Resonant Transcend

As a composer, Natasha Barrett (b . 1972) is primarily interested in new technology and experimental approach to sound in a broad range of contemporary music, including concert works, public space sound-art installations, and interactive multimedia music. She is renowned internationally for her electroacoustic and acousmatic music, and use of the 3D sound technology in composition. Her work is commissioned and performed throughout the world and has received over twenty international awards including the Nordic Council Music Prize, the Giga-Hertz Award (Germany), five first prizes and the Euphonie D’Or in the Bourges International Electroacoustic Music Awards (France), two first prizes in the International Rostrum for Electroacoustic Music and, most recently, the Thomas Seelig Fixed Media Award for 2023. She works together with performers, visual artists, architects, and scientists and is also active in performance, education, and research.

Composer and sound artist Mantautas Krukauska s (b. 1980) is the Associate Professor at the Department of Composition of the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre where he is also a co-founder and head, since 2016, of the Music Innovation Studies Centre, the academic lab for studies, art, and research. The Centre focuses on music technology, education, interactive arts, and immersive media.

Apart from his chamber and electronic pieces, he has written music for theatre and dance productions and is known for his sound art work. His compositions have been performed in Lithuania, Austria, Germany, France, Canada, USA, and elsewhere. As an artist, he takes part in performances of electronic music and works as a music producer and arranger.

He has been actively involved in diverse activities, such as leading and managing international artistic, research, and educational programmes. His interests span interdisciplinarity, creativity, music and media technologies, and a synergy of different aesthetic and cultural approaches.

Anders Tveit (b. 1977) is known mostly for his electroacoustic compositions, improvisations, and sound installations. His musical expression is based on the self-developed software for real-time sound processing and spatial sound.

“In my work, I am constantly interested in new approaches to the use of technology,” he says. “This is true speaking both of my composition process and the performance.” Holistic thinking about the work and the result is key, he adds. “This often means that I like to blur the differences between a developer, a performer, and a composer in my work. I find it really challenging and exciting.”

Anders Tveit is the Associate Professor at the Norwegian Academy of Music and the producer and chairman of nyMusikk Vestfold.