Heterotopia

Speaking Spaces, No. 1: Heterotopia

Urban Melt in Park Palais Meran

Growth

Reconfiguring the Landscape

Speaking Spaces 2: Surfaces from Graz

Presence / Nærvær

Impossible Moments from Venice 1

Impossible Moments from Venice 2

Remote Sensing on the Beach

Flammepunkt: Megaphone and Fire

'Flammepunkt' was a multi-media outdoor performance that took place on the 14th September 2014, Eidsvoll, Norway. 'Flammepunkt' was created to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the Norwegian Constitution.

The music for 'Flammepunkt' consists of 22 miniature compositions (in stereo) and a multi-channel composition. The track you're listening to is a stereo mix of the latter.

The work were inspired by observing how people and governments interact in situations of disagreement: what happens when a large proportion of the population support a protest against their government, what happens when the general public feel they have no voice in their own country, what happened during the political revolutions and democratic fights in Europe and the Middle East.

My own markers on the track show a rough translation of Norwegian texts.

For more information on the multi-media performance: flammepunkt.no. For more information on the music: www.natashabarrett.org

Flammepunkt

Night's blackbird  is a improvisation performed by Natasha Barrett - computer Stefan Ostersjo - guitar. Night's blackbird  is recorded on the CD Black Bile Extempore.

http://users.notam02.no/~natashab/cd_audio_extracts/blackbile.html

Night's blackbird (extract, 2009). From the album Black Bile Extempore.

Sub Terra (extract) is an extract from the track Sub Terra, released in the album Bouteilles de Klein.
Natasha Barrett 2003-2008.
http://users.notam02.no/~natashab/cd_audio_extracts/bc.html

Sub Terra (extract) 2008. From album Bouteilles de Klein.

Rhizaria (extract) is an extract from the track Rhizaria (cello and live electronics), released in the album Bouteilles de Klein. Cello: Tanja Orning; Computer: Natasha Barrett.
Natasha Barrett 2003-2008

http://users.notam02.no/~natashab/cd_audio_extracts/bc.html

Rhizaria (extract). 2007

Stereo mixes of some of the 'waves' of sound that wash through the We Are Not Alone  installation space. It's tricky to make a representative mix down of ambisonics, wave field synthesis and ultrasonic sound beam into a normal stereo track. These sounds serve just as a simple illustration of the basic materials. 


We Are Not Alone - wave 1

Glacial Loop (Microclimate III): An evocative journey by boat to the foot of the Briksdalsbreen glacier. One of four works in the Microclimate III-VI set.

Glacial Loop (2007, extract from MCIII-VI)

Alto sax, soprano sax, bass, classical guitar, percussion, accordion, computer / live electronics. Commissioned by POING-FEED with funds from the Norwegian Cultural Council.

Live recording, Huddersfield 2013.

A collector's chest holds many small compartments within which are organised all kinds of treasures: from a child's stones, shells, dead insects, leaves or trinkets, to priceless type-specimens or collections from world voyages. In this composition, treasures are collected from recordings of the Norwegian ensemble POING-FEED's interpretation of composed musical ideas. These are then transformed and organised as 'type specimens' in a collector's chest of sounds. The music assembles in performance: improvisation meets notation and acousmatic sound, and a multitude of compartments are opened to let sound escape into the air.

A Collector's Chest was commissioned by POING-FEED with support from the Norwegian Cultural Council.

A Collectors Chest - live recording

Reality and Secrets no.2 (2010, 18'45). Extract. From Peat & Polymer CD.

http://users.notam02.no/~natashab/cd_audio_extracts/Peat_Polymer.html

Polymer

Reality and Secrets no.2 extract. Album: Peat & Polymer

Sound Exposure in Peru (2014, 33'00). Extract. From Peat & Polymer CD.

http://users.notam02.no/~natashab/cd_audio_extracts/Peat_Polymer.html

Peat

Sound Exposure in Peru (extract) Album: Peat & Polymer

'A Soundwalk through Shanghai' (2014, 8'35). Extract. From Peat & Polymer CD.

http://users.notam02.no/~natashab/cd_audio_extracts/Peat_Polymer.html

A Soundwalk through Shanghai. Album:  Peat & Polymer

Improvisation collaboration with cellist Tanja Orning, from the CD DrOx.

http://users.notam02.no/~natashab/cd_audio_extracts/drox.html

Myelin (2007). From the CD DrOx.

