« The language of the woods, the impossibility of saying only with the dominant and signifying language. Then there are other possible languages, emanating from an immediate reality and more ancestral : the language of noises, mutes, ecosystems, biotopes, improvised songs and tattered words … language of care, shouts, and breaths. »
Voices and language are its instrument and tool of research.
In the early 90s, Natacha is passionate about music and cinema. She began by studying music and voice in Paris (Jazz, Indian classical music, Italian polyphonic choir) followed by a residency in Bombay. She starts early on to develop an experimental and poetic exploration of the voice, which she puts into practice within transdisciplinary groups. The artist is specifically interested by the choir, as unheard of potential, intrinsically micro-political. She conceives and puts into practice different choirs without chief, largely inspired by futurist, Dadaist and Situationist movements: choeur in situ, choeur terrain vague, choeur présocratique, choeur tac-til.
In 1998, Natacha discovered free improvisation, its practice, its minor history, and a whole field of exploration opened up to her. She improvised with Michel Doneda, Jean Sébastien Mariage, the duo Baise en ville, and joined a large improvisation ensemble, Nodal, activated by David Chiesa with Mathieu Chamagne, Frédérique Blondy, Lê Quan Ninh, Isabelle Dutoit, Pascal Bathus, Laurent Hovenaers, Mathieu Werchowski, Vincent Geais, Bertrand Gauguet, Jean Sébastien Mariage, Sébastien Cirroteau, Michel Doneda.
In the early 2000s, she began making films and performances that experimented with the relationships between sound and image, image and voice, where the experience of listening amplified that of seeing. In 2009 she directed a digitised 16mm film, Angèle de Foligno, a very free adaptation of The Book of Visions and Instructions. Several cine poems and performance films followed Ramallah mon amour (2010) , Débâcle (2015).
Over time, Natacha records the sounds of ecosystems, biotopes, shortwave radio, feminist struggles, inarticulate languages and songs. With this material, she composes for cinema and radio (France Musique, France Culture, BBC, Radio Grenouille, etc.).
Natacha founded Choeur tac-til in 2012, a choir with sighted and blind vocalists. This opened up a space for practice, reflection, and composition, distanced from the visual field. The choir is in residence at the Gmem, CNCM, located in Marseille.
In 2016, she was awarded a Villa Medici Hors les Murs with the artist eRikm. Together, they composed a creative radio documentary about the struggles of the Innu First Nations in Quebec, Nitassinan, the land teaches us the night. This piece was broadcast on community radio stations in Quebec and on France Culture.
In 2016, she opened a vocal research and creation laboratory at Gmem-CNCM. Artists, therapists, and researchers from France and Europe participate in it.
Between 2021 and 2026, she is co-directing The coming year and Blind song, two documentary and experimental films, with Stefano Canapa.
Today she creates with : Choeur tac-til, Amanda Gardone, Lionel Marchetti, Aude Romary and Angelica Castello (Mutantes), Le UN, Stefano Canapa (Tienda oscura), Michel Doneda (Coyote), Cécile Duval (Zaoum ba hump’f), Cécile Sans (Sous la voix), Laure Chartier (Jamais toujours), Voix mutilphonique.
Living creations in France and abroad Japan, Russia, India, Argentina, Quebec, Hungary, Greece, Italy, Spain, Germany, Belgium, Palestine, Swiss, Austria…
Diffusion of its vocal pieces, audio poems on France Culture and France Musique, Radio Classica (RNE) Ars Sonora, Seville Radiopolis FM, Radio Grenouille, Radio Libertaire, Arteweb, BBC, Radio Radio Galère (Marseille), Pnode, Firefly frequencies, Radio Roquette, etc…
The films are shown at : FID Marseille, Peuple and Culture Marseille, Instant vidéos Marseille, Video Bardo Buenos Aires, Vidéo festival of Ramallah, Cinéma Parallèle Montréal, Festival des cinémas différents et expérimentaux Paris… and on various websites, including the Dérives website.
ACTUALLY
Un Chant Aveugle, co-réalisation Stefano Canapa, 16 mm on HD, 63′, 2026
L’année qui vient, co-réalisation Stefano Canapa, film 16mm numérisé, 45′ 2025
MUTANTES Aude Romary (cello) – Angélica Castelló (Paetzold, tapes & electronic) – Natacha Muslera (voice, radio short wave)
Choeur tac-til & Lionel Marchetti Natacha Muslera composes for a blind choir : supported by Gmem, National center of experimental music in Marseille, 2012-2018. Drac Paca, Off-cells.
COYOTE with Michel Doneda (saxophones) and NM (voice), sound rite
ZAOUM BA UMP’F HTLM Cécile Duval (actres, improviser)
LE UN Sophie AGNEL : piano – Pascal BATTUS : rotary surfaces – Claire BERGEREAULT : accordion and voice – Benjamin BONDONNEAU : clarinet – Christophe CARDOEN : lighting – Patrick CHARBONNIER : trombone – David CHIESA : double bass – Michel DONEDA : saxophone – Camille EMAILLE : percussion – Nina GARCIA : electric guitar – Amanda GARDONE : double bass – Bertrand GAUGUET : saxophone – Anouck GENTHON : violin – Rozemarie HEGGEN : double bass – Benoit KILIAN : percussions – Soizic LEBRAT : cello – Lionel MARCHETTI : electronics – Michel MATHIEU : actions – Natacha MUSLERA : voice – Jérôme NOETINGER : electronics – Jean-Luc PETIT : contrabass clarinet and sopranino – Christian PRUVOST : trumpet – Dominique REGEF : hurdy-gurdy – Aude ROMARY : cello – Mathieu WERCHOWSKI : violin and viola
TIENDA OBSCURA performance with Stefano Canapa
SOLOs- Performances LHT – amplified and / or acoustic « The first gesture is to listen to the place, the second, radical, introduces a tear into space which simultaneously tears and restores the place to the real. » Shortwave (voice & amplified radio) Incantation (voice, drum, shortwave radio) Singing with the trouble ( tie microphone, vocal poem) Wild manifestation (outdoor, acoustic voice)
natachamuslera@gmail.com