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 kicked off on October 28th 2018 with a live collaboration with Erased Tapes Japanese vocal performer Hatis Noit. Hatis Noit’s accomplished range is astonishingly self-taught, inspired by everything she could find from Gagaku — Japanese classical music — and operatic styles, Bulgarian and Gregorian chanting, to avant-garde and pop vocalists. For Hatis Noit, music represents a netherworld with its ability to move and transport us to the other side; the past, a memory, our subconscious. For this event, NYX composed and improvised ambient sonic landscapes punctuated with acoustic glitching, polyphonic overtone and ambient textures in response to Hatis Noit’s music that at once deconstruct and recombine Western Classical, Japanese folk and nature’s own ambience.
The live recording has been featured on NTS Radio and BBC 6, with support of Mary Anne Hobbs and Erased Tapes.
