About

Natasha Anderson is a musician, composer and installation artist from Melbourne, Australia. She makes electro-acoustic, audiovisual and musique concrète works in a variety of forms – from live performance to commissioned scores to gallery installations. A primary interest is the creation of idiosyncratic and uncanny sounds that generate tension through their precise formal placement and dislocation from a former identity. Her works variously explore the abject, intense psychoacoustic experiences and the whiplash juxtaposition of extremes.

Recent commissions include those from the Bionic Ear Institute — to write a work for people with cochlear implants — and Judith Hamann for a solo cello and electronics piece. Her work Morphallaxis, with Jerome Noetinger and Amanda Stewart, was chosen by the ABC as Australia's entry in the 2009 International Rostrum of Composers.

She has worked as a composer and sound designer for the Sydney Theatre Company, de Quincey Co and Finucane & Smith. Her installations and sound art have been exhibited at Carriageworks (Sydney), MONA (Hobart), Melbourne International Arts Festival and Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts (Melbourne). In 2010 she was invited to be an artist in residence at the Montalvo Arts Centre in California.

As a performer Anderson regularly tours Europe and Australasia and has played at such venues and festivals as the Pompidou Centre, Musique Action Festival, the Festival de Musiques Innovatrices, Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, Gdansk Centre for Contemporary Art and Auckland Art Gallery. In Australia she has performed at most major festivals including The Melbourne International Arts Festival and Liquid Architecture.

With the quintet Thymolphthalein, formed for the 2009 Südwestrundfunk New Jazz Meeting in Baden Baden, she has performed at the Music Unlimited 24 Festival (Austria) and the Melbourne International Jazz Festival.

Natasha has premiered and recorded many new works, performing on several releases for John Zorn’s Tzadik Composer Series (New York). She has further releases on Editions Mego (Thymolphthalein) and Cajid.

Anderson holds a Master of Arts (Victoria University) focusing on confronting classical notions of Western art music as intrinsically incorporeal and transcendent through the prism of Georges Bataille’s concept of the formless. She also holds a Post-graduate Performance Diploma from the Amsterdam Conservatorium and a B.Mus from Melbourne University. From 2010-2011 she was lecturer in Performance in the School of Art at RMIT University.