Projects & portfolio
Real World Immersive
During an experimental audio residency at infamous Real World Studios in Box, Natalia together with collaborator - Alison Bown, composed and mixed an 8-minute sound art piece, spatialising genre-breaking self narration piece into a fully immersive production through intricate process of re-recording elements onto 3D microphone techniques and creating a set of natural spatial attributes from the space. Listen to track ‘Bearing space’ in binaural translation from 7.1.4 via APL’s Virtuoso.
Spatial performance
As part of Tikoda’s release of spatial audio plugins and a single ‘Patina’, Natalia performed a spatial composition made in 3rd order of Ambisonics on the multichannel Soundscape system at Dareshack in Bristol. Alongisde the piece built on field recordings, sound design and own productions, Natalia improvised with Soma Lyra-8 synth, spatialised in-situ with Tikoda’s bespoke panning, multichannel reverb and delay system. Get in touch for preview.
Shoezone @ Broadwalk
Natalia in partnership with a fellow sound artist - Chris Littlewood, set up an immersive audio basement at Broadwalk Shopping Centre in Knowle Bristol, in residency for Hypha Studios, and supported by Arts Council England. In the space, they have repurposed old store shelving and images, built a binaural audio chamber and a 6.1 spatial system in a bespoke, public facing listening space. Full 360 experience of the space is in post production (TBC). For preview contact directly
My City, My Voice
In collaboration with We Make Noise Turkiye and Saffron Records through a British Council funded artist development programme 'My City, My Voice', Natalia had a pleasure to work as a guest lecturer and consultant on productions, sharing knowledge and passion for field recording and their importance in sharing our identity through sound with a group of exceptionally talented and creative female musicians. Created tracks include their own recordings and uncover the stories of their ethnicity, identity and relationship with their world environment. During the development stage, and then tour with the artists, which Natalia was part of, she had a chance to experience the rich cultural heritage of Turkey.
SWCP // Women’s Aid
In 2021 Natalia walked 630 miles of South West Coast Path to fundraise for Women’s Aid charity, at the time under increased pressures after the consequences of isolation in lockdown. The 6 weeks journey has been documented with binaural Field Recordings, photography and journey diary (instagram: @micupthehike). Listen to the binaural recordings consolidated into a radio show on Noods Radio. Full release TBC.
Hańba // Disgrace
The track is an expression of expectation towards women: long hair, high heels, motherhood, fulfilling your neighbour's judgement and God's expectation. A women's life is presented as stuck in a passive loop enforced by the society and the politicians. The repeated mantra echoes itself and merges into a crowd, noise, chaos. The quiet weakness becomes the loud speech and strength.
Hear women's voices suffering as a result of abortion ban in Poland and Ireland.
Act Normal
Resident on the independent digital radio station since September 2018 - Noods Radio, delivering a monthly show titled ‘Act Normal’. The show is an opportunity for the artist to dive into introspective, narrative development through radio production, and bring sounds and meanings from all creative directions. The concept is in the works of development into a micro record label.
A sonic window to deserted soundscapes of urban anxiety. Curated by Walya, Act Normal features washed out, ambient soundscapes, tied together with snippets of personal field recordings and found sounds
Waiting Room
Waiting Room is an installation exploring the sonic realm of a conscious mind as it enters the process of the shutting down of the body. Within the illuminated space of the black box, a binaural soundscape takes the listener into locations the dying self must face before its final days and hours; a journey through the alienating space of hospital wards. Installation seeks to open up the dialogue around the subject of death and highlight the importance of social awareness surrounding notions of the self during the end of life process.
There is life, and then there’s silence.
Childhood of Tomorrow
This album contains sounds prepared for a project, inspired by digital paintings by Simon Stalenhag (www.simonstalenhag.se). Compositions include Natalia’s own binaural, field & object recordings made in Poland and UK, pick-up coil recordings in server room, sound design and foley. Embracing the retro-futurist atmosphere of works, it attempts to reccreate the future-past nostalgia, capturing the sounds of post communist Poland suburbia, including early spring echoes of bloc districts in Kraków, Poland.
Originally the tracks were part of an interactive app, that added object animation to the paintings (through implementation in Unity).
