Following 2023's critically-acclaimed
Reconfiguring the Landscape, Natasha Barrett returns with a new collection of pieces originating from environmental sounds recorded using 3D ambisonic microphones.
This collection of pieces originates from environmental sounds recorded using 3D ambisonic microphones. The recordings have been deconstructed, processed, and composed into abstract musical journeys that no longer transport the listener to the original recording locations. Instead, they tell stories—partly of human-made dystopias and partly in search of a melancholic beauty in what the future may hold.
"Natasha Barrett's insightful attention to the spatial and durational character of real-world sound and to the compositional qualities of moments of memory make her both an indicative figure from the current musical landscape and an exceptional presence within it."
— The Wire
Natasha Barrett (born 1972 in Norwich, England, lives and works in Oslo, Norway) is a British electroacoustic music composer. She composes concert works, public space sound-art installations and multimedia interactive music using a broad palette of sounds, new technologies and experimental techniques. She is internationally renowned for her electroacoustic and acousmatic music, and use of 3D sound technology in composition. Her work is commissioned and performed throughout the world and has received over 20 international awards including the Nordic Council Music Prize, the Giga-Hertz Award (Germany), five prizes and the Euphonie D'Or in the Bourges International Electroacoustic Music Awards (France), two first prizes in the International Rostrum for electroacoustic music and the honorary Thomas Seelig Fixed Media Award for 2023. She regularly collaborates with performers, visual artists, architects and scientists, is active as a performer of live-electronics and spatial audio, and as a researcher has a track record in both artistic and academic publications.
