Sarah Davachipresents her new album, The Head as Formd in the Criers Choir. The compositions on this album, written between 2022 and 2024, form a conceptual suite and an observance of the mental dances that we construct to understand acts of passage; the ways that we commune and memorialise and carry symbols back into the world beyond representation. To this end, The Head as Formd in the Criers Choir engages two references to the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus: Rilkes Sonnets to Orpheus, a collection of poems from 1922, and Monteverdis lOrfeo, an early baroque opera from 1607.

The Head as Formd in the Criers Choir follows on from the last two albums, which were attempts to begin bridging the gap between the fixed electroacoustic pieces that emerge in Davachis home studio and her slow-paced, somewhat open-form chamber writing, in which ea