Natalia Beylis

Natalia Beylis' music revolves somewhere between sonic story-teller and multi-instrumental explorer. She has released over 40 albums between solo works and collaborations and has appeared on numerous compilations. Based in rural Ireland, her work parallels the lines of her surroundings: creaking trees, farm animals, vocal samples taken from conversations with her neighbours, the northwesterly breeze, creatures rusting in the hedgerows, strange noises from the bog at dusk and rainfall. Lots and lots of rainfall. Her solo compositions and improvisations are a mix of garbled tape collage recordings, manipulated sounds of seemingly mundane objects, eerie mandola mantras and dreamscape piano voyages. While she regularly records on a variety of traditional instruments, she is just as likely to use non-musical sound sources within her compositions. For example, she recently released an album using just the sounds created by a domestic Singer sewing machine. Natalia regularly collaborates with cellist Eimear Reidy, percussionist Willie Stewart and is a member of the group BB84. She also creates pieces for ensembles. Her latest composition, 'Around Here, The Birds Plant The Trees' uses conkers both as a sonic source and as a visual conducting aid to direct the players.

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The In-Between: Sounds for Leaving and Entering a Room

Natalia Beylis has created a series of sound collages that mark the nuanced choreographies of arrival, pause, and departure. Each collage is crafted to fit precisely within the intervals before, between, and after the conference sessions, subtly framing the audience’s movement into and out of the auditorium. In this interstitial space between discourse and stillness, the work invites listeners to consider the sonic textures of arrival and departure — not as background, but as part of the choreography of convening. Listeners are invited to linger, to arrive early and leave late, to dwell in the music and gathered sounds that Natalia has woven together from her own compositions and the sonic fragments gathered from her surroundings.