Wednesday 16 September 2026, 7.30pm
PROGRAMME 16 SEPTEMBER:
Lucie Nezri, for no hay banda (2026)
Co-commissioned by Another Sky & NO HAY BANDA
Kalun Leung, trombone
Daniel Áñez, piano
Noam Bierstone, vibraphone
Daniel Leguizamón, Tallado en el aire (2020)
Adrianne Munden-Dixon, violin
Daniel Áñez, piano
Cerpintxt, archival research & electronics
Improv set
Dali de Saint Paul, voice & electronics
Cerpintxt, electronics
Audréanne Filion, cello
Lori Freedman, bass clarinet
Daniel Leguizamón, Tallado en el aire
Like artists (and audience), every space bears its own imprint, trajectory and will – shaped by the interests it brings together, its acoustic particularities and the totality of sounds it hosts, invokes, fosters and accumulates. Each place is, in itself, a rich and profound sonic universe – a universe carved in air. Tallado en el aire begins from an engagement with the sonic universe in which it takes place, and with the relationship its performers establish with it, considering both certain sounds that occur in the room during the performance itself, and the sounds present in the “phonographies”.
For this performance of Tallado en el aire, the electroacoustic sound artist Cerpintxt has dug into the sonic archives of Another Sky Festival, preparing and performing excerpts of recordings captured in Cafe Oto in 2023, 2024 and 2026.
Another Sky is a London-based festival and artistic platform celebrating experimental music from the SWANA (South West Asia & North Africa) region and diaspora. We present composed, improvised and electronic music; short films and moving-image works; new commissions; workshops and an independent label & publisher fair. We are delighted to host NO HAY BANDA – long-time collaborators, extraordinary creative thinkers, community leaders and performers – for their UK debut, in celebration of their receipt of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation Ensemble Prize 2026. Together we present a programme which includes three commissions which have been developed closely with the composers throughout 2026, by Dali de Saint Paul, Lucie Nezri and Sam Salem.
https://anotherskyfestival.com
NO HAY BANDA is a Montreal-based organization committed to the production and performance of music rooted in exploratory and avant-garde practices. NO HAY BANDA presents an annual concert series in Montreal that features a variety of local and visiting artists, and represents a flexible ensemble of musicians – a “house band” of sorts – that performs and tours original productions. Throughout these activities, NO HAY BANDA aims to provide a space for artists working on the fringes of established genres to realize projects that would not take place otherwise. Furthermore, NO HAY BANDA records and produces albums that are released on the in-house record label, No Hay Discos.
nohaybanda.ca
Supported by Arts Council England, the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation, the Marchus Trust, Canada Council for the Arts and Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec.
Lucie Nezri is a composer, artist and performer born in Hyères and currently based in Berlin. For her, sound is a doorway to reflecting on how knowledge is created, transmitted, transformed and sometimes lost, particularly within marginalised and diasporic communities. Her work combines algorithmic compositional techniques based on probability with a focus on harmony and tuning. Through open scores, she develops pieces that can unfold in multiple versions, inviting musicians and listeners alike to experience them from different perspectives. Nezri has worked with Kali Ensemble, Clara de Asís, Rebecca Lane, Kristia Michael, Edgars Rubenis, Nirantar Yakthumba, Saâdane Afif, Arnold Dreyblatt, Catherine Lamb, Chiyoko Szlavnics and Michael Winter, amongst others.
Daniel Leguizamón studied composition and philosophy at the Universidad de Los Andes in Bogotá. As a composer, performer, teacher, researcher, cultural manager and editor, he is dedicated to contemporary and experimental practice in Colombia. He is a member of various experimental music ensembles, including the Bogotá Improvisers Orchestra, and is co-founder of the Círculo Colombiano de Música Contemporánea (CCMC).
Dali de Saint Paul is a raw experimental vocalist, a performer, a composer, a producer and cultural actor of the Bristol experimental music scene. Her particular use of vocals through fx blurs sonic borders, questions gender stereotypes and destabilises spatial and linguistic borders; as a lyricist, she mixes poetics and politics to bring intensity to her performances. With her self-exploding project EP/64 the Ephemeral Project 64, which involved more than 40 artists over six years (2016-22), Dali refreshed conceptions of improvisation, bringing back the focus on community in music culture. A prolific collaborator, she has worked with Moor Mother, Valentina Magaletti, Mariam Rezaei and more. She’s the searing voice of post-industrial duo HARRGA and of the experimental film, light and sound performance Penumbra. As a producer she operates under the alias Content Provider. In 2024 she received an Oram Award. In 2025 she held a three-day residency at Cafe Oto, performed at the New Music Biennial with Penumbra and released “Endless Summer” as Content Provider, which was named one of the best tapes of the year by The Quietus. In 2026 she presented her first solo performance, “Melted For Love”, at Sonics Acts in Amsterdam.
Alaa Yousry is an Egyptian electroacoustic sound artist and neuroscientist who performs under the alias Cerpintxt. Her work is concerned with generating an invented language of a particular strain of softness through phonetic entropy and augmented instrumentation. She works with cut-ups and dialectics to decimate language and linear constructs of temporality, in an entropic process of lingual erosion into protoconversation. The textural counterparts of her sound include wind instruments, broken turntablism, augmented cello, reel-to-reels, tape recorders, granular and modular synthesis. Her recent album Refugees of the Symbolic Network is an archaeoacoustic study on the convolution reverb of the King's Chamber of the Giza Pyramid, deconstructing the work of poets Izz al-Din Manasirah and Sargon Boulus. She has performed at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Cafe Oto, IKLECTIK, Radiophrenia, Another Sky, Göteborg Art Sounds, Field Maneuvers, Experiment Intrinsic, Electrowerkz and more. Her work has been reviewed by The Wire, The Quietus and Mixmag. She is a resident artist at Radio Alhara, Mutant Radio and RadioSyg.ma. She also curates the London-based event Boundary Condition: a series of site-responsive, multimedia durational sonic events investigating parallels between dark jazz, hauntology and musique concrète as nostalgia-centric practices.
https://www.cerpintxt.com/refugees-of-the-symbolic-network
https://linktr.ee/cerpintxt
