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New music fest transitions to ex-punk composer

New music fest transitions to ex-punk composer

The Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival has named ‘trans, queer’ Sarah Hennies as this year’s composer in residence, affirming its hard-won fringe status.

From a recent profile:

Sarah Hennies is a minimalist composer who focuses on transforming simple instruments into ambiguous composing tools when they interact with a physical space. The New York–based, trans female and queer composer and percussionist has been playing music for as long as she can remember. She grew up in the indie-punk scene in Louisville, Kentucky, and started gravitating toward weird music at age 15. She is also classically trained, having attended a performing arts high school, and she eventually got her master’s from University of California, San Diego.

Hennies has her own label, Weighter Recordings, and is a member of improvisational group Meridian, and of the Queer Percussion Research Group.

 

 

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