Catherine Christer Hennix obituary | Classical music
It was the composer Henry Flynt who described the music of his friend Catherine Christer Hennix as “tuned texture rather than thematic articulation”. Hennix, who has died aged 75, was a Swedish musician whose work was profoundly informed by her background in mathematics, philosophy, linguistics and Sufism.Her music explored sound, light, drones, the pure intervals of “just intonation”, time and spirituality, inspired by her musical studies with La Monte Young, who introduced her to the work of the Indian singer and…