WNS and Eternal Now present:
Sarah Davachi at First Presbyterian Church of Oakland
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On the evening of Friday, November 13th, Working Name Studios and Eternal Now are proud to present Sarah Davachi at First Presbyterian Church of Oakland. First Presbyterian is home to a beautiful Rosales Opus 16 pipe organ, on which we're blessed to have Sarah present her new work. Sarah is on tour in support of her new 3LP The Will of Tongues. Togetherness Ensemble will be opening the evening with site specific acoustic composition for the sanctuary.
SARAH DAVACHI
As a composer and performer of both acoustic and electronic music, Sarah Davachi's (b. 1987, Canada) work is concerned with the close intricacies of intimate aural space, utilizing extended durations and simple harmonic structures that emphasize subtle variations in texture, overtone complexity, psychoacoustic phenomena, and temperament and intonation. Similarly informed by minimalist tenets of the 1960s and 1970s, baroque leanings toward slow-moving chordal suspensions, and experimental production practices of the recording studio environment, in her sound is manifest an experience that lessens apprehension of consonance and dissonance in likeness of the familiar and the distant. Davachi has toured extensively across the globe and has shared the stage and collaborated with artists such as Grouper, William Basinski, Ariel Kalma, the Bozzini Quartet, the London Contemporary Orchestra, Oren Ambarchi, Donald Buchla, Suzanne Ciani, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Jessica Moss, Áine O'Dwyer, Alessandro Cortini, James McVinnie, Ian William Craig, Kara-lis Coverdale, Aaron Dilloway, Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, Ellen Arkbro, Loren Connors, and filmmaker Paul Clipson. Between 2007 and 2017, she had the unique opportunity to work for the National Music Centre in Canada as an interpreter and content developer of their collection of acoustic and electronic keyboard instruments. She has held artist residencies at The Banff Centre for the Arts (Banff, CA), STEIM (Amsterdam, NL), WORM (Rotterdam, NL), EMS (Stockholm, SE), OBORO (Montréal, CA), MESS (Melbourne, AU), the National Music Centre (Calgary, CA), and with the Bozzini Quartet (Montréal, CA).
In 2020, Davachi established her own label, Late Music, for the release of Cantus, Descant, an 80-minute, 17-track double album meditation on impermanence and endings, framed by minimalistic organ études and careful harmonic layering. On two of the album's tracks, her own vocals are also heard for the first time. The album was very well received, appearing in album-of-the-year lists in Pitchfork, Uncut, The Wire, The Quietus and more.
Davachi is currently a doctoral candidate in musicology at UCLA where she works on critical organology and timbre in popular, experimental, and early music, and is based in Los Angeles, California.
TOGETHERNESS ENSEMBLE
Togetherness is a transdisciplinary artistic project focused on sonic and visual performance centering the creative practices of racialized Black people with the aim of creating space for shared visioning of collective futures. The Togetherness Ensemble is convened on occasion by Zekarias Musele Thompson to hold space for communal resonance through collective improvisation. Prompted by the historical and contemporary creative sensibilities of African, and African diasporic peoples, and the possibilities of emergent composition as the scaffolding for recognizing ourselves as free.
Cost: $25.00