Extracts selection

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

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/

Extracts selection

Natasha Barrett