Welcome to Coming Home to your Creative Self - Inspired Interviews with Change Makers and Magic Seekers that I love and find Inspiring. I see the Creative Self as that part of each of us that is Soul-led and Co-creating with life - when we listen to its callings we find our way home to an inner sense of belonging.
This episode is made possible through Art Nexus Studios in Madjandji/ Babinda and the Tapestry of Yarns Project.
In this episode we explore Natalia’s journey of being a musician, an artist, and an intuitive, and how her life path had taken her all around the world, and right back home to herself. In her explorations, Natalia has also tapped into the the resonance of nature including playing the music of plants and trees.
“Sitting under the trees is one of the strongest ways that we can come home.” - Natalia Mann
Natalia Lagi'itaua Mann is a harpist and resonance artist. Her work is contemporary and environmental, always questioning: “If all the world is vibration... “, using music to explore the nature of reality. At the crossroads of classical music, free jazz, indigenous and contemporary arts, Mann is regularly commissioned to create and perform new music in collaboration with leading choreographers, artists and community groups.
Her personal oeuvre follows a series of research residencies: New work Sea Change is a large collaborative work about changing sea levels. The Blue Pen books intuit wisdom from the Pleiadian star system. The Sonic Earth learns the musical resonance of trees and plants. The Art of Listening plays art as score. Synaesthetic 'light scores’ as film, photography and installation are an extension of Mann’s musical practice, and have been exhibited in Australia, New Zealand, New Caledonia, Turkey and Barbados.
Natalia has toured internationally performing her original music for harp; and has played extensively with symphony orchestras, world, pop, jazz and experimental art music. Her albums Pasif.ist (2011) and Utterance (2017) can be found on Rattle.co.nz.
At home Natalia plays for the children’s show Bulkaway Muruku (Yarning Together), and therapeutic music at Cairns Hospital. She is a harp teacher and community mentor for the Far North Queensland Harp Connection.
Born in Wellington, Aotearoa to Samoan and Australian parents, Natalia has lived in Los Angeles, Melbourne, Istanbul and now resides in Yidinji Country with her partner Victor Steffensen and extended family, descendants of the Takalaka people of North Queensland area.
Show Notes & Links:
https://www.facebook.com/natalia.l.mann
https://www.facebook.com/NataliaMannArts/
instagram: @natalia.mann
Intro and Outro Music - Postcards by Jeremiah Johnson
“If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.”
― Nikola Tesla