Sarah Davachi
Music Style
ambientelectronicminimalismdrone ambientdark ambient
About Sarah Davachi
Sarah Davachi (born 1987 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada) is a Canadian composer and musician based in Los Angeles. Her work encompasses electronic and electroacoustic music, drone, minimalism and chamber composition, with particular attention to tuning, resonance and the changing relationships between sustained tones.
Davachi works with acoustic and electronic instruments, including pipe and electric organs, synthesizers, piano, strings, woodwinds and voice. Her compositions often unfold over extended durations, allowing small changes in harmony, texture and overtones to become audible. Her approach draws on early music, experimental recording techniques and minimalist composition, and includes solo performances, ensemble works and studio recordings.
She holds a bachelor's degree in philosophy from the University of Calgary and a master's degree in electronic music and recording media from Mills College in Oakland, California. In 2025, she completed a doctorate in musicology at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research addresses timbre, musical instruments and the perception of sound. From 2007 to 2017, she worked with the collection of acoustic and electronic keyboard instruments at Calgary's National Music Centre.
Her debut full-length album, Barons Court (2015), combined analogue synthesizers with acoustic instruments. Subsequent recordings included All My Circles Run (2017), Gave in Rest (2018) and Pale Bloom (2019).
In 2020, Davachi established Late Music, an imprint within Warp Records' partner-label division. Releases on the label include Cantus, Descant (2020), built around recordings of pipe, reed and electric organs, Antiphonals (2021) and Two Sisters (2022).
Long Gradus (2023) presented a long-form composition developed with the string quartet Quatuor Bozzini. The Head As Form’d In The Crier’s Choir (2024) brought together solo and chamber works. The Will of Tongues, released in August 2026, includes historical pipe organs, choral compositions and microtonal instrumental ensembles, with contributions from performers including Lucy Railton, Phaedrus and Chamber Choir Ireland.
Davachi has also collaborated with Ariel Kalma, Sean McCann and Biliana Voutchkova, and composed music for films including Topology of Sirens and Terra Femme.
Two Sisters won Self-Released Record of the Year at the 2023 Libera Awards. In July 2026, Davachi was named the recipient of the Silver Lion for Biennale Musica. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
Davachi works with acoustic and electronic instruments, including pipe and electric organs, synthesizers, piano, strings, woodwinds and voice. Her compositions often unfold over extended durations, allowing small changes in harmony, texture and overtones to become audible. Her approach draws on early music, experimental recording techniques and minimalist composition, and includes solo performances, ensemble works and studio recordings.
She holds a bachelor's degree in philosophy from the University of Calgary and a master's degree in electronic music and recording media from Mills College in Oakland, California. In 2025, she completed a doctorate in musicology at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research addresses timbre, musical instruments and the perception of sound. From 2007 to 2017, she worked with the collection of acoustic and electronic keyboard instruments at Calgary's National Music Centre.
Her debut full-length album, Barons Court (2015), combined analogue synthesizers with acoustic instruments. Subsequent recordings included All My Circles Run (2017), Gave in Rest (2018) and Pale Bloom (2019).
In 2020, Davachi established Late Music, an imprint within Warp Records' partner-label division. Releases on the label include Cantus, Descant (2020), built around recordings of pipe, reed and electric organs, Antiphonals (2021) and Two Sisters (2022).
Long Gradus (2023) presented a long-form composition developed with the string quartet Quatuor Bozzini. The Head As Form’d In The Crier’s Choir (2024) brought together solo and chamber works. The Will of Tongues, released in August 2026, includes historical pipe organs, choral compositions and microtonal instrumental ensembles, with contributions from performers including Lucy Railton, Phaedrus and Chamber Choir Ireland.
Davachi has also collaborated with Ariel Kalma, Sean McCann and Biliana Voutchkova, and composed music for films including Topology of Sirens and Terra Femme.
Two Sisters won Self-Released Record of the Year at the 2023 Libera Awards. In July 2026, Davachi was named the recipient of the Silver Lion for Biennale Musica. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.