An evening of electroacoustic music featuring percussionist Sarah Hennies and double bassist Tristan Kasten-Krause, celebrating their album Prisoner's Cinema.
Sarah Hennies and Tristan Kasten-Krause play KMFA Classical 89.5 on Saturday, October 10, presented by COTFG. Hennies is a percussionist; Kasten-Krause plays double bass. The evening is built around their album Prisoner's Cinema.
They describe their work as large-scale pieces built on drones, psychoacoustic phenomena, and extended double bass techniques. On stage, Hennies plays gongs, bells, vibraphone, and other percussion, setting high-pitched tones against Kasten-Krause's deep bass resonances. It's a duo of extremes—the high and the low—working together rather than against each other.
This is their second full-length record. Their first, The Quiet Sun, came out in 2025 on Dinzu Artefacts. Prisoner's Cinema followed, commissioned in 2025 by the Wassaic Project with a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts; it's also the first release on Hennies' new label, Best Hill. Since then, they've continued to expand: in 2026 they premiered Saccades, a multi-channel electroacoustic piece, at the Groupe de Recherches Musicales in Paris, and they're currently working on a three-hour commission for the 2027 TOPOS Festival at EMPAC in Troy, New York.
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They've played at ISSUE Project Room, Bang on a Can's Long Play Festival, the Aldrich Museum, the Black Mountain College Museum, the Music Gallery in Toronto, Suoni per il Popolo in Montreal, and the Akousma Festival in Paris. The show runs from 6 PM to 9 PM at KMFA Classical 89.5, 3001 N Lamar Blvd, and tickets range from $16.30 to $31.60.
