Want to get up close and personal with Vancouver electronic musicians?

You can’t miss the event on May 28. Located at Venue at Pacific Spirit United Church (2195 W 45th Avenue) This is a special recital evening by three well-known musical artists Sarah Davachi, Stefan Maier and George Rahi at Vancouver’s largest pipe organ. From expansive drone landscapes to novel sounds coaxed through uniquely crafted digital enhancement techniques, all three artists have crafted this impressive instrument with their own voices.

Known for bending intricate textures and timbres to create mesmerizing sonic spaces. Sarah Davachi work focuses on the tight complexities of timbre and time and space, utilizing extended durations and simple harmonic structures, emphasizing subtle changes in texture, overtone complexity, psychoacoustic phenomena, and temperament and intonation. She will provide long-form performances for solo acoustic organ, including works from the albums Cantus, Descant (2020) and Antiphonals (2021), as well as some new composition.

Stefan Maier’s new work will use a large spatial speaker array combined with a pipe organ for the Pacific Spirit United Church. From the polychoral traditions of Venice, to the sacred spatiality implicit in Duffer’s work Nuper Rosarum Flores, he will explore the promise of multimodal spatial listening through an in-depth exploration of the history of spatial and architectural composition.

George Rashi is an interdisciplinary artist based in Vancouver who uses self-created and adapted instruments as a way to explore the intersection between acoustic and digital technologies, listening modes, and spatial and architectural thinking. He will presents Music for the Augmented Pipe Organ, a series of works that combine the vibrant acoustics of the pipe organ with electronic and post-digital music techniques. Through computer control of the pipes and registers of the organ, the timbre of the instrument is separated from its keyboard interface, resulting in the smallest and largest world of sound.