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Ultima 2026 / Natasha Barrett · Kelman Duran / Saddled With

2026-09-18
22:00:00 - 01:00:00
Trekanten, Oslo

Natasha Barrett builds audiovisual architectures live and lets them collapse. Kelman Duran, who has produced for Beyoncé, closes the night with dembow slowed dark and heavy. Natasha Barrett builds audiovisual architectures live and lets them collapse. Kelman Duran, who has produced for Beyoncé, closes the night with dembow slowed dark and heavy. What if something curiously beautiful survives? Constructions of Collapse and Desire by Natasha Barrett begins from a feeling of curiosity and hope in the face of a precarious world. Real locations– Oslo’s Barcode district, a rural train station, a snow-covered forest path–are projected into the space and transformed into dreamlike audiovisual architectures, pushed towards extremes of purity and energy. Barrett scanned the places she chose as source material using 3D LiDAR and ambisonic recordings. Live on stage, she constructs lego-like structures, feeding the real-time image into the evolving audiovisual environment. Then the fragile construction is blown apart, and forces beyond human control take over. Kelman Duran arrives from a different vantage point. Rooted in Dominican and Afro-Caribbean musical traditions, his music draws on Caribbean riddims and dembow: syncopated patterns of bass and bodily pulse that he stretches and darkens into something atmospheric, saddled with emotion. The beat slows, the bass grows heavy, the edges blur. The brutalist presence of Trekanten holds it all: Barrett’s image and sound structures, and Duran’s nocturnal drive. Programme 21:00 Doors open 22:00–22:45 Natasha Barrett Constructions of Collapse and Desire (2025) For electronics, 3D sound and real-time video. 23:30–01:00 Kelman Duran Solo electronic set