Bard College Electronic Music Presents: Christian Hirsche

Christian Hirsche is a legendary figure in electronic music who has quietly produced a unique and vast body of work since his beginnings with the absurdist cutups of H.N.A.S. in the mid-1980s. Since then has been active as a solo artist and in many groups including Mirror (with Andrew Chalk), Mimir (with Jim O’Rourke), and In Camera (with Timo van Liujk) and he has also collaborated with Current 93, Nurse With Wound, Organum, Jim O’Rourke, Merzbow, Charlemagne Palestine, William Basinski, and many others. Often described as “film for the ear,” Heemann’s solo compositions combine field recordings, acoustic instruments, and electronics crafted into audio narratives. Since 1994 he has run the label Streamline Records.


Sarah Hennies & Tristan Kasten-Krause perform compositions and improvisations for double bass and percussion that deal in large-scale forms and durations, microtonal beating tones, psychoacoustic phenomena, and an array of bells, gongs, and other percussion instruments. Sarah Hennies is a composer and percussionist based in the Hudson Valley and Kasten-Krause is a composer and bassist in New York City. Their first LP “The Quiet Sun” was released in April 2025 by Dinzu Artefacts and for the past three years the duo has been working together on a large-scale three-hour work electroacoustic work to be premiered at EMPAC in Troy, NY in late 2026.


Matt Krefting is a writer and musician living in Easthampton, MA. He formed the Son of Earth trio with Aaron Rosenblum and John Shaw in 2000, played in the short-lived but much-loved slop-glam group The Believers, released a CD of rock covers on Ecstatic Peace!, plays in Idea Fire Company, and has been making solo tape music since he was 17. His High Hopes LP on Open Mouth Records was described as "profoundly affecting" by Volcanic Tongue, "new classic music" by Vital Weekly, and "a spectacular achievement" by Swill Radio. His writing has been published by Glass Eye Books and Kendra Steiner Editions, as well as in The Wire.

8PM
$20 OR $10 with Bard ID