About

Natasha Anderson is an Australian composer, musician and installation artist. She makes instrumental, audiovisual and acousmatic works in a variety of forms; from solo performance and notated scores, to installation and multichannel diffusion. A primary interest lies in creating idiosyncratic, preternatural electronic sounds from acoustic sources, and exploring the relationship between these and their live physical source in composition.

Natasha has been commissioned by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, ICE: International Contemporary Ensemble (New York), Ensemble Adapter (Berlin), Ensemble Phoenix (Basel), Sacrum Profanum Festival (Krakow), the Bionics Institute (Melbourne) and Ensemble Offspring (Sydney). In 2019 her work ‘Cleave’ was premiered at the 2019 Sydney Festival, with subsequent performances at Roulette (New York) and Radialsystem (Berlin, for the opening concert of Berlin’s Month of Contemporary Music festival). Natasha has made radio works for the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Commission), and installations for Liquid Architecture, Linden Gallery and NCCA (Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Darwin). Her work has been performed at The Pompidou Centre Paris, LSO St Lukes London, Carriageworks Sydney, Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain Stuttgart, and in Belguim at Maison Folie (2015 European Capital of Culture).

SWR (Südwestrundfunk), the ABC, and Radio Swiss have all broadcast her music and her playing appears on the Tzadik, Ipecac, Editions Mego, Immediata and Cajid Media labels. Solo commissions include pieces for Jessica Aszodi, Brett Dean, Aviva Endean, Judith Hamann, and Vanessa Tomlinson. As a founding member of the quintet Thymolphthalein, she played numerous European festivals, including Musique Action, Festival Météo, Festival de Musiques Innovatrices (France), Alternativa (Czechia), Unlimited Festival (Austria), Südwestrundfunk New Jazz Meeting (Germany), as well as the Melbourne International and Jazz Festivals.

Natasha worked with Cate Blanchett on STC’s Year Of Magical Thinking with Robin Nevin (STC, 2009) and her collaboration with sound poet Amanda Stewart and electro-acoustic composer Jérôme Noetinger was the ABC’s 2008 entry for the International Rostrum of Composers. Awarded residencies include the Peggy Glanville-Hicks (2016), and Montalvo Arts Centre (2010, USA).