Cosmic Bride (NL)

Natalja Chareckaja (Cosmic Bride) is a Rotterdam-based composer, vocalist and producer whose work bridges electronic music, spatial audio and contemporary performance. Blending jazz composition, avant-pop and immersive sound design, she creates live experiences that invite audiences to step inside the music. With a Master’s in New Audiences & Innovative Practice from the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague and a background in jazz composition at Codarts Rotterdam, Natalja is currently affiliated with SANE—Spatial Audio Network Europe—where she continues to research and create in the field of immersive experiences. This autumn she is touring Spatial-Audio-equipped venues and festivals across Europe, presenting her new work Hidden Gem. Her project Cosmic Bride unfolded as a spatial listening experience in Dolby Atmos, combining lush string writing, electronics and voice with custom movement-based controllers. Recent site-specific performances in resonant spaces such as the Laurenskerk (Rotterdam) and Stevenskerk (Nijmegen) treat architecture itself as a co-performer. Natalja’s current artistic research explores more-than-human authorship: drawing inspiration from mycelial networks and other living systems, she investigates how non-human intelligences can become active collaborators in music making. At ADE she shares how these ideas: immersive sound, ecological thinking and cross-disciplinary technology – can expand the future of electronic music and live performance.