Natasha Barrett (composer)

Natasha Barrett (March 1972, Norwich, England) is a British contemporary music composer specialising in electroacoustic art music. Her compositional aesthetics are derived from acousmatic issues. In addition to acousmatic concert music, she composes for instruments, live electronics, sound installations, multi-media works including digital video art, real-time computer music improvisation, has made soundscapes for exhibitions, and music for contemporary dance and theater. Her work has been influenced by spatialisation as a musical parameter, and the projection of 3-D sound-fields. Since 2020, she has expanded her repertoire to include works for large orchestra and electronics, as well as interactive real-time computer graphics. She currently lives in Norway. Natasha Barrett began her studies in electroacoustic music while completing a master’s degree in analysis and composition under the guidance of Jonty Harrison at the University of Birmingham (UK). This study also gave her the opportunity to work with BEAST (Birmingham ElectroAcoustic Sound Theatre) which influenced her later work, and lead on to a doctoral degree in composition supervised by Denis Smalley, awarded in 1998 at Ci