NYX: electronic drone choir

NYX embodies live electronics, drone and ecstatic choral sound, testing the limits of organic and synthetic modulation to explore the entire spectrum of collective voice as an instrument. 

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 voice as an instrument. 

NYX creates immersive performances that respond to architecture and nature, are amplified by spatial sound design with partners Ableton, D&B Audio and Monom Sound and explore psychoacoustic compositional structures alongside sound therapy provider, Wavepaths.

NYX are a self-managed collective and independent record label that have created and performed in popular music-led interdisciplinary experiences for reputable spaces such as Hyde Park, London Design Festival, London Fashion Week, Roundhouse, Pompidou Centre, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Kings Place, Barbican. 

NYX works to translate live connection and vocal embodiment in our recorded music, demonstrated in Deep England, their collaborative album with Gazelle Twin, recognised in the Guardian’s top ten contemporary albums for 2020,  as recipients of Film London’s Breakthrough Talent Award in 2021 and as collaborators on the Diablo IV Official Soundtrack, recorded at Abbey Road Institute Angel Studios. 

With collaboration at the heart of process, NYX has made projects with musicians such as Gazelle Twin, Vessel, Holy Other, Laura Misch, Hatis Noit, Iona Fortune, LCY and designers such as Dan Tobin Smith, Rosie Hastings and Hannah Quinlan, Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, Imogen Knight, Chloe Lamford, Tom Scutt and Jonathan Barnbrook. 

NYX also regularly run workshops that introduce singers and non-singers to using body and voice as a vessel for connection. NYX works to make choral music and singing accessible by using aural and visual scores, opening our processes up to those who do not read music, including participants of trauma therapy programmes and social prescribing services.