PERFORMANCE SOLO


Natasha Anderson

Image: Marion Innocenzi

Description

Anderson’s performances on contrabass recorder and electronics exploit the organic immediacy of a tailored sensor environment. Precise and dynamic gestures emerge from within a diverse palette of timbres. Extreme frequencies, digital and acoustic sound, abject and computer-processed gestures are all rapidly juxtaposed, creating for the listener multiple and conflicting points of focus. The sources of these sounds, images and gestures — whether electronic, instrumental or bodily — become tangled and confused.


"...electro acoustic strangeness that is as beguiling as it is threatening. I’ve never heard anything like it." The Wire

"...an intriguing brutality juxtaposed with fragility making her one of the most satisfying acts (conceptually and sonically) of the festival.” RealTime

"…a riveting 15 minutes” The Age


Selected Performances

Australia & New Zealand
Melbourne Melbourne International Arts Festival, Liquid Architecture 9 & 3; National Festival of Sound Art, What is Music? [04/, MIBEM: Melbourne International Biennale of Experimental Music, Bus Art Gallery, Maximum Arousal, Stutter, ABC Iwaki Auditorium Sydney The NowNOW, Liquid Architecture 8 & 9; National Festival of Sound Art Brisbane OFF Film Festival, Clocked Out Productions, Elision Auckland Auckland Art Gallery, Alt. Music Festival, Kenneth Myers Centre Wellington Bomb the Space Festival

Europe

France: Paris Centre Pompidou, Instants Chavires, Section Amour Nancy Musique Action Festival Nantes Cable Lille La Malterie, Jazz en Nord Festival Strasbourg Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain St Etienne Festival Musique Innovatrices Marseilles Grim Belgium: Ghent Logos Germany: Berlin Ausland, KuLe, Straulau Italy: Fruili Hybrida Macedonia: Skopje Skopje Summer Festival Poland: Gdansk Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art Poznan Dragon Portugal: Lisbon Galleria Zedosbois Switzerland: Geneva Cave 12, de l’Ilôt13 Zurich WIM The Netherlands: Amsterdam DNK, Kraakgeluiden, Ijsbreker

Japan

Tokyo Gallery 21 Matsue Shimane Marine Gate