TEN BULLETS THOUGH ONE HOLE (2018), Laure M. Hiendl
“On the proximity of heteromasculine pornographic language and weapon industry propaganda, specifically bullet advertisements from various Western gun manufacturers”
Voice 1: Viktoriia Vitrenko
Voice 2: Natasha López
Awards “Kompositionspreis der Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart 2020”
Performed at ECLAT Festival, 4.02.2021
(Musik der Jahrhunderte e. V.)
AI LIMITI DELLE SOGLIE: CON MOTO TRASVERSALE (2020), Silvia Rosani
For soprano, violoncello, flute, composer and hybrid electroacoustic instruments (feedback on metal panels and bass flute, motors)
Laudation for the concession of the human rights award to Maria Kalesnikava by the “Gerhart and Renate Baum Foundation”
Performed at ECLAT Festival,
7.02.2021 THEATERHAUS, Stuttgart
“We dedicated this concert to our flutist and friend Maria Kalesnikava and through art we support her release as well as the implementation of democracy for Belarusian people” TRIO vis-à-vis
A production of: ECLAT Festival, Musik der Jahrhunderte
Financed by: “Gerhart und Renate Baum Stiftung” and Stiftung Landesbank Baden-Württemberg
WENIGE SILBEN VOM GLÜCK (2015), Charlotte Seither
Performer and voice: Natasha López
Composer: Charlotte Seither
Concept, video documentation and edition: Remmy Canedo
A production of: Stuttgarter Kollektiv für Aktuelle Musik (S-K-A-M e. V.) Funded and supported by: Stadt Stuttgart
noVOICE – noBODY (2019)
A music and dance performance for 3 dancers and 3 musicians about power and freedom
“If there are power relations that run through the entire social field, it is because there is freedom everywhere (…). In actual many cases, the power relations are so firmly established that they are permanently asymmetrical and the scope for freedom is extremely limited.” (M. Foucault)
Premiere: 25.07.2019, Musik der Jahrhunderte, Theaterhaus (Stuttgart, Germany)
Composition/ Live electronics/ Video:
Remmy Canedo
Artistic direction/ Choreography: Alexandra Mahnke
Concept & Project management/ Production: Natasha López
Yahi Nestor Gahé: DANCE
Maria Kalesnikava: FLUTE
Natasha López: VOICE
Alexandra Mahnke: DANCE
Hugo Rannou: VIOLONCELLO
Marija Skender: DANCE
Video documentation: Nikola Kaloyanov
Video edition: Remmy Canedo
Text excerpts from: Michel Foucault, “Macht und Freiheit”; Michel Foucault, “Care of the Self” and “The will to freedom”, of “Critique and Ethics”
A production of: InterAKT Initiative e. V.
Funded by: Stadt Stuttgart, LBBW-Stiftung and S-K-A-M e. V.
With the kind support of Musik der Jahrhunderte Stuttgart e. V., GEDOK Stuttgart and DUNDU.
AMNIOSIS (2017), Remmy Canedo
Song cycle for voice, violin, biofeedback, live electronics & video
Music & programming: Remmy Canedo
Voice, Lyrics and concept: Natasha López
AMNIOSIS is a pop/dance song cycle with music and video installation by Remmy Canedo and lyrics by Natasha López. The concept was developed by the artist Natasha López and is inspired by the function of the amniotic fluid (from the Greek amnios = transparent and thin membrane that envelops the fetus during pregnancy). Just as the amniotic fluid protects the fetus (fragile and vulnerable) from external trauma, the skin covers the internal organs of the body in relation to reality. How does the inside sound on the outside and vice versa? How fragile is the inside in relation to the outside and vice versa? How do you feel the outside world inside? Sensors are used in this piece: electrocardiogram (EKG) for corrected heart and pulse rate and electromyography (EMG) for muscle tension and detectors for limb activity to create organic electronic music, as well as to bring the history of the inside out and to show where the two worlds interact with each other. The play is an experiment regarding the relationship between medicine and art, between machines and people. Text, space, time, body and media interact to create an audiovisual experience.
This work was a cooperation between Remmy Canedo and Natasha López, who wrote the texts for this song cycle. The texts are a contemplation of the inner sounds of the body mixed with emotional states, which establish a dramaturgy between physical spaces and the possibility to represent them with sonification and visualization techniques. In this sense, her electro-physical impulses are used to generate an audiovisual work that experiments with the commonplaces of pop/dance music, using the heartbeat and limbs muscles to control sounds and video. This enhances the perception of the inherent irregularity of human body, adding temporal inaccuracy in opposition to the perfect beats of modern sequencers: an attempt to create an organic electronic music
UMLAUT (2017), Huihui Cheng
Violin & voice: Natasha López
Text and voice in the tape: Jörg Zemmler
This piece could be played by a soprano who also plays violin, a violinist who could also sing or a duo, voice and violin.
The text is about a love story, in which the performer sings and plays the violin simultaneously. The violin symbolises her lover. Their love story is told by means of the relation between the violin and the singer, who is struggling with the violin, since they do not seem to have the same feelings, nor do they agree with them. They are muted and nullified, as an “Umlaut”. Two lovers who can not love in the same direction, even though they try. They are alone, as each dot of the “Umlaut”. Sometimes the singer’s voice and the violin sound halfway, as if the performer was muted by a loudspeaker, since her love is misunderstood and therefore her voice almost hushed.
The relationship between them is also reflected by the look of the performer’s eyes, which should focus sometimes on the violin (communicating with her lover), at other times on the front (sharing her love story with the audience)
UNICORN (2012), Malte Giesen
A micro-opera for 4 voices, Ensemble and Live-Electronics
From chatbots generated texts (Adaptation: Bernd Schmitt)
Libretto/ Regie, Bernd Schmitt
Conductor, Christof M Löser
Dara, Alessia Hyunkyung Park
Aishe, Natasha López
Chris, Michael Seifferth
Brad, Matías Bocchio
12, 13 and 14 October 2012
Wilhelmspalais, Stuttgart (GERMANY)