Natalie Hyacinth

Dr Natalie Hyacinth is an academic and artist, creating and thinking about music at the intersection of sound, gender and Black life.

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An image of the inside of a domed house with curved iron ribs onto which white canvas has been tautly wrapped around. Traditional Somali prints on the outside of the canvas are also visible from the inside of the house. We can see the backs of two women facing various colourful small woven structures, and a potted plant, all hanging from the ribs of the house. A microphone and lights are also visible inside the space.

Alternative Technologies: A Just Transition

This workshop series examines technologies and their past, present, and future role in climate justice (and breakdown) and explores what the alternatives could be, through a process of carefully facilitated design thinking

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MyWorld - Strength in Places

Watershed is excited to be a partner in MyWorld, a project led by the University of Bristol that will celebrate the West of England's reputation as an international trailblazer in creative technology and screen-based media.

Natalie is currently a Researcher on the European Research Council funded Sonic Street Technologies project at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her research is intersectional and interdisciplinary, incorporating themes from Cultural Geography, Black Studies, Philosophy and Afrofuturism. As part of her heritage and cultural, spiritual lineage, Natalie’s work emphasises the importance of sharing messages of love and unity through music, continuing the sonic explorations of her Caribbean forebearers by experimenting with new sounds and sonic technologies. Natalie is a founding member of the Black Music and Cultures Research Group London that seeks to centre Black female writings and thought on diaspora Black music and culture and makes and thinks about sonic worlds as part of the Sonic CyberFeminisms Collective. She explores electronic sound making under the name The Black Astral.

In 2023 Natalie was one of the Watershed micro-residents as part of the MyWorld Ideas programme. Natalie spent three months in residence at the Pervasive Media Studio part of a project called STREAM, which is a partnership between UWE, Marshmallow Laser Feast and All Seeing Eye. The projects aims were to investigate and navigate what accessible location-based VR could look like.

Studio Residents