Sarah Davachi
at the National Music Centre
A Concert film Co-presentation with the National Music Centre, for the Canadian New Music Network Conference FORUM 2021.
A Three-Part virtual stream that will be available on November 2, 2021 on NMC Amplify, Youtube, Vimeo, and Facebook.
In 2021, Canadian electroacoustic composer and musician Sarah Davachi spent a week as the National Music Centre’s Stingray Classical Artist in Residence, experimenting with a vast collection of musical instruments. Featured in this performance are the Gerrit C. Klop chamber organ, EML ElectroComp 101 synthesizer, Hammond B3 electric organ + Leslie 122 speaker, and the rare and beautiful Hammond Novachord.
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Sarah Davachi's work illuminates the delicate psychoacoustics of intimate aural spaces, utilizing extended durations and simple harmonic structures that emphasize subtle variations in overtone complexity, temperament and intonation, and natural resonances. The instrumentation she employs is varied, including electric organ, pipe and reed organ, tape-replay samplers, voice, analog synthesizers, piano, and both modern and early strings, brass, and woodwinds. Similarly informed by minimalist and long-form tenets, baroque leanings toward slow-moving chordal suspension, and experimental production practices of the recording studio environment, in her sound is manifest an intimate and patient experience that lessens perceptions and apprehensions of the familiar and the distant.
