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December 6, 2025 at 7:00 pm |
Public Programs
Performance: Sarah Hennies and Tristan Kasten-Krause
Saturday, December 6, 2025 | 7 pm
$10 Members and Students; $15 General Admission
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Join us for an intimate duo performance by composer and percussionist Sarah Hennies and bassist Tristan Kasten-Krause, presented in connection with Zak Prekop: Durations. Hennies and Kasten-Krause will present a 40-60 minute set of experimental music within the Museum’s galleries, offering a meditative, resonant experience that blurs the boundaries between sound, space, and visual art.
Sarah Hennies is known for her immersive and durational performances that explore psychoacoustic phenomena, queerness, and the act of listening. Her duo with Kasten-Krause combines sensitivity and restraint, crafting quiet, expansive works that unfold gradually over time.
This event is presented in conjunction with Zak Prekop: Durations (on view through January 11, 2026), an exhibition exploring visual rhythm, repetition, and the temporality of painting. It also marks the launch of Zak Prekop’s first museum publication. This fully illustrated, 32-page softcover catalogue features bold new abstract paintings by the artist, along with an interview between Prekop and curator Eduardo Andres Alfonso. The catalogue will be available for purchase at the event.
Bio
Sarah Hennies and Tristan Kasten-Krause work collaboratively to compose large-scale compositions employing drones, psychoacoustic phenomena, and extended techniques on double bass and an array of gongs, bells, vibraphone, and other percussion instruments. Their work includes delicate interplay of high-pitched tones, deep resonances from bass tones and gongs, and patient, slowly unfolding extended durations that evoke a mysterious sonic landscape. Outside of their collaboration, Hennies is an internationally acclaimed composer who was awarded a 2024 United States Artist Fellowship, a 2019 Grants to Artists award from Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and was a participant in the 2024 Whitney Biennial and is also a professor of music at Bard College. Kasten-Krause is one of the most in-demand composer-performers in New York City, performing with Talea Ensemble, Contemporaneous, Bang on a Can, Jessica Pavone, and many others. The duo performs frequently with appearances at JACK (NYC), Suoni Per Il Popolo (Montreal), Re:Sound (Cleveland), and the 24-hour drone at Basilica Hudson (Hudson, NY) among others. In late 2025 they will premiere a new work at the Wassaic Project supported by the New York State Council on the Arts and in 2026 will premiere a new electroacoustic piece at the Groupe de Reserche Musicale (GRM) in Paris.
Top image: Photo courtesy of ISSUE Project Room (Brooklyn)