Sarah Hennies & Tristan Kasten-Krause

Sarah Hennies (percussion) and Tristan Kasten-Krause (double bass) 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. Their first LP together The Quiet Sun was released in 2025 by Dinzu Artefacts and their 2nd LP “Prisoner’s Cinema” (forthcoming, Fall 2026) was commissioned in 2025 by the Wassaic Project and a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts. In 2026, the duo premiered “Saccades,” a multi-channel electroacoustic piece at the Groupe de Recherches Musicale (GRM) in Paris and are working on a major 3-hour commission for the 2027 TOPOS Festival at the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) in Troy, NY. The duo has also performed at ISSUE Project Room (NYC), Bang on a Can’s Long Play Festival (NYC), the Aldrich Museum (CT), the Black Mountain College Museum (NC), the Music Gallery (Toronto), Suoni per il Popolo (Montreal), the Akousma Festival (Paris), and others.