Catherine Christer Hennix

Catherine Christer Hennix (also known as C.C. Hennix; 25 January 1948 – 19 November 2023) was a Swedish musician, poet, philosopher, mathematician and visual artist. As a musician, she worked with figures such as Pandit Pran Nath, La Monte Young, and Henry Flynt. Several of her archival recordings have been released in the 21st century, most prominently The Electric Harpsichord. Hennix was affiliated with MIT's AI Lab in the late 1970s and was later employed as research professor of mathematics at SUNY New Paltz; she also worked with mathematician Alexander Esenin-Volpin.

Biography Catherine Christer Hennix was born on January 25, 1948, in Stockholm, Sweden. She grew up in a musical environment; her mother, Margit Sundin-Hennix, was a jazz composer who frequently invited well-known American jazz musicians such as Idrees Sulieman and Eric Dolphy around the house, and she saw John Coltrane and others perform. Hennix took up drums at the age of 5 and performed with her brother. Later, Hennix studied with Stockhausen and was among the pioneers in Sweden experimenting with main-frame computer generated composite sound wave forms in the late 1960s.

In 1968, she connected with Fluxus artists Dick Higgins and Allison Knowles in New York, and began collaborative relationships with figures such as La Monte Young and Henry Flynt. She pursued studies with raga master Pandit Pran Nath They co-authored a paper which earned her the Centenary Prize Fellow Award from the Clay Mathematics Institute in 2000. In 1976, Hennix curated Brouwer's Lattice,10-day festival featuring minimalist compositions, at Moderna Museet in Stockholm. In the 1990s, she relocated to Amsterdam to study psychoanalysis with students of Jacques Lacan. She moved to Istanbul in 2019, in part to hear the regular call to prayer.