Música Electroacústica / Orquestra de Altifalantes
Natasha Barrett - espacialização sonora
PROGRAM
Dusk's Gait (2018) 12'00
As dusk falls, an ecosystem of fictional creatures appear, projecting their characters through their gait, or in other words, the manner in which they move. Dusk's Gait celebrates moments of real nature that may easily expire. The composition captures many late evenings and nighttime experiences of nature, and fantasies behind the veil of darkness.
An Impossible Moment from Venice. (approx: 8'00) (2023)
On the 1st September 2022 I landed in Venice for the first time. My goal was, within just a few days, to sketch out new compositions based on the soundscape as I experienced it. After some days of walking, listening, being both a tourist and trying not to be a tourist, I ventured back out with my microphones. In this concert I will play one of the Impossible Moments from Venice. It is a revision of one of the studies that I composed in lightning speed in the final days of my stay, and one in a series of pieces where I converge aspects of the soundscape into real, yet impossible moments. The work is part of the Reconfiguring the Landscape research project hosted at the Norwegian Academy of Music and funded by DUKI. Warm thanks to the Conservatorio di Musica B. Marcello in Venice for hosting my stay.
Speaking Spaces no.1: Heterotopia 25'00 (2021)
I no longer remember when I realised: rather than hearing a dog bark, a hawk screech, the traffic or a child, I instead heard the forest, the mountain, the rock-face and the city. The spaces were speaking with their acoustic reflections, but it was something more too. These encounters contradicted my normal perception and became transformative experiences during my walks through the landscape, which seemed to contain more layers of meaning than immediately evident to the eye and ear. 'Speaking Spaces' is a series of works that explore these alternative conceptions of common space. Without knowing what to call this first composition I stumbled across Foucault's concept of Heterotopia as a mirror, which seemed to embody much of what I was experiencing. 'Speaking Spaces no.1: Heterotopia' is a journey from a forest to a winter shoreline. Heterotopia was commissioned by Electric Audio Unit with support from the Norwegian Composers' Fund.
Natasha Barrett (1972) is a composer and performer exploring new technologies and experimental approaches to sound in a broad range of contemporary music, including concert works, public space sound-art installations and multimedia interactive music. 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 first 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 most recently the Thomas Seelig Fixed Media Award for 2023. She collaborates with performers, visual artists, architects and scientists and is also active in performance, education and research.
