In 2018/19, with the generous support of Arts Council England, NYX produced 4 new collaborative choral works for audiences to experience at deep listening Sunday events across London.
Over the series, NYX invited each collaborator to perform in a deep listening space, replacing digital instruments and field recordings with collective modulated or organic voice, improvising new material, interacting with original NYX compositions and together, creating a euphoric collective experience for audiences.
The series drew to a close on 10 March 2019 with new collaborative compositions from NYX and composer, violinist and performance artist Alicia Jane Turner with Dead Light (Anna Rose Carter and Ed Hamilton). Alicia was a composition fellow at the Bang on a Can 2018 Summer Festival where their new classical works were premiered, and has toured internationally with their collaborative and solo theatre works and performance pieces, including Breathe (Everything Is Going To Be Okay), This Is How We Die and Kissing The Shotgun Goodnight with Christopher Brett Bailey. Exploring breath, the sonorities of the female voice and the relationship between the internal and external body, this visceral new work will challenge the sonic interconnections between classical instrumentation, voice and synthetic textures.
This very special performance was recorded by filmmaker and NYX collaborator, Vincent Moon (Petites Planètes, Blogotheque).
