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Natasha Barrett
… I would suggest running (not walking) to your favorite vendor and take the plunge. — Avant Music News
Eine absolute Empfehlung. — Skug, Autriche
Ancienne étudiante de
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- Compositeur·trice(s): Natasha Barrett
- Image de couverture: Trym Ivar Bergsmo
- Norsk Komponistforening
CD (IMED 0262, 2002)
- 1Three Fictions (Northern Mix) (2000), 10:34support
- 1In the Rain, 3:51
- 2
- 3Outside Snow Falls, 3:02
- 4Displaced:Replaced: Fog, light wind (2001), 2:46support
- 5Red Snow (Microclimate II) (1998, 2001), 15:39support
- 6Displaced:Replaced: Wet and gusty (2001), 1:42support
- 7Viva la Selva! (1999), 17:28support
- 7Morning introduction (claiming territory) [Introduction matinale (territoire revendiqué)] + Midday heat (mad insects, mellow birds and lazy day dreams) [Chaleur du midi (insectes furieux, oiseaux moelleux et rêves nonchalants)] + Dancing at night (a frenzied bizarre) [Danse de nuit (une étrangeté frénétique)] + Dawn and rain (long live the forest
! ) [Aube et pluie (vive la forêt! )], 17:28
- 8Displaced:Replaced: Gathering wind (2001), 2:50support
- 9The Utility of Space (2000), 13:25support
- 10Industrial Revelations (2001), 11:32support
- Étiquette: empreintes DIGITALes
- IMED 0262
- 2002
- UCC 771028026227
- Durée totale: 76:41
- OGpak
- 125 mm × 125 mm × 10 mm
- 50 g
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- Cet article peut être téléchargé et/ou écouté sur le site empreintesdigitales.bandcamp.com.
- 1Three Fictions (Northern Mix) (2000), 10:34support
- 1In the Rain, 3:51
- 2
- 3Outside Snow Falls, 3:02
- 4Displaced:Replaced: Fog, light wind (2001), 2:46support
- 5Red Snow (Microclimate II) (1998, 2001), 15:39support
- 6Displaced:Replaced: Wet and gusty (2001), 1:42support
- 7Viva la Selva! (1999), 17:28support
- 7Morning introduction (claiming territory) [Introduction matinale (territoire revendiqué)] + Midday heat (mad insects, mellow birds and lazy day dreams) [Chaleur du midi (insectes furieux, oiseaux moelleux et rêves nonchalants)] + Dancing at night (a frenzied bizarre) [Danse de nuit (une étrangeté frénétique)] + Dawn and rain (long live the forest
! ) [Aube et pluie (vive la forêt! )], 17:28
- 8Displaced:Replaced: Gathering wind (2001), 2:50support
- 9The Utility of Space (2000), 13:25support
- 10Industrial Revelations (2001), 11:32support
- Étiquette: empreintes DIGITALes
- IMED 0262_NUM
- 2002
- UCC 771028026289
- Durée totale: 76:41
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Une courte traversée de la Mer du Nord et nous voilà en Angleterre. Nous nous dirigeons sur Birmingham, un important pôle créatif en musique électroacoustique, grâce au travail du compositeur
L’électroacoustique scandinave demeure encore trop peu connue chez nous, mais le catalogue d’empreintes DIGITALes nous permet d’y faire un court arrêt pour compléter ce périple.
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This one sounds like a mixture of digital “granular” synthesis and all sorts of concrete manipulation. It’s a mass of sonic swarms and textures that scatter and dive around, sometimes in big churning fabrics (kinda
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Espaces de sons: les sons environnementaux dans l’électroacoustique
Les sons environnementaux (field recordings) ont toujours fasciné les compositeurs électroacoustiques, ceci depuis les Cinq études de bruits (1948) de
En fait, chaque compositeur semble privilégier une approche différente par rapport aux sons environnementaux. Alors que l’écologie sonore voit fleurir des artistes du microphone tels que
De jeunes compositeurs s’ajoutent constamment au paysage (sonore…) et il serait malvenu de les confiner au silence tant leur travail nous semble digne d’intérêt. Mentionnons d’abord le californien
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La première pratique une forme de juxtaposition de couches sonores en interaction mutuelle, les unes provenant de l’environnement direct (donc naturelles et parfois reconnaissables), les autres étant transformées.
L’association des deux créateurs peut se justifier par une partie de la thématique de certaines œuvres.
Avec
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Le disque est composé de deux triptyque, et quatre autres morceaux de longue durée.
Three Fictions (Northern Mix) est composé de trois images, trois scènes mises en musique. Le travail de Natasha Barrett consiste globalement à recréer des ambiances, des sonorités connues, par synthèse sonore, non seulement en créant le son mais aussi en le répartissant dans le temps et l’espace. Ainsi sur la première partie de ce triptyque, intitulée In the Rain, un algorithme simule la pluie qui tombe sur une plaque métallique. Ce travail est ensuite habillé par quelques sons concrets comme un clocher, des oiseaux, des sons évoquant le calme après la tempête sur Midnight Sun
Le second triptyque, Displaced:Replaced, composé de très courts morceaux se consacre à un élément précis déjà mis en évidence par le titre
Des quatre autres titres, on retiendra Viva la Selva
Du cinéma pour les oreilles, et une écoute conseillée au casque pour profiter pleinement de la distribution des sons.
