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"...Hennix has created a sound that reliably taps into our subconscious and frees us from linear time..." The Quietus

C.C. Hennix - renaissance oboe, custom sine wave generator
Peter Hennix - renaissance oboe
Hans Isgren - sheng

Recorded Spring 1976

Central Palace Music, performed by Catherine Christer Hennix's just-intonation ensemble The Deontic Miracle, is the first in a series of archival Hennix releases to be issued via IMPREC. This previously unheard piece was taken from an eight day festival organized in the Spring of 1976 at the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm.

From the artist: "For this work, called 'Scores for Tuesday evening for all male ensemble choir' I had a group of eight men who were concealed in a space next to the performance venue. Besides my voice, All the sounds that you are hearing while I’m on stage are being produced by eight men with eight microphones and objects that they have with them in the gallery annex. I’m using my passive wooden switchbox instruments to mix the microphone signals live while I’m on stage. The wooden switch box instruments were built by an artist named Brian Musselwhite from Portland, Maine."

Sound poem (1910) from the book The Three [TPOE], 1913, 1'12"

Voice – Galina Musijina-Nikiforova

Recording – Miguel Molina, Audio Laboratory of the UPV Opt. of Sculpture (Valencia, Spain)

Elena Guro, (b. St. Petersburg 1877 - d. Ousikirkko, Finland 1913), was a painter, writer and poet who took part in the first demonstrations by the Russian futurist movement. She was a pioneer in her approach to nature and the organic world. As Matyushin said, "she opposes organism to mechanism", attempting to recover the rhythm of nature. As she suggested: "Try to breathe the way the pines whisper in the distance, the way the wind passes disturbingly, the way the universe palpitates. Imitate the breathing of the earth and the phases of the clouds". This poem called Finland gets close to these ideas, including approaching, phonetically, the sound of conifer branches in Finland while recalling a person through those forest whispers.