tingles and clicks

Beachcomber

Natasha Barrett
© Jan Erik Breimo
Beachcomber

Many years ago, when recording and composition technology was of the analogue world, the tiny sounds that I tried to capture as a teenager were lost in a floor of noise. I remember exploring the sounds of a bay, which was deserted due to the sea being too cold to attract the sun loungers. My recordings and musical ideas merely peaked above the equipment's analogue noise, just as my memories of those places now merely peak above the hundreds of thousands of events that have since passed.

In this new interactive work composed especially for musikprotokoll 2020, I have revisited these sounds with digital means, spiced their simplistic nature and drawn them closer, to excite areas beyond the ear. As a sonic beachcomber you can explore and find your own narrative and your own sensations:

The waves will take you,
the waves will take you back,
early in the twilight,
late in the dusk,
finding sensations in the sounds that others let pass,
the barnacles' tentacles,
the cockles' shells,
the wild flower, the bee, the wave, the glass, the sharp stone, the wind-blown field of silica.

Natasha Barrett

Natasha Barrett

Natasha Barrett
© Natasha Barrett
Natasha Barrett

Natasha Barrett 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 widely known 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 and most recently the honorary Thomas Seelig Fixed Media Award for 2023. She regularly collaborates with performers, visual artists, architects and scientists, and is active as a performer of live-electronics and spatial audio.

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2020 | Beachcomber