NO HAY BANDA | HxH

A double-bill dedicated to the subtle frictions of layered, long-form music. Duo HxH brings their ambient-dub-cutup improvising practice to Toronto—while NO HAY BANDA performs a new work by Sarah Davachi that draws on the expansive nature of durational sound.

Our last show of the season is a night dedicated to the subtle frictions of layered, long-form music—featuring a double-bill of artists known for harnessing the expansive nature of detailed, durational sound.

Fresh off debut album STARK PHENOMENA, New York City-based duo HxH (Chris Ryan Williams and Lester St. Louis) bring their signature ambient-dub-cutup sound to Toronto, using gossamer layers of trumpet, cello, and grainy electronics to build what they call “an architecture of the expanse.”

In the second half, Montreal’s NO HAY BANDA performs Sarah Davachi’s work Three Unisons for Four Voices: a 70-minute sextet that plays with the lush, delicate textures of an ensemble playing in fragile unison with itself—and the acoustic spaces of ‘in-betweenness’ that slowly begin to emerge. 

Co-presented with Debaser and Suoni Per Il Popolo and curated by Sara Constant.

HxH:

Chris Ryan Williams - trumpet & electronics
Lester St. Louis - cello & electronics

NO HAY BANDA:

Adrianne Munden-Dixon - violin
Audréanne Filion - cello
Lori Freedman - bass clarinet
Kalun Leung - trombone
Daniel Áñez - ondes Martenot
Noam Bierstone - percussion

SARAH DAVACHI’S THREE UNISONS FOR FOUR VOICES:
“Three Unisons for Four Voices is a piece primarily about texture and incidental harmony. The four "voices" of the ensemble (strings, winds, percussion, electronics) proceed in a slow-moving monody that is made into a sort of variable canon by way of open and offset timings. As players gradually fall in and out of step with one another, the ear begins to focus on the acoustic spaces in between, bringing into question what it means for a sound to be felt as functioning in unison.”

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