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Living with urban noise: our outdoor environment and 3D sound

By 2050 over two-thirds of the world's population will reside in urban areas: 7 billion people contributing to, and needing to live with, urban noise. This article discusses some key moments in my work with 3D site-specific sound installations, designed to engage listening in the urban soundscape by revealing interesting features hidden from everyday experience.

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Natasha Barrett
PublishedJanuary 24, 2024
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Living with urban noise: our outdoor environment and 3D sound

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Oslo habour, 19:40, 16th September 2022

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Natasha Barrett

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Natasha Barrett

Natasha Barrett composes concert works, public space sound-art installations and multimedia interactive music using a broad palette of sounds, new technologies and experimental techniques. She is widely known for her electroacoustic and acousmatic music, and use of 3D sound technology in composition. Her work is commissioned and performed throughout the world and has received over 20 international awards including the Nordic Council Music Prize and most recently the honorary Thomas Seelig Fixed Media Award for 2023. She regularly collaborates with performers, visual artists, architects and scientists, and is active as a performer of live-electronics and spatial audio.

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