Natasha Pirard
Natasha Pirard is an experimental electronic musician whose sound moves through emotive translation and intuitive play. Her compositions combine analogue synthesis, tape loops, and acoustic instruments such as the violin with voice and field recordings. Small motifs emerge and unfold, returning in ways that trace patterns over time, letting listeners inhabit the evolving textures at their own pace. She pays close attention to the sounds of everyday life and how they carry meaning, whether in subtle environmental detail or broader social contexts.
She studied Musicology at Ghent University, graduating in 2022 after four years in Art Sciences. While trained in classical repertoire, she formed a keen interest in the space between historical music theory and contemporary experimentation, taking inspiration from Steve Reich’s phase shifting, as well as Mica Levi’s varied works, and the lineage of female musicians forging paths outside traditional frameworks as recounted in the documentary film Sisters with Transistors. Her academic background informs how she structures sound and attends to its internal interactions, shaping her careful listening to material as it develops.
At DEEWEE, Pirard translated these ideas into practice. Surrounded by tapes and recorders in the renowned studio owned by Soulwax/2manydjs (David & Stephen Dewaele), and encouraged to trust her creative curiosity, she developed her approach through the brothers' guidance. The result was Dream Cycles (2024), a four-cassette set totaling 120 minutes, in which sounds unfold according to their own internal logic, shifting in her signature tactile and warm atmospheric sound. The project led to performances across Europe, from support shows to festival stages, marking her emergence as a composer and performer.
Her next project, Fernande, Cecile (2025), turns inward. Dedicated to her mother and late grandmother—and the matrilineal in particular—the album draws from memories shaped by early childhood and family transformations, stirred through the effects of Alzheimer’s and the impermanence of recollection. The deeply personal songs emerge from memory and the traces these relationships continue to shape, developing a sonic language that seeks to articulate what words alone cannot convey.
Moreover, she has composed multiple film scores, including a new soundtrack for Pere Portabella’s Cuadecuc, Vampir and a commission for Mirage Films, Belgium.
Natasha Pirard is based in Ghent and works in Brussels. She has performed at Oude Kerk in Amsterdam (2025), Les Nuits Botanique in Brussels (2024), Le Bikini in Toulouse (2024), and Huxley's in Berlin (2024). She has shared the stage with artists such as Soulwax and Ziúr, among many others.
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