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Wednesday 15 november 2017

Multidisciplinary artist Natusha Croes:
‘You need to believe in yourself and in your processes

By Luis Villegas

ORANJESTAD- Natusha always been a playground
Croes is a poet, musician for experiments. I would
and audiovisual artist. She like to see my project as an
will present her interactive injection of something new
art coming Friday at Aru- here and in other places.”
ba’s Cas di Cultura. You
are most welcome to get What would be your next
inspired by the talented step as an artist?
artist. During an interview “Well, I will definitely con-
with Bon Dia/Aruba Today tinue with music. I would
she talks about her art and like to make a statement
inspiration. that in this way you can
also create music and
Tell us about your art that experimental music is
“Well, I combine vari- a good thing. Maybe one
ous forms of art and bring may think that poetry com-
them together in a project. bined with visuals is not mu-
The main focus of my art sic, but I do see the musical
is ‘performance art’, but I part in that. For sure when
got my degree actually in organic sounds are added
audiovisual art at the Riet- and video mapping is in-
veld Academy in the Neth- cluded.” She will therefore
erlands. Mostly I work on continue to express her
and she laughs about that, creativity with visual and
Intense Music but apparently public is re- music experiments.
One of the places she visit- questing this.
ed was Berlin and to her this Tactus can be seen from
is one of the best feeding It would be easier for her this Friday on in Cas di Cul-
grounds for creative minds. to stay and have her music tura. There are 2 perfor-
“There is a lot of experimen- on the Berlin platform, but mances: at 6 and 8 pm.
tal music there like ‘drone’ the revolutionist inside her Please check Facebook
and ‘glitch’. We are not strives to bring something Cas di Cultura for more in-
so used to that here, but different here in Aruba. formation on tickets and
at the same time this gives “Berlin has a complete dif- availability. You may also
us the space to grow.” Her ferent historical context in call the artist directly at +
type of music feels intense which it proved to have 297 562 3217.q

live experiences together bush transmits. To com-
with visual cinematic ele- pose the music I use loop
ments. My project now en- stations and special soft-
hances a lot of research ware on my laptop that
and I have been working registers and adapts the
on it for 3 years now. It is sound that I contract from
called: Tactus. It is about the bushes.”
creating music with the
use of organic elements or Her goal with this project
environment, for example is not only the creation of
bushes.” music through bushes, but
also to develop new meth-
Natusha uses several tech- ods to make music. She
nologies, analog and digi- likes to develop this con-
tal, that convert the bush cept as broad as possible
into an instrument. “I use and she already works to-
various microphones and gether with several artists
sensors that capture the abroad.
lowest vibrations that the