Natasha Pirard is a Belgian experimental electronic musician whose work blends analogue synthesis, tape loops, acoustic instrumentation, and voice into intimate, slowly unfolding compositions. Her music is rooted in attentive listening, small motifs evolve, return, and dissolve, allowing emotional nuance and everyday sonic detail to surface.
With a background in Musicology at Ghent University, she draws from both historical music theory and contemporary experimentation, inspired by figures such as Steve Reich, Mica Levi, and the women featured in Sisters with Transistors.
After developing her practice within DEEWEE, the studio run by Soulwax/2manydjs, Pirard released Dream Cycles(2024), a four-cassette project built from tactile, warm, slowly shifting sound worlds. This body of work set the foundation for her new album, Fernande, Cécile (2025), which turns inward and explores matrilineal memory, family transformation, and the fragility of recollection. Dedicated to her mother and late grandmother, the album builds a sonic language that expresses emotional textures that words cannot hold, shaping one of her most personal and resonant works to date.
FACTS
1. I really love knitting and reading the newspaper on a Saturday morning;
2. If you have the possibilty to go to the mountains on your own at least once in your life: go;
3. Don’t forget to tell your friends you love them.
1. What is the biggest inspiration for your music?
Spending time with friends and family, and collaborating with other artists and musicians. And besides that: being present in nature, especially mountains.
2. How and when did you get into making music?
It was after a workshop I organized at the DEEWEE studio for the students of the Art Science department from the University of Ghent that the audio engineer, Pim, asked me if I could come by the studio again. That’s when Stephen and David asked me if I would like to spend some time in the studio to see what would happen. I never played music before, so I was incredibly nervous. But I loved it from the first second.
3. What are 5 of your favourite albums of all time?
In no particular order and popping in my head while writing this: Monos (Original Soundtrack) – Mica Levi // Jewelry – Micachu & The Shapes // A I A: Alien Observer – Grouper // Capacity – Big Thief // Suite For Max Brown – Jeff Parker
4. What do you associate with Berlin?
My very first time to Berlin was when I was 17 with a group of students, which later became close friends, realizing that my world is much bigger than I thought back then. It’s a place where no one needs to pretend.
5. What’s your favourite place in your town?
The Sunday flower market on a cold but sunny autumn or spring day.
6. If there was no music in the world, what would you do instead?
I’d probably be knitting 10 hours a day in a mountain cabin, 7/7.
7. What was the last record/music you bought or listen?
Hydroplane’s new record ‘A Place in My Memory Is All I Have To Claim’.
8. Who would you most like to collaborate with?
I’ve been looking into collaborating with several artists during the coming months and I’m incredibly excited about those possibilities. 🙂
9. What was your best gig (as performer or spectator)?
The performance I went to and enjoyed the most was Alessandro Cortini at Bozar Brussels in 2019.
10. How important is technology to your creative process?
Quite important, but not necessary. Important, because without certain innovations it would be much more complicated to perform live with tape machines, but that difficult that it becomes impossible. I like the combination of analog instruments and some effect pedals or small digital synthesizers, and to use my computer mostly as a digital recording device.
11. What can we expect from your concert at Kiezsalon in Berlin?
I’d like to bring some tracks of my most recent album, but also some new pieces and experiments. 🙂
