Henning Christiansen
Danish composer and Fluxus pioneer Henning Christiansen (1932-2008) revolutionized musical practice by dismantling hierarchies between composer, performer, and audience. His legendary collaboration with Joseph Beuys spanned decades, producing groundbreaking performances that merged sound, visual art, and political activism. Co-founder of the 44Møn artists' colony on the island of Møn, Christiansen created a space where art and daily life intersected. His conceptual works used everyday materials as musical notation, transforming fixed scores into fluid, participatory experiences.
Danish composer and Fluxus pioneer Henning Christiansen (1932-2008) revolutionized musical practice by dismantling hierarchies between composer, performer, and audience. His legendary collaboration with Joseph Beuys spanned decades, producing groundbreaking performances that merged sound, visual art, and political activism. Co-founder of the 44Møn artists' colony on the island of Møn, Christiansen created a space where art and daily life intersected. His conceptual works used everyday materials as musical notation, transforming fixed scores into fluid, participatory experiences.
The executioner
First in a series of two releases unveiling the previously unissued soundtracks made for the films of Ursula Reuter Christiansen by her partner and collaborator Henning Christiansen. The Executioner ("Skarpretteren") is Ursula's first film from 1971 and is now considered one of the most important works of early Danish feminist art. A highly praised recent show at the Statens Museum for Kunst in Copenhagen highlighted the pertinent themes and ongoing urgency which lies within this bold symbolic w…
Den Rode Skov
Second in a series of two previously unreleased soundtracks Henning Christiansen made for the films made by his partner and collaborator Ursula Reuter Christiansen. Den Røde Skov ("The Red Forest") was Ursula's second film made in 1986. In stark contrast to the exquisite romantic melancolia of their first collaboration, The Executioner (PP 034LP), Den Røde Skov resides as one of the wildest recordings in the entire Christiansen catalog. Aligned more with works like the legendary collaboration wi…
Satie i høj sø
The most enigmatic and rare of Danish artist and composer Henning Christiansen’s albums Satie i høj sø is now re-issued by Institute for Danish Sound Archeology and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Roskilde, Denmark. The album collects five central works from Christiansen’s neo-romantic period in the 1970s. This completely overlooked and virtually unheard period in Henning Christiansen’s oevre contains perhaps his most fascinating and beautiful works.For 10 years from 1969-79 Christiansen turne…
Rodhaette/Ruinmusik
Two previously unreleased works from the late Danish composer, musician, publisher, artist, and Fluxus actionist Henning Christiansen. "Rødhætte" (1985) is a rendition of Little Red Riding Hood featuring Ursula Reuter Christiansen as narrator. All the hallmarks of Henning's unique approach to music/sound appear as the tale goes deeper into the depths of animalistic frenzy. "Ruinmusic" (1984) inhabits the last breath off the piano housed within the former Marienborg Manor. Prior to the destru…
Op.192 Umwalzung
Op.192 Umwälzung - Fluxorum Organum 1990 Eurasienstab Ist Immernoch Angelpunkt is a previously unissued work by Henning Christiansen from 1990. Around the formation of the European Union, Henning approached his original Eurasienstab organ recordings from 1968 as a platform to remold a vast amount of audio he made over the subsequent years This special two-CD release comprises two different mixes of Umwälzung that were made for Werner Durand in 1990 to be used as backing tapes for a performanc…
Opus 67 Strategygetarts A Symphony, Hommage a Richard Demarco
This record is a lie and a failure - a triumph and truth. Such is the condition that Henning Christiansen build across his entire career. One the 20th Century’s most striking and visionary composers - perhaps the most notable of Fluxus’ Danish arm, Christiansen was a radical collectivist as much as an assertive individualist - contradictory and reactionary - possessed by a singular vision which drove him down uncharted paths. Christiansen’s life, with the sprawling body of work it left in its w…
Musik Hessayistik
Henning Christiansen (Copenhagen, 1932 – Isle of Møn, 2008) was a Danish composer and an active member of the Fluxus movement. He studied at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Copenhagen and at the more liberal Ex-School (Eks-Skolen) embracing soon its radical approach in study and creation of art and developing his own musical thinking. In 1962 he attended the George Maciunas’s International Festspiele Neuster Musik in Wiesbaden, where he probably experienced an epiphany that caused a si…
Requiem of Art fluxorum organum II Opus 50
**finally restocked, very last copies** Requiem of Art Fluxorum organum II Opus 50 was first issued in 1973 by Edition Schellmann alongside Schottische Symphonie with Joseph Beuys. This is the authoritative version of one of the greatest works by the late Henning Christiansen (1932-2008), Danish composer and Fluxus artist, presented with the full cooperation with the Henning Christiansen estate. 180-gram LP in spot-varnished sleeve with a four-page high-gloss booklet containing the complete s…
Symphony Natura
Reissue on black vinyl, strictly limited to 90 copies, hand numbered, contains the original cover from the first edition plus the score, also numbered. Limited quantities available! "Symphony Natura op.170" (1985) is a long collage of electronic drones and animal sounds, recorded at the Zoo in Rome in 1985. "First of all, I think of Bruckner's great symphonies modelled after nature, from the days of flourishing orchestral culture, great feelings and gazing into the soundscape. Which was always t…
Kreuzmusik Fluxid Behandlung op 189
Kye is proud to present in association with Penultimate Press the fully authorized reissue of Henning Christiansen's Kreuzmusik FLUXID BEHANDLUNG Op 189. Kreuzmusik FLUXID BEHANDLUNG Op 189 was commissioned by the Bonner Kunstverein Gallery, Kunstfond, Germany in August 1989, for inclusion in their Taking Fluxus Around for a Drive happening, (also featuring performances by Dieter Daniels, George Maciunas, Allan Kaprow, Al Hansen, Joe Jones and others) and originally issued on cassette in …
Schottische Symphonie / Requiem of Art
Joseph Beuys and Henning Christiansen – Schottische Symphonie (Requiem Of Art). A monumental collision of two visionary minds. Released in 1973 on Edition Schellmann, this rare document captures the legendary collaboration between artist-shaman Beuys and composer Christiansen. Schottische Symphonie (from "Celtic") was recorded live at Edinburgh College of Art on August 21, 1970—a mono recording that preserves the raw intensity of the performance. Requiem Of Art (from "Celtic") (Fluxorum Organum …
Fluxorum Organum
in 1967 henning christiansen proposed to joseph beuys that he composes a major work for organ titled "fluxorum organum" for beuys's planned aktion "eurasienstab". henning christiansen composed a piece with five movements. the organist franz meiswinkel played the composition on the organ in düsseldorf's liebfrauenkirche. the first "eurasienstab" aktion took place in 1967 in vienna at the galerie nächst st. stephan. in 1968 there was a repeat performance at the wide white space gallery in antwerp.…