Pale Bloom - Album

Sarah Davachi B. 1987 Calgary Canada Holds A Bachelor's Degree In Philosophy From The University Of Calgary And A Master's Degree In Electronic Music And Recording Media From Mills College In Oakland California Where She Studied With Maggi Payne James Fei And David Bernstein. As A Composer And Performer Of Electroacoustic Music Davachi's Projects Are Primarily Concerned With Disclosing The Delicate Psychoacoustics Of Intimate Aural Spaces Utilizing Extended Durations And Simple Harmonic Structures That Emphasize Subtle Variations In Overtone Complexity And Natural Resonances. The Instrumentation She Employs Is Varied Including Analog Synthesizers Piano Electric Organ Pipe And Reed Organ Voice Analog Samplers Orchestral Strings And Woodwinds With Mutual Idioms Often Layered In Textural And Timbral Counterpoint. Similarly Informed By Minimalist Tenets Of The 1960s And 1970s Baroque Leanings Toward Slow-Moving Chordal Suspensions And Experimental Production Practices Of The Studio Environment In Her Sound Is Manifest An Experience That Lessens Apprehension Of Consonance And Dissonance In Likeness Of The Familiar And The Distant. Her Work As A Researcher Considers Aspects Of Organology Archival Study Phenomenology And Hermeneutics And Has Been Published And Presented In North America And Europe. Since 2007 Davachi Has Also 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 Canada STEIM Amsterdam Netherlands WORM Rotterdam Netherlands EMS Stockholm Sweden OBORO Montréal Canada And MESS Melbourne Australia And Is The Recipient Of Grants From The Canada Council For The Arts The Alberta Foundation For The Arts And SOCAN. In Addition To Her Recorded Output Including 2017's All My Circles Run On Students Of Decay And 2016's Vergers On Important Records Davachi Has Toured Extensively Across The Globe And Has Shared The Stage With Artists Such As Donald Buchla Morton Subotnick Aki Onda Grouper Arnold Dreyblatt John Bender Alessandro Cortini Oren Ambarchi Aaron Dilloway Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe Loren Connors And Filmmaker Paul Clipson. She Is Currently A Doctoral Student In Musicology And Is Based In Los Angeles California. read less