Artist: NO HAY BANDA
Song: Three Unisons for Four Voices [excerpt] [composer: Sarah Davachi]
Recorded at The Music Gallery, June 5, 2025.
NO HAY BANDA - Three Unisons for Four Voices [excerpt]
On a day with a smoke cloud settling over the city, menacing campfire smell in the air, the Music Gallery closed out their season with a couple groups bringing some amorphous and wafting sonic plumes. This Montréal chamber ensemble brought along Sarah Davachi's "canon of variable durations", presenting a constrained set of relatively simple material, stretched out and shared between shifting subsets of the larger group (violin and cello for strings, bass clarinet and trombone for winds, percussion and a rare ondes martenot sighting), slowly accreting into a fairly monumental swell. The piece's most daring formal element was then to climb back down from the peak with as much patience as it deployed in the buildup — elegant if slightly anticlimactic, but at its best this was an exercise in durational listening where the audience could really settle into and zone out.
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