NYX: electronic drone choir: Women Make Music
NYX will release a new collaborative track & open-source remixes
NYX is a collaborative drone choir, re-embodying live electronics and extended vocal techniques. With visceral arrangements and original compositions by choir leader Sian O’Gorman, NYX looks to reshape the role of the traditional female choir, testing the limits of organic and synthetic modulation to explore the entire spectrum of collective female voice as an instrument.
NYX is a self-managed collective and independent record label, debuting in 2018 with a 4-part deep listening concert series of experimental collaborations with female UK composers Hatis Noit, Gazelle Twin, Iona Fortune and Alicia Jane Turner. NYX has quickly established itself as a popular music-led interdisciplinary experience: performing a sonic immersion with Sigur Rós at BST in Hyde Park, developing a sonic installation / live performance for London Design Festival and providing a live score at QEII Design Award for London Fashion Week.
NYX’s approach to post-digital performance and composition is influenced by Meredith Monk’s extended vocal technique, Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares’ charged harmonics, the electronic and acoustic body manipulations of Holly Herndon and the viscerality of Sunn 0)))’s ecstatic noise experiences. Alongside performances, the collective continues to research health and social benefits of sonic immersion in relation to ethnomusicology, sound therapy, collaboration, feminism and new digital technologies.
Following a live performance at Queen Elizabeth Hall in November 2019 described by The Times as a “a spellbinding, timeless piece of avant-garde performance art, part catharsis and part exorcism”, NYX and Gazelle Twin released their first collaborative album, Deep England, in March 2021.