Natasha Barrett

Natasha Barrett is a composer, new media artist and researcher. She creates acousmatic and live-electronic concert music, public space sound installations and audiovisual works. She is widely known for her artistic exploration of 3D sound and ambisonics. Her work is commissioned and performed worldwide and has received awards in over 30 international competitions, including the most prestigious prize available for Nordic composers, the Nordic Council Music Prize. In 2023, her CD "Reconfiguring the Landscape" was rated Number 1 in The Wire magazine's Contemporary Classics.

In addition to her solo career, she regularly collaborates with performers, visual artists, architects and scientists, and often draws on scientific data as a source for artistic exploration. Some of the highlights include 3D audio-visual art-works with the USA-based OpenEndedGroup jointly commissioned by IRCAM (FR) and the Ultima Festival (NO), sound-architectural installations in collaboration with OCEAN Design Research Association (NO), science-art applications of sonification in collaboration with the department of geosciences at the University of Oslo (NO), and live electronics collaborations with soloists and ensembles including Ensemble l’Itinéraire (IRCAM, FR), and Norway’s Cikada quartet. She is also the co-director of the performance ensemble Electric Audio Unit, which curates and performs spatial music concerts.