About

Natasha is a Melbourne musician and visual artist working internationally across a number of genres. She creates live electro-acoustic and audiovisual performances, composes acousmatic and classical works, builds sound installations, and works as a composer and sound designer for dance and theatre.

Anderson regularly tours Europe and Australasia and has played at the Pompidou Centre (Paris), Musique Action Festival (Nancy), the Festival de Musiques Innovatrices (St Etienne), Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain (Strasbourg), Galleria Zedosbois (Lisbon), Centre for Contemporary Art (Gdansk), Cave 12 (Geneva), Gallery 21 (Tokyo), Auckland Art Gallery and DNK/Gaudeamus Music Week (Amsterdam). She is a regular performer at festivals around Australia, including What is Music, Liquid Architecture, NowNOW, OFF and the Melbourne International Arts Festival.

Natasha has performed with musicians such as Amanda Stewart, Jerome Noetinger, Robin Fox, Anthony Pateras, Jim Denley, Louise Curham, Vanessa Tomlinson, Clayton Thomas, Erkki Veltheim and Annette Krebs. 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 also premiered and recorded many new works, performing on several releases for John Zorn’s Tzadik Composer Series.

In 2009 Natasha was invited to form the new French-Australian quintet Thymolphthalein. Lead by Anthony Pateras, this group was the result of that year’s annual Südwestrundfunk New Jazz Meeting. In 2010 Thymolphthalein returns to Europe for the festival Music Unlimited 24 in Austria.

Natasha has worked as a composer and sound designer for the Sydney Theatre Company (The Year of Magical Thinking dir. Cate Blanchett), the de Quincey Co (The Stirring dir. Tess de Quincey), Finucane and Smith (The Flood dir. Laurence Strangio) Branch Theatre Co (Aviary dir. Melanie Beddie) and Peter Fraser (Tarkovsky’s Horse). Her installations and sound art have been exhibited at Carriageworks, Melbourne International Arts Festival, Bus Gallery and MONA.

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 Batille’s concept of the formless. She also holds a Post-graduate Performance Diploma from the Amsterdam Conservatorium and a B.Mus (honours in performance) from Melbourne University.

In 2010 Natasha has had a residency at the Montalvo Arts Centre in California and received two commissions. That is: That not is is being written for Judith Hamann and the Bionic Ear Institute has commissioned a work for people with cochlear implants. The cello work will be premiered at the Melbourne Recital Centre in September and subsequently recorded for release by ABC Classics. The Bionic Ear concert will be held at the Arts Centre in 2011. Natasha is currently teaching Performance in the School of Art at RMIT University.