Natasha Barrett

"It is my goal to capture and reflect the natural and physical world and address aspects of it that are being destroyed, disguised, or simply disappearing from everyday life."

Natasha Barrett is a composer of electronic and instrumental music. She has composed electroacoustic music, and music for acoustical instruments and live electronics, sound installations, dance, theatre, and animations. She often works with recorded sounds of the world and abstractions of those sounds.

Natasha Barrett's electroacoustic music has been performed throughout the world. She has received awards from Noroit Foundation, Concours Scrime, International Electroacoustic Creation Competition of Ciberart, Ars Electronica, Bourges, Fondazione Luigi Russolo, and commisssions from Institut International de Musique Electroacoustique de Bourges, Oslo Sinfonietta, NICEM (Norwegain section of the ICEM), and International Computer Music Association. Barrett has been guest composer at NoTAM, in Oslo, Norway, and senior lecturer and director of the electroacoustic music studios at the music conservatory in Tromsa.

Barrett currently lives in Norway as a freelance composer and teacher.