While Sarah Davachi has always tapped into the divine, her latest album is her most ambitious offering yet. Rife with diverse textures and patient, deliberate movement, Cantus, Descant is an eclectic ...

Descant is releasing "A Summer Reader". This issue of the magazine centres around the idea of being able to take its audience places — be it tropical destinations, modest towns, marvellous cities or ...

After 44 years, Toronto-based literary journal Descant Magazine has announced its latest issue will be its last. Editor-in-Chief Karen Mulhallen revealed that Descant has been in deficit for three ...

Playing pipe organs across five cities, Davachi uses their gothic plumbing to create intimate studies in frequency The pipe organs that lie – often unplayed and ignored – across tens of thousands of ...

Our much-loved Christmas carols wouldn't be the same without a grand descant floating above the melody. But what exactly is this alternative tune that we sing, and why do we sing it at Christmas time?

Though its name suggests otherwise, "organology" – the subfield of musicology in which Sarah Davachi has enmeshed herself since beginning her PhD at UCLA in 2017 – concerns itself with the historical ...

After 44 years in circulation, quarterly Canadian literary journal Descant magazine has announced that its winter 2014 issue, Descant 167: In A Cabinet of Curioisities, will be its last.

Descant magazine, one of the most recognized and respected literary journals in the country, is closing after 44 years of publication. “After long and painful negotiations and deliberations for four ...