NATAAS/ was invited to have a sound performance + conversation about “sound as a main dimension in the creation and experiences of place and community” at the Mirage film festival at Vega in Oslo. The conversation was with Christian Pagh, Chief Curator Oslo Architecture Triennale 2022 and the award-winning film sound designer Javier Umpierrezom. This took place on 13 October 2023 at Vega.
MIRAGE is the new international film festival in Oslo for “the art of the real”. Dedicated to artistic films with highly cinematic ambitions. A festival that celebrates the craft of filmmaking and the art of the non-fiction film.
Sound performance – Gisle Nataas.
Friday, 13th October 2023, time: 18.00, at Vega, Salongen.
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I will perform a new sound work composed of sounds from three different projects by architect Enric Miralles from Barcelona. This is a premiere for an upcoming installation at the Fundació Enric Miralles, which will open in November.
Briefly about the pieces: “The sound performance consists of field recordings from three selected Miralles Tagliabue projects: Igualada Cemetery, Mercat Santa Catarina and the iron sculpture named Heaven. The projects represent three different scales, concepts, context, space and material – in some ways its represent architecture from life, city, through landscape to death”.
Nataas, an architect and sound artist, bridges the visual and the aural, offering a fresh perspective on how we perceive and interact with our surroundings. This unique fusion of architecture and sound promises an immersive and groundbreaking artistic encounter.
“You attach deep memories to the sound of your surroundings,” says architect Gisle Nataas.
“Architecture as an instrument” is about using architecture and surroundings as instruments.
“By becoming aware of sound, we can become aware of architecture, materials and surroundings. We can look at our everyday surroundings with new eyes ”.
Gisle Nataas – architect and sound artist Born in Bergen and lives in Oslo. Graduate architect from Bergen School of Architecture and Royal Danish Academy – Architecture – in Copenhagen. Works with architecture and the sound of architecture. As a sound artist, Nataas works with field recordings from architecture, live performances and sound installations. Field recordings are mixed, processed and transformed into new musical and spatial experiences. Nataas runs the project “Architecture as an instrument” in the national programme Den Kulturelle Skolesekken, a collaborative project between the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Education and Research.
Nataas’ performance will follow a talk with Javier Umpierrez, sound designer of EAMI and director and chief curator of the Oslo Architecture Triennale Christian Pagh.
Link: www.mirage.no/experiences/sound-performance-gisle-nataas
Artist talk
“Sound, Places and Communities” – Gisle Nataas | Javier Umpierrez | Christian Pagh
Friday, 13th October 2023, time: 18.30, at Vega, Salongen.
Following the sound performance Architect and Sound Artist Gisle Nataas sits together with Christian Pagh, Chief Curator Oslo Architecture Triennale 2022, and star Sound Designer of EAMI Javier Umpierrez in a conversation moderated by Racha Helen Larsen, Programme Director of MIRAGE, to explore the influence of sound as a main dimension in the creation and experiences of place and community. This conversation is continuing a dialogue initiated with the performance on and about living in the city that Gisle Nataas performed at thew closing ceremony of the Oslo Architecture Triennale 2022 “Mission Neighbourhood: (Re)forming communities”.
Link: www.mirage.no/talk/sound-architecture-gisle-nataas
