bio

hyperstisound creates maximalist electronic music drawing from progressive jazz, art pop, and contemporary concert music, with a deliberate inclination to subvert the genre's clichés. Their compositions operate through techniques that challenge conventional notions of rhythm and structure, algorithmic composition, spectralism, serialism, and musique concrète, building a sonic universe that resists easy categorization.

The duo's trajectory began in 2007, when Andrea Paz (Chile/Brazil) and Hayyim Gadi Asher (Brazil) met in the corridors of a music university, where both immersed themselves in experimental concert music and quickly flourished. Recognition within specialized circles came swiftly, leading to tours that carried their unsettling sound beyond Brazil's borders, including a significant stint in England.

That initial phase of exploring unconventional textures and forms lasted until 2018, when the duo's artistic restlessness began demanding new directions. A turn toward electronic music was the first signal of a metamorphosis that would unfold over the following years. Even through periods of hiatus, when Andrea and Hayyim were each pursuing solo careers as producers, composers, and instrumentalists, the two never fully severed their collaborative thread. For years, they performed regularly for patients in hospitals and care homes for the elderly, one of the quietest and most meaningful chapters of their shared history.

In recent years, the duo has reorganized around Hyperstisound as their central artistic project. Their map of influences is deliberately dense: Tristan Murail and Pierre Boulez in concert music; Aphex Twin and Boards of Canada in electronics; Egberto Gismonti and Hermeto Pascoal in jazz; Radiohead and King Crimson in art pop-rock. The project also engages with philosophical concepts such as hyperstition and the rhizome, layers of meaning that permeate the music without ever fully revealing themselves. The release of their first album, “our chosen beliefs about the future can retroactively form and shape our present realities”, is scheduled for September.