Natasha Barrett

Who is Natasha Barrett?

Natasha Barrett is a British composer and performer of electroacoustic art music. Her compositional aesthetics are derived from acousmatic issues, but in addition to acousmatic composition she composes for instruments and live electronics, sound installations, multi-media works and computer music improvisation. She currently lives in Norway.

Natasha Barrett began working seriously with electroacoustic composition during a master's degree in analysis and electroacoustic composition, studying with Jonty Harrison at the University of Birmingham. This study also gave her the opportunity to work with BEAST which has greatly influenced her current work, and lead on to a doctoral degree in composition supervised by Denis Smalley, awarded in 1998 at City University. Both degrees were funded by the Humanities section of the British Academy. In the same year, a grant from Norges forskningsråd enabled her to work as a resident composer at NoTAM in Oslo. She is now a freelance composer, sound-artist and researcher, based in Oslo.