Title: OK Fantastic!
Commission: 2019
Completed: 2022
Instrumentation: clarinet (Bb and bass), percussion, keyboard (full), and electronics
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Notes: Written for Matthew Gold, Rane Moore, and Stephen Gosling with Talea Ensemble.

Natacha Diels’ work combines choreographed movement, improvisation, video, instrumental practice, and cynical play to create worlds of curiosity and unease. Recent work includes Papillon and the Dancing Cranes, for construction cranes and giant butterfly (Borealis Festival 2018); and forthcoming is an in-progress TV miniseries with the JACK quartet (episode 1: Beautiful Trouble, July 2019). With a focus on collage, collaboration, and the ritual of life as art, Natacha’s compositions have been described as “a fairy tale for a fractured world” (Music We Care About) and “the liveliest music of the evening” (LA Review of Books). 

Natacha is a founding member of the composer/performer collective Ensemble Pamplemousse (est. 2003). Pamplemousse specializes in unique aspects of new music composition, from complex virtuosic instrumental performance to experimental theatre to electronic and robotic performance. 

She holds degrees in performance, digital media, and composition from New York University and Columbia University. She currently teaches composition and computer music at the University of California, San Diego.