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Two leading voices of the contemporary minimal/experimental scene, together for the first time in Greece and in a unique European double bill at Gazarte, October 7.
Sarah Davachi
Canadian composer and performer Sarah Davachi works between acoustic and electronic instruments, as well as between melody and structured noise. An organist and Hammond B3 player, her music draws on minimalist principles, early music, and experimental practices. Over the past decade she has built an impressive discography and has presented her work internationally in iconic venues such as Barbican Centre (London, UK), The Museum of Modern Art (New York, USA), The Getty Museum and The Academy Museum (Los Angeles, USA), Honen-in Temple (Kyoto, JP), Open Frame (Sydney, AU), Église Saint-Eustache (Paris, FR), and Rockefeller Memorial Chapel (Chicago, USA) among many others.
She has composed and presented works for ensembles including the London Contemporary Orchestra, Harmonic Space Orchestra, Ghost Ensemble, Chamber Choir Ireland, The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Radio France, and the Canadian International Organ Competition.
In 2020, she founded Late Music, a partner label of Warp Records. For over a decade, she also worked at the National Music Centre in Canada, responsible for the development of content for its collection of acoustic and electronic keyboard instruments. She holds a PhD in musicology from UCLA, with a dissertation on timbre, phenomenology, and critical organology, and is currently based in Los Angeles.
In 2024, Davachi completed a residency at Cafe OTO, London, to wide acclaim, presenting her record The Head As Form’d In The Crier’s Choir, an exploration of psychoacoustic minimalism.
Kara-Lis Coverdale
Canadian artist Kara-Lis Coverdale moves fluidly between acoustic and electronic sound, creating works that transcend genre. Her practice reflects a deep understanding of borderless electronic music, rooted in the interconnected paths of musical systems and languages.
This year, with her record From Where You Came, she was hailed by The Guardian as “one of the most exciting composers in North America,” while FADER described her as “a singular navigator of digital frontiers, with an emotional sensitivity we are not yet fully able to comprehend.”
Her brand new album A Series of Actions in a Sphere of Forever (Smalltown Supersound, Sept 12) is a collection of nine solo piano works that explore resistance, resonance, and space with spectral sensitivity, pieces she describes as “nocturnal, written in deep winter reflection, representing a period of refuge from maximal sound.”
Coverdale has performed across Europe, North America, Asia, and Australia, both as a headliner and opening act for artists such as Big Thief and Caribou. She has taken part in the Promises Ensemble with Floating Points, Shabaka Hutchings, and Kieran Hebden, and has collaborated with artists including Actress, Bill Ham (The Grateful Dead), and reinterpreted works by Caterina Barbieri.
Her compositions extend beyond the concert stage into original scores for film, psychedelic therapy, and long-duration immersive works designed around the architectures of saunas. Her studio recordings are often restrained, architecturally precise explorations of microtonality with modal sensitivity, while her live performances are dynamic, unpredictable, and emotionally charged.
Her works have been presented at major venues such as Barbican, Théâtre du Châtelet, MAC Montreal, Filharmonia Krakowska, Teatro Circo, Kraftwerk, and Elbphilharmonie, confirming her place in the forefront of today’s minimal experimental scene.
Coverdale began piano studies at the Royal Conservatory of Music at the age of 5, as a somewhat atypical “child prodigy,” and by 13 was already working as an organist and music director in various churches across Canada.
Bethnal Greener
Bethnal Greener is the musical project of Kostis Kilymis, a sound artist and producer with a background in noise and electroacoustic music. Using stripped-down electronics, voice, and bass, his music unfolds as elliptical narratives between atmospheric soundscapes and song. His new record Pedio will be released on October 3. For this performance, he prepares a new set featuring Sofia Zafeiriou on violin.
Kilymis has appeared at venues such as Café OTO (London), Q-O2 (Brussels), Onassis Stegi (Athens) and festivals including Audiograft (Oxford), Dotolympic (Seoul), and Inmute (Athens). His music has been released on labels such as Entr’acte, Coherent States, ORILA, Rekem Records, and Hideous Replica.
Sofia Zafeiriou is a musician and sound artist based in Athens. Her research focuses on transcending non-Western rhythms and modes through electronics, stochastic methods, noise, improvisation, and acoustic instruments. She is active in the Khora Social Center and is a member of the Intercultural Orchestra of the Greek National Opera.
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📍 Gazarte, Athens
🗓 October 7, 2025
