bio

For years, while building solo careers as producers, composers, and instrumentalists, Andrea Paz (Chile/Brazil) and Hayyim Gadi Asher (Brazil) kept alive a quiet commitment: playing regularly for patients in hospitals and nursing homes. It was there that the two of them truly understood what everything they know how to do is for: not to impress those who understand music, but to reach those who need it most. That experience changed the way they came to listen to and make music. Today, under the name hyperstisound, the duo creates rhizomatic, maximalist electronic music: textures that seem to breathe, frequencies that generate images, rhythms that seem to lose themselves in the air. Fragments appear and disappear. There's something nostalgic about this sound, as if you were remembering something that never happened and, even so, felt a longing for it.

Their journey began in 2007, in the halls of a music university, where they immersed themselves in experimental classical music and soon gained recognition. Tours took the duo's sound beyond Brazil, including a notable stint in England. That phase lasted until 2018, when the desire to explore other paths led them to electronic music, setting off a transformation that would be completed in the years that followed.

The name hyperstisound, and the concept behind it, grew out of a reflection on hyperstition: the idea that a belief, if held with enough conviction, can, over time, come to shape reality. It's the same idea behind the title of the duo's debut album, due out in September: "our chosen beliefs about the future can retroactively form and shape our present realities."