Zinc Finger (2007). From the CD DrOx.

Extract from Topology Chamber 2 (5th order 3D ambisonics).

'Topology Chamber 2' is an acousmatic composition in high-order ambisonics (5th order 3D) created from the sonification of spatial performance and instrument motion. Data describing 3-D motion is captured from the recordings of a balloon and a cymbal being explored for their sounding characters. The motion data and sound recordings are analysed and segmented into micro- and meso-scale 'chunks' characterised by gestural qualities, and the chunks are in turn 'rearranged' into larger datasets by way of coarticulation and concatenation. These new datasets, idiomatic of the original gestural performance qualities are sonified using a custom made application where you can explore the spatial gestural image from it's 'inside', while maintaining realistic parallax and parameter scaling. The sonifications are then used as the building blocks for a composition exploring 'tangible' acousmatic sound, placing the listener alongside an invisible body-centred spatial expression where tensions emerge from the pull between known gestural archetypes and musical abstractions.

Topology Chamber 2 (2015, extract)

Extract from "He slowly fell and transformed into the terrain". Stereo version from 6th order 3D ambisonics. Still a test (mastering really tricky for this).

Full length on: https://www.sargasso.com/product/natasha-barrett-leap-seconds/

He slowly fell (2016, extract)Full length now released! See info

Here are some stereo mixes of some of the 'waves' of sound that wash through the space interacting with the light made by the bacteria. It's tricky to make a representative mix down of ambisonics, wave field synthesis and ultrasonic sound beam into a normal stereo track. These sounds serve just as a simple illustration of the basic materials. Also see video and sound: https://vimeo.com/141030686

We Are Not Alone - wave 6

Acousmatic composition realised in 6th-order 3D ambisonics. This is an short extract from the middle of the composition, rendered to 'normal' stereo. The original composition is 17'00. More info here:
http://www.natashabarrett.org/Involuntary_Expression.html

Full length on: https://www.sargasso.com/product/natasha-barrett-leap-seconds/

Involuntary Expression Stereo Extract. Full length now released! See info

Extract from the composition 'Innermost.'

Full version now available - Persistence of Sound presents a split LP from two leading voices in electroacoustic music: https://persistenceofsound.co.uk/souvenirs-caches-innermost

This is an extract of the music version of the work for 3D sound and stereoscopic video made in collaboration with Marc Downie.

This extract is in binaural and for headphone listening. Full duration 19'00 (2019).

Another extract can be heard on my YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCU_ca0nCL5pFH5wmJ8FhyDQ

More info at http://www.natashabarrett.org/

Innermost 2019 (Extract in binaural for headphones). Full lengh now released!

Extract from 'Dusk's Gate' (in binaural, for headphone listening).

Full version now on Leap Seconds: https://www.sargasso.com/product/natasha-barrett-leap-seconds/

Dusk's Gate, 2018 (Extract, in binaural). Full length now released! See info

Extract from 'Urban Melt in Park Palais Meran' (4'55-8'48). In binaural for headphone listening.

All source materials for this piece are from a single recording made in a public park in Graz. The recording was made with an EigenMike. I then decomposed the spatial soundfield to be able to extract individual sound sources and track their positions in space. This material then fed back into the composition.

Hope to soon be able to offer the full length track on CD / download.

More information: www.natashabarrett.org/

Urban Melt in Park Palais Meran, 2019 (extract starting 4'55, in binaural)

This is the binaural (headphones) version of 'Optical Tubes'. 'Optical Tubes' is movement 2 from the work 'Hidden Values', composed originally in 7th order 3D higher order ambisonics for the Espace de Projection, IRCAM, France.

http://users.notam02.no/~natashab/cd_audio_extracts/Peat_Polymer.html

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