The Deontic Miracle: Selections from 100 Models of Hegikan Roku vinyl record

The Deontic Miracle: Selections from 100 Models of Hegikan Roku vinyl recordSelections from 100 Models of Hegikan Roku is the second in an ongoing series of archival records of the unheard music of Swedish composer, philosopher, poet, mathematician, and visual artist Catherine Christer Hennix, co released by Blank Forms Editions and Empty Editions. It follows last years Selected Early Keyboard Works and anticipates Blank Forms publication of Posy Matters and Other Matters, a two volume collection of Hennixs writing. Upon her

and Hennix herself

is not a song but a “flesh-and-blood human being

A vortex of wah-like microtonal rattling

art-damaged rock and pop music

while capturing radical artistic and political developments across Brooklyn and Lower Manhattan in the 1970s and ’80s

surreal pranks

excerpts of which are here selected and introduced by the composer and pianist Leo Svirsky

to French prog artists Besombes/Rizet and Philippe Grancher

Interviews by Alan Licht with Vito Acconci

Long relegated to the status of a mysterious footnote in Don’s sessionography

stewarded by Blank Forms and the Maryanne Amacher Foundation

and elsewhere