Natasha Barrett will present her sound installation Rain Forest during the Spor Festival on May 10 to 13, 2007 in Århus (Denmark). As for the musical piece Capture éphémère by Bernard Parmegiani, it will be presented in a version performed by The Ghettoblaster Ensemble.

Second weekend of Soundings… on February 2 to 4, 2007 at the Reid Concert Hall in Edinburgh (UK). On the programme, works by Adrian Moore, Pete Stollery, Jonty Harrison, Francis Dhomont, Natasha Barrett, and several others.

This first weekend of Soundings… has 4 concerts on October 27 to 29, 2006 at the Reid Concert Hall in Edinburgh (UK). On October 28 Pete Stollery will premiere scènes, rendez-vous, composed at the GRM studios, and spatialize the works … et ainsi de suite… by Jonty Harrison, and Espace / Escape by Francis Dhomont. Natasha Barrett, Gilles Gobeil, Elsa Justel, Denis Smalley, and Annette Vande Gorne are amongst the twenty composers performed.

A concert of acousmatic music at the Powis Hall of the University of Wales Bangor (UK) on October 26, 2006 will present, works by David Berezan, Natasha Barrett, John Young, and Andrew Lewis, amongst others.

Natasha Barrett was awarded the Nordisk Råds Musikkpris (Nordic Council Music Prize) on June 3, 2006 for her work … fetters…. Twelve composers and musicians from Denmark, Faroe Islands, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden were finalists. The jury states that Natasha Barrett “shows a clear consciousness of the capacity of silence to highlight the various interest-moments in the composition, in a shifting interplay between activity and calm, chaos and order. In addition, Barrett demonstrates an impressively skilful grasp of the unique technological potential of the medium.” The prize will be presented to her on November 1 in Copenhagen.

Robert Normandeau and Jean-François Denis presented the closing concert of the “Akusmatisches Wochenende” festival produced by the Studio für elektroakustische Musik (SeaM) in Weimar (Germany) on June 18, 2006. The programme included works by Normandeau, and, spatialized by Denis, short works by Elainie Lillios, Elsa Justel, Elizabeth Hoffman, Natasha Barrett, John Oswald, Yves Daoust, and Pierre Alexandre Tremblay.