As a composer and performer of both acoustic and electronic music, Sarah Davachi’s (b. 1987, Canada) work is concerned with the close intricacies of intimate aural space, utilizing extended durations and simple harmonic structures that emphasize subtle variations in texture, overtone complexity, psychoacoustic phenomena, and temperament and intonation. Similarly informed by minimalist tenets of the 1960s and 1970s, baroque leanings toward slow-moving chordal suspensions, and experimental production practices of the recording studio environment, in her sound is manifest an experience that lessens apprehension of consonance and dissonance in likeness of the familiar and the distant. Davachi has toured extensively across the globe and has shared the stage and collaborated with artists such as Grouper, William Basinski, Ariel Kalma, the Bozzini Quartet, the London Contemporary Orchestra, Oren Ambarchi, Donald Buchla, Suzanne Ciani, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Jessica Moss, Áine O’Dwyer, Alessandro Cortini, James McVinnie, Ian William Craig, Kara-lis Coverdale, Aaron Dilloway, Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, Ellen Arkbro, Loren Connors, and filmmaker Paul Clipson. Between 2007 and 2017, she 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, CA), STEIM (Amsterdam, NL), WORM (Rotterdam, NL), EMS (Stockholm, SE), OBORO (Montréal, CA), MESS (Melbourne, AU), the National Music Centre (Calgary, CA), and with the Bozzini Quartet (Montréal, CA).

In 2020, Davachi established her own label, Late Music, for the release of Cantus, Descant, an 80-minute, 17-track double album meditation on impermanence and endings, framed by minimalistic organ études and careful harmonic layering. On two of the album’s tracks, her own vocals are also heard for the first time. The album was very well received, appearing in album-of-the-year lists in Pitchfork, Uncut, The Wire, The Quietus and more.

Davachi is currently a doctoral candidate in musicology at UCLA where she works on critical organology and timbre in popular, experimental, and early music, and is based in Los Angeles, California.