Circuit des Yeux: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert

The Tiny Desk is working from home for the foreseeable future. Introducing NPR Music’s Tiny Desk (home) concerts, bringing you performances from across the country and the world. It’s the same spirit — stripped-down sets, an intimate setting — just a different space. Lars Gotrich | October 25, 2021 Haley Fohr’s voice is built for cathedrals, but we’ll take a funeral chapel. In Circuit des Yeux’s Tiny Desk (home) concert — recorded amid the sepia-toned stained glass of the historic May Chapel at the Rosehill Cemetery and Mausoleum — Fohr’s operatic, four-octave vibrato contains a wondrous terror, but also an illumination of being. This unique setting is not merely a venue for the Chicago experimental music scene that Fohr calls home, but also a reflection of Circuit des Yeux’s latest album, -io. In it, Fohr explores how grief not only shapes people but transforms them — that death (of self, of a loved one, of an idea) is not a finality, but an opening. On “Vanishing,“ she brandishes a 12-string acoustic guit