NATASHA
BARRETT
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Toxic Colour: NOW OUT!
Review in the wire:
Interview in15 Questions:
Oslo release concert, 8th April
Review in A Closer Listen
World New Music Days 2025, Portugal
May 30th – June 7th, Lisbon - Porto
Very happy to release the news that "Impossible Moments from Venice 3: The Other Side of the Lagoon (2023)" was proposed by the Norwegian jury to represent Norway at the WNMD 2025, and now was been selected by the International Society for Contemporary Music jury for performance. Stay tuned for the concert date!
Constructions of Collapse and Desire
Immersive audio ambisonics, video multi-screen projection, live sound and real-time computer graphics.
After an artist residence at ZiMMT (Leipzig), I premiered the 30-minute long
"Constructions of Collapse and Desire" on the 12th October. 34 loudspeakers in 3D, 5 projection screens. Exhilarating experience, and wonderful support at ZiMMT. Planning a tour for 2025, different projection solutions. For enquiries, please contact via the link at the top of this site.
The Pink Asbestos concert preview. Live recording, 20th June 2024.
Natasha Barrett: live electronics, real-time computer graphics; Victoria Johnson: violin.
Here is another live recording performance; this time extracts from the debut of Pink Asbestos. The recording was made at Gamle Munch in Oslo, and was an experiment in real-computer graphics and live electronics sound processing improvisation.
Dream Divers: debut 2-hour 'sleep' concert. Live recording, 4th July 2024.
(Natasha Barrett: Live Electronics; Miriam Akkermann: Flute)
Here is the live electronics 'Dream Divers' 2-hour sleep concert stereo recording. Our debut was an immersive performance over a 3D loudspeaker array in Barcelona on the 4th July. The concert was a commission from the Lullabyte project investigating the effect of sound on sleep. Sweet dreams!
Impossible Moments from Venice 3: The Other Side of the Lagoon
Happy to reveal that Venice 3 is a prize winning work in the International Sonosfera Ambisonics Competition (ISAC 2024). Playing the work in concerts in Italy and France over full 3D loudspeaker arrays.
Impossible Moments from Venice 2
Impossible Moments from Venice 2, selected for Ars Electronica Forum Wallis 2024, can be heard in a specially remixed 16 channel version for the concert at MEbU Münster, 8th March.
Shimmering Cities: Live recording, premier.
Live recording of the premier of "Shimmering Cities". Performed by L'Ensemble Itinéraire, 50th Anniversary concert at IRCAM.
MIXTUR 2025
Excited to receive the Mixtur commission award for Electroacoustic / audiovisual works 2025! Honoured to be taking part in this a highly recommended festival that showcases new developments in music and sound art to a broad public. Stay tuned!
Shimmering Cities!
Thank you so much Ensemble Itinéraire and IRCAMs production team for playing my music and making the premier of "Shimmering Cities" a great success.
A sold out house.
An excited audience.
A very happy composer.
Goodbye Paris for now!
Sound Worlds Exhibition is OPEN - 24th-26th October 2023
Come to Gamle Munch at Tøyen in Oslo, and relax in the ocean of sound! It's a unique show. Open 24th-26th October, 11-19 (11-17). Free entrance.
The final show in mt Reconfiguring the Landscape artistic research project investigating how we can use 3D sound-art to make us more aware of the interesting aspects of our noisy urban sound landscape.
40 speakers, including a 3D dome.
Listen in stereo