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I found that this music was ideally suited to walks around the quieter portions of New York on clear winter nights. Barrett’s muse is a snow-swept one, or at least it seems so to me, and the whispered half-words and semi-phrases with which she peppers her compositions recreate the impressions of conversations overheard on the street through cold and deadened air. Her sometimes vanishing tones rarely build to a crescendo
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Not so long ago, electronic music was the province of those lucky enough to be able to gain access into the squeaky clean labs of Ircam or similar institutions, where large, impossibly expensive boxes festooned with dials and flashing lights awaited the bidding of the composer. Now that a similar level of wizardry is achievable with just the aid of a laptop, and contemporary electronica made in bedrooms all over the world enjoys cutting edge status, it’s tempting to wonder what the point of ‘classical’ electronic music actually is…
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Barrett’s structural precision gives her pieces a strong sense of narrative as well as place. Tiny sonic fictions unravel throughout
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Grâce au label québécois Empreintes Digitales, Solénoïde reprend le cap d’un monde électroacoustique complexe et parfois merveilleux dans lequel les enceintes font office d’instrument à part entière. Cet univers nous est dépeint cette fois-ci par une enseignante anglaise vivant en Norvège. À même pas 30 ans, cette jeune femme bardée de diplôme signe avec
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The empreintes DIGITALes label has over the years released lots of material by composers of so called “musique concrète” and “electroacoustic” music. For those unfamiliar with these genres, this sort of music originated almost half a century ago, when various “classical” composers started experimenting with the use and possibilities of studio-recording equipment for their compositions. Amongs these electronica pioneers were people like
Now, half a century later there are a lot of composers with “schooled” backgrounds that make their compositions with electronic equipment only. Over the years some famous composers, like
The works of these composers are both very soundtrack-like in nature, highly processed sounds form almost natural flows, like an orchestra made out of samples slowly evolving towards its climax. Just like standard classical compositions these are very dense and highly emotional, ranging from very soft sounds, to huge walls of sound. These releases are quite similar in many respects, although
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She is fully at ease with works for instruments and live electronics, sound installations, dance, theatre and animation projects, but her heart and soul dwell in the acousmatic tape composition.
Track 1 –
A soft tuning in, fading in, to the fire of brush – or, as the poem suggests
Strong vibrations, frictional grindings, bubbling simmerings, shimmerings – a sudden laughter out of unreality, swallowed by silence like matter sucked into a black hole… rolling, shifting motions
A downward glissando, like a distant dive bomber at the end of WWII, and some inconspicuous closeness populated with screws and bolts of the age of industrial paraphernalia… caressed by solitary gamelan gongs along the curvature of the planet, the horizon shivering with bent light through the gravitational field, upheld by the virtual particles of quantum mechanics… and the World Cat meows and purrs, extremely closely miked behind interstellar clouds of Creation
Evidently, the move to Norway, but also an inherent affinity for, or intuitive understanding of, the interplay of human and natural forces, spirit and matter, has a decisive effect on the composer’s work. She has roots in the soil and the clay and the rock, and a soaring mind among the stars. She rides a slingshot through curved space
I moved to Norway in the winter. Leaving behind everything I knew, I felt increasingly aware of the environment
: the variety of snow spiraling in the wind; intricate details of vegetation enhanced by crystal formations; the soft sun and bright landscape; footprints suggesting their own scenario… and the potential color lying dormant.
A moment – the sensual feeling of a moment – flashes by, then recedes… only to return with its catch of time residue, which then displays on the inside of your eyelids as the moment widens to encompass the holy NOW of FOREVER, the mighty HERE of all directions.
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The beauty of this forceful music is grand
The music changes character, winds down into a slow breath of metallic specs riding murmuring infras in a thoughtful, spiraling circumspection, the open, saliva-running jaws of Bardo fantasies nearby – and concrete soundscapes open their little shutters onto peaceful still lives of crows and farmhands deep inside the music, and in the final shrill moments the work winds down into a winding bead of brilliant sonic pearls, rattling in shimmering reflections down the line.
In earphones this piece is a shattering, mind-blowing ride. Over heavy loudspeakers it moves your mind sky-high and your furniture around the room
Some sections are so deeply pastoral that they bring me into a forgotten orchard behind an old castle ruin on an island in Lake Båven in Sweden, which I came upon once when canoeing by myself across misty waters. Giant bumble bees, the size of sheep, murmur around you in this music, and the residue of evil intentions flutter around you in swarms of half-uttered morphemes… acrid, bitter…
The conclusion is even more mystic, like precipitation on the fern of a forest meadow, where the force fields of good spirits fondle the moment…
The third meteorological insertion is
The sensation of a kind of Bardo walk increases along the duration of the piece, drifting over in a dreamscape, into the interior of a dream that blows through the inner expanses of a life not asked for but graciously given and humbly received…
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