air in 30 minutes at
@wrficommunityradio.bsky.social
www.wrfi.org
about 2 months ago
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on the Marchetti-ish tip, we will be performing my arrangement of Juan Hidalgo's "Rrose Selavy" in Berlin next month at KM28 on October 22nd
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as far as obituaries go, you'd be hard pressed to do better than this.
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Doing an online workshop about rhythm for
@campfr.bsky.social
- see details at the link below!
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about 2 months ago
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Invited my dad to my show tomorrow and he said “let me know if you find the charger to my leaf blower.”
about 2 months ago
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It has been over a year and a pretty hard slog but today I am finished with "The Blue Hour" for violin and piano, composed for Sarah Saviet & Joe Houston which will get its premiere at Donaueschingen Musiktage on October 18th and a UK premiere
@hcmfuk.bsky.social
in November.
about 2 months ago
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cooked up something real nice for my show tomorrow night in Ithaca with Keur Neuringer/Luke Stewart, Kyle Kidd, and Flose.
about 2 months ago
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