This research is an exploration and development of the self-defined instrument concept "pneumatic postinstruments, which can act as independent beings on a stage and be put in connection with the body. These are specially designed air pressure-based mechanical instruments which, in a hybrid appearance, are both the instrument and what plays and moves it. The research is grounded in a vision of different vocalities and bodies, living and non-living, breathing together in a heterogeneous musical world.
The vision draws its inspiration from Queer theory, new materiality, interdisciplinary climate research, pyropolitics, Cli-Fi (climate-fiction), Russian cosmism, Chaos Magic and mysticism.
In the pneumatic post-instrument, the air's juxtaposed and various qualities such as volatile, chaotic, concentrated, powerful, diffuse and non-visible energy will be signified. The air is here, but also as a void. It can almost be described as a negation of itself and lives in the gap between "identity" and "non-identity".
Through the deconstruction of old instruments, textures, and bodies, Barratt-Due will use pneumatic mechanics to reflect on the energy form of air. Pneumatic mechanics are systems that uses air pressure. Fans and electromagnetic valves, scanners, sensors, as well as voices and bodies, will be part of the instrumental, technological, and performative ways to create new vocal and pneumatic music. The result will be performed by Barratt-Due alone and in collaboration with other artists.
The result will include instruments, performances, concerts, performative installations with associated performance practices and a reflects the practice, the art and the theory in which it is grounded.
Camilla Vatne Barratt-Due is a sound artist and musician exploring performance, installation and design of new instruments. She builds altered mechanical systems and develops her own performance practices, often with the use of live-coding and other DIY electronics.
Her work has been shown in places such as the Akademie der Künste. HAU, Stamsund Theater Festival, Black Box Theatre, Bergen Festivals, Piksel, and Insomnia.
She collaborates with different sound artist and currently working in duo-constallations with sound artists Lukas Grundmann, Julia Giertz and Hanne Skjelbred.
She is frequently composing for dance and theatre productions and collaborating with artists such as Ingri Fiksdal, Eirik Fauske, Espen Klouman Høiner, Meg Stuart and Rosalind Goldberg. In 2021 she was part of the program SHAPE, a platform for artists within electronic music in Europe - with her electronica project Canilla and released her debut album You always wanted more in life, but now you don't have the appetite published on Street Pulse Records.
Camilla is educated in classical accordion from the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen (BA), and in sound art (MA) from the Universität der Künste in Berlin.