UPCOMING:
Pre-order on SONO LUMINUS
EARTHWORKS
released April 25, 2025
on Sono Luminus
“Nathan Davis’s Earthworks is a unique acousmatic piece, a 40-minute conceptual and musical love child of land art, environmental activism and music concrete in which the composer orchestrates the sonic outcome of the extraction, processing and use of common commercial materials of our contemporary built environment. It is an audio tapestry of drilling, fracking, stirring, slurring, scraping, cracking, popping and hammering, with the bright thread of one very intimate human voice woven through it… Davis has created a work that is not merely mournful or unsettling, but also ecstatic.” - Peter Catapano
cover illustration by Gabriel Vergara
Illustrations by Gabriel Vergara, mounted to speaker panels designed by Nathan Davis, photographed by Zdeněk Porcal (Studio Flusser), used by permission from VI PER Gallery (Prague)
Magdalene: I am the utterance of my name
JUNE 13-30 at HERE ARts in NYC
from Sylvia Milo and Nathan Davis,
the award-winning creators of “The Other Mozart”:
“Magdalene: I am the utterance of my name” is a work of music-theater that illuminates the myths, beliefs and contradictions that have surrounded Mary Magdalene for over 2000 years. Drawing from ancient texts, artworks, and contemporary writings, the piece is a transformative and spiritual experience that wrestles with flawed histories in an attempt to reach true transcendence.
“spellbinding and mystical … Davis’s use of the Zither was sensual.”
- Opening Night (NYC)
“Davis’ vision and voice in the piece is undeniable; his transcendent use of sand and water as instruments elevates the piece through the tactile embodiment of spiritual flow.” - BroadwayDNA (NYC)
Official Trailer
Neutral Buoyant, released on Infrequent Seams
Order on Bandcamp
It is beautiful, haunting, immersive…
It is both of this world and somehow beyond it.
Cover image by Nicolas Floc’h - Paysages productifs, Invisible, Bec de l’aigle, surface, la Ciotat, 2019 @ ADAGP, Paris 2019, used with permission
LISTEN
Hagoromo, a dance opera, live at BAM Next Wave, with International Contemporary Ensemble, Brooklyn Youth Chorus, Katalin Karolyi, Peter Tantsits, Wendy Whelan, and Jock Soto.
Hammerclaw for shamisen and hammered dulcimer, performed by Hidejiro Honjoh and Nathan Davis at the Japan Society.
Traverser for bowed psaltery and electronics, with reactive light sculpture by Liz Liguori, performed live at the Fridman Gallery (NYC)
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