007. Natacha Diels

Natacha Diels is a composer and performer whose work combines choreographed movement, improvisation, video, instrumental practice, and cynical play to create worlds of curiosity and unease. With a focus on collage, collaboration, and the ritual of life as art, her compositions have been described as “a fairy tale for a fractured world” (Music We Care About). She is a member of the composer/performer collective Ensemble Pamplemousse and the performance duo On Structure, and she teaches composition and computer music at the University of California, San Diego. In this episode, Laura Cocks and Marina Kifferstein of TAK talk to Natacha about “The Colors Don’t Match,” written for TAK and featured on their recent album, Oor. To stream and purchase Oor: http://takensemble.bandcamp.com More about Natacha Diels’ music: http://natachadiels.ccom Ensemble Pamplemousse’s quadruple album Lost at Sea: https://pamplemoussies.bandcamp.com/ Music video for The Colors Don’t Match: https://youtu.be/cpfwPgiJ7GY