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Natasha Barrett - PRESENCE / N​Æ​RV​Æ​R (extract)

from Echoes and Reflections by 9 Artists for Acoustic Atlas

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Throbbing of the cruise ships in the habour
Other harbour and construction site sounds
Resonances from the boats and city echoing around the fortress
Boat horns
The town hall bells (hour strikes as well as tunes).
Birds, dry leaves, adults and children, rain
Running over the cobble stones
The bi-annual air-raid siren test

Fragment from an outdoor, site-specific sound installation composed and produced by Natasha Barrett. Location: Outside the Resistance Museum, Akershus Fortress, Oslo.

About the work:
What if we make the background foreground? What if the sounds of the past resonate through the present? What if the hidden details, the disguised features, the traces and the artefacts, break out of the everyday noise we tend to ignore and tell a story of space, place and presence? PRESENCE / NÆRVÆR is an outdoor, site-specific sound-art installation that explores the answers to these questions. It reveals the sound treasures in and around Akershus fortress (Oslo) by resonating them through a hyper-enhanced version of 'the real', hovering just above the existing background sound. The public is invited to experience this revealed sound space and their own presence within it.

The work is made using the latest in environmental sound analysis technology and 3D outdoor sound projection. High-resolution spatial sound recordings, including 3D impulse responses made in and around the installation space, are analysed and processed in musical ways. These materials are then played back into the space to resonate with the present, while alluding to the past and future.

PRESENCE / NÆRVÆR is part of the Reconfiguring the Landscape artistic research project based at the Norwegian Academy for Music and funded by the Norwegian Artistic Research Programme / DIKU. The research investigates how 3D electroacoustic composition and sound art can evoke and provoke new awareness of our outdoor environments.

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from Echoes and Reflections, released December 19, 2022

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