This new piece was developed during their inclusion in the multi-artform initiative and residency as part of the Southbank Centre Studio programme in 2023, enabling creative development, and cross-art-form collaboration. The emotive performance on the 25th February will cross through the collective human voice and electronics, coursing through otherworldly chorus, ambient dreamscapes, drone and folk song. Costume designer Tom Scutt(Cabaret, Christine and the Queens, The Pet Shop Boys) and NYX’s somatic movement director Imogen Knight(Chernobyl, The Power, Dope Girls) help bring the show to life. As part of the second billing of the night, Roger Eno will perform music from his latest album, the skies, they shift like chords.

‍NYX will also host a series of workshops at Southbank Centre titled Tones, Bones and Drones on 28 Mar, 25 Apr & 23 May.

Collaborative drone choir, collective and independent record label, NYX embodies live electronics with extended vocal techniques, expanding upon the idea of the collective choral voice as an instrument. Choir leader Sian O’Gorman’s visceral arrangements and original compositions take a post-digital approach to vocal instrumentation testing the limits of organic and synthetic voice modulation, amplified by technology and innovation partners Ableton, D&B Audio and Monom Sound and exploring psychoacoustic compositional structures alongside sound therapy provider, Wavepaths. NYX take influence from Pauline Oliveros’ Deep Listening process, Meredith Monk’s extended vocal technique, and the innovation of Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares, Holly Herndon, and Sunn 0))). ‍

NYX have created and performed at EARTH, Rewire Festival, London Design Festival, London Fashion Week, the Pompidou Centre, Barbican, and more. With collaboration at the heart of their process, NYX has worked with musicians such as Gazelle Twin for their Deep England album which garnered praise from The Guardian to The Arts Desk. As well as Isobel Waller-Bridge, WaqWaq Kingdom, Laura Misch, Hatis Noit, and LCY and visual artists such as Tom Scutt, Dan Tobin Smith, Rosie Hastings and Hannah Quinlan, Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, Imogen Knight, Chloe Lamford, and Jonathan Barnbrook. NYX recently worked as music collaborators on the recent Blizzard game, Diablo IV, performing the soundtrack, and improvising the featured soundscapes. The choir performed Isobel Waller-Bridge’s score for The House of Bernada Alba at the National Theatre in November 2023, and recorded the score for the EMERGENCE installation with This Is Loop for River of Light in Liverpool and Leeds Night Light. NYX regularly run workshops across the UK to support female, trans and non-binary artists, as well as participants of trauma therapy programmes and social prescribing services, including opportunities to explore vocal embodiment and train in music production in partnership with Ableton. They work to make choral music and singing accessible to those who do not read music by using aural and visual scores. Recent workshop partners include ICA, V&A Museum, National Theatre Studio, Supersonic Festival and Body & Soul Charity.

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