Meet the Artist series features a chat with Natacha Diels, one of the FETA Prize in Sound Art 2019 judges.
Meet the Artist series continues! This Friday, we will feature a chat with one of the FETA Prize in Sound Art 2019 judges Natacha Diels moderated by Juraj Kojš.
FETA Foundation invites you to Meet the Artist, the series of online events dedicated to some of the most talented contemporary sound artists.
On Friday, September 2, at 7-8 pm EST on Zoom, we introduce you to NATACHA DIELS, discussing her creations and the world of sound art.
Join us and ask questions. Discover and engage!
Get your ticket here:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/meet-the-artist-natacha-diels-tickets-410533014297
About Natacha Diels:
Natacha Diels’ work combines choreographed movement, improvisation, video, instrumental practice, and cynical play to create worlds of curiosity and unease. Recent work includes Papillon and the Dancing Cranes, for construction cranes and giant butterfly (Borealis Festival 2018); and forthcoming is a 6-part TV-style miniseries with the JACK quartet (TimeSpans Festival 2020) and a collaborative work for shadowed audience with Ensemble Pamplemousse (Darmstadt 2020). With a focus on collage, collaboration, and the ritual of life as art, Natacha’s compositions have been described as “a fairy tale for a fractured world” (Music We Care About) and “the liveliest music of the evening” (LA Review of Books).
Natacha is a founding member of the composer/performer collective Ensemble Pamplemousse (est. 2003). Pamplemousse specializes in unique aspects of new music composition, from complex virtuosic instrumental performance to experimental theatre to electronic and robotic performance.
Notable commissions include those from Borealis Festival for the aforementioned crane opera; the Fromm Foundation for an upcoming work for Talea Ensemble (2021); Nadar Ensemble for Darmstadt International Summer Institute [performed installation: I Love Myself Fully and Unconditionally] (2018); the Los Angeles Philharmonic for the green Umbrella Series [Laughing to Forget] (2018); and Deustchland Radio Kultur in Berlin for Ensemble Adapter [Sad Music for Lonely People] (2019). Other major activities include being chosen as artist-in-residence for Harvestworks in partnership with MATA festival (summer 2019) and a release by Ensemble Pamplemousse (Lost at Sea, TAK Editions 2019). Natacha’s work has been performed globally by Ensemble Adapter, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Nadar Ensemble, hand werk, Ensemble Decoder, TAK Ensemble, Quatuor Impact, JACK Quartet; and soloists Jay Campbell, Laura Cocks, Samuel Favre, Ross Karre, Rane Moore, and Charlotte Mundy, among others. She has created several short films and music videos which have been screened in Denmark, NYC, Chicago, Budapest, and Hungary.
Natacha holds degrees in performance, digital media, and composition from New York University and Columbia University. She taught composition and computer music at UC San Diego, and began teaching at the University of Pennsylvania in Fall 2020.
More about Natacha Diels: http://natachadiels.com
Feta Foundation: https://www.fetafoundation.com/
FETA Prize in Sound Art Archive: https://fetafoundation.org/feta-sound-prize-virtual-archives/
The FETA Prize in Sound Art was established in 2013 to promote a broad range of contemporary American sound and installation artists. This page serves as a compendium of winners, finalists, and judges that represent a wonderfully diverse collection of contemporary sound art.