This is my interpretation of Catherine Christer Hennix's classic drone piece The Electric Harpsichord. Not a duplicate or recreation of the original, but an attempt to honor the essence of the piece as I understand it.

We don't have (to my knowledge) any score or written notes from Hennix herself, but we know from Henry Flynt that she used the North Indian Multani scale, tuned according to Alain Danielou's "Ragas of Northern Indian Music", and this is what I used here. (I refer to it as a scale and not as a raga because it is not used in a way that conforms with raga performance practice, although near the beginning you can hear the canonic ascending and descending forms of the raga.)

Hennix performed this piece on a retuned Yamaha electronic keyboard using the harpsichord setting, accompanied by sine wave generators. I am using two Meng Qi Wingie2 resonators (with custom firmware for the tuning), one for the bass and melodic figurations and one to resonate similarly to sympathetic strings. The little 7-note arpeggios/glissandi are implemented using MIDI, but it is all triggered by hand. This recording captures a single session, performed in real time. All of the sounds issue from the two WIngies, except for the underlying sine-wave drone, which is implemented in Csound.

A partial list of the other gear used includes Soma Labs Cosmos looper and Chase Bliss CXM 1978 reverb.

This track is also on Bandcamp: https://mysterybear.bandcamp.com/track/homage-to-hennix-the-electric-harpsichord-reinterpreted

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Homage to Catherine Christer Hennix - The Electric Harpsichord (Redux)

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