Natasha Barrett
3D Audio Concert from the swim series / October 12, 2024
Natasha Barrett
Natasha Barrett (NO/UK) composes and presents concert works, sound art installations in public spaces, and multimedia interactive music, using a wide range of sounds, new technologies, and experimental techniques. She is widely known for her electronic, acousmatic, and electroacoustic live music as well as her use of 3D audio in composition: her works have been commissioned and performed worldwide and have won 28 international awards, including the Nordic Council Music Prize (Nordic countries), the Giga-Hertz Award (Germany), and the Thomas Seelig Fixed Media Award (Germany). She collaborates with performers, visual artists, architects, and scientists, performs live electronics and spatial audio, and is a member of the performance ensemble Electric Audio Unit, which curates and performs concerts across a broad spectrum of electronic music genres.
swim 2024
With the series swim (spatial works and immersive music), ZiMMT invites you in 2024 to throw musical habits overboard. Nine concerts and three sound installations, bridging multiple genres, pose new questions. A broad spectrum of musical expressions from various genres is integrated into immersive, spatial experiences.
Fifteen very different local and international artists are part of swim. Their works range from intricately composed electroacoustic pieces to experimental approaches rooted in the aesthetics of club music. swim merges diverse sound worlds and lets radical approaches to music production and performance challenge conventional ideas. What is a live performance? Which technical means are used, and how do they expand musical expression? What happens to the role of the audience when it immerses itself in virtual sound worlds during an immersive performance?
Even ideas of what an instrument is are deconstructed, and familiar instruments are used in unusual ways.
During three-day microresidencies, musicians can develop their works on site using 3D audio technology and try out new approaches. All concerts will be live-streamed in high-quality binaural audio — for a spatial experience both on site and everywhere else.
