March 27-31
La Barbara’s video work “She is Always Alone” featured in Courtisane Festival, Ghent, Belgium [Courtisane vzw, p.a. KASK_Campus Bijloke, Louis Pasteurlaan 2, 9000 Gent, Belgium
Cataogue

March 14
La Barbara and Avant Joik in concert, ISSUE Project Room @ Brooklyn Music School, : Blending traditional Joik language and vocal experimentation using electronic soundscapes, Indigenous Sámi singer Katarina Barruk (vocals/joik) and acclaimed experimentalist Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje (vocals and live electronics) perform with live visuals by Sámi artist Matti Aikio. Renowned vocalist and composer Joan La Barbara opened the evening with Space Testing Re: … / Performance Piece / Erin, a series of vocal explorations that activated the space at Brooklyn Music School Playhouse in Fort Greene. 8pm Note: video recording of this live performance is available.
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Feb 17-April 21
La Barbara is vocalist for Shana Moulton’s “Meta/Physical Therapy” installation, music by Nick Hallett, MoMA, New York.
About the Exhibit

Jan 18
Joan La Barbara & Jacquelyn Reingold (stage & film playwright) talk about their work, process, etc., The Hermitage Artist Retreat, 6630 Manasota Key Rd, Englewood, FL 34223, 5-7:30pm.
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Jan 9-21
La Barbara’s Hermitage Artist Residency, Manasota Key, FL – work on “on the motion of leaves” (Roomful of Teeth commission).

Dec 12
Student performance of John Cage’s “Song Books”, coached and directed by Joan La Barbara, GlassBox Theatre, 55 W. 13th St., New York, 8pm.

Dec 2
John Cage’s “FOUR6” Concert (Joan La Barbara, William Winant, Fred Frith, Theresa Wong), plus collective improv, Littlefield Concert Hall, Mills College @ Northeastern University, 7-9pm.
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Dec 1
Panel discussion: Joan La Barbara, William Winant, David Bernstein on working with John Cage, Littlefield Concert Hall, Mills College @ Northeastern University, 7-8:30pm.

Nov 29
Iva Casian Lakos records La Barbara’s “a trail of indeterminate light”, “ad astra” and two duos, Oktaven Audio, 35 Grove St, Mt Vernon, NY 10550, 11am-3pm.
Bannging the Can

Nov 18
La Barbara performs Alvin Lucier’s “Memory Space”, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 600 Main St, Hartford, CT 06103, 1-2pm.
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Nov 13
Book Launch for “Transfigured New York”, Brooke Wentz’s book of interview transcriptions from her WKCR radio show in the 1980s – La Barbara has chapter, Roulette Intermedium, Brooklyn 8-9:30pm.
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Oct 13
La Barbara and Theresa Wong (cello) solos and duos at The Stone, 55 W. 13th St, NYC 7-8pm.
Event Callender

Oct 11
La Barbara and Bint duo performance for ISSUE Project Room 20th Anniversary “Gala” performance 8-10pm.
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Oct 7
JLB panelist – ISSUE Project Room “I am Sitting in a Room” panel honoring Alvin Lucier, ISSUE Project Room, 22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 8-10pm.
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July 6
La Barbara and Mariam Rezaei (turntable artist) solos & duos [JLB: “Urban Tropics”] Time of Music Summer Academy, Viitasaari Festival – Finland 5-6pm.
Festival Program

July 5
La Barbara’s solo concert: John Cage’s “Solo for Voice 49” from “Song Books”, Cage’s “Aria”, La Barbara’s “Erin”, La Barbara’s “Solitary Journeys of the Mind”, La Barbara’s “Windows”, Time of Music Summer Academy, Viitasaari festival.
Festival Program

July 2-10
‘Time of Music’ Summer Academy 2023: La Barbara conducts “John Cage: Song Books Course”, coaching and director for public performance – Viitasaari Festival – Finland.
Festival Program

June 6
La Barbara performs her solo concert “Voice Is the Original Instrument” (including her works “Solitary Journeys of the Mind”, “Windows”) plus a public conversation with Francesco Masotti, director of Ravenna Festival, Teatro Rasi, Ravenna Festival, Ravenna, Italy 9-10:30pm.
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June 4-9
La Barbara conducts workshop and master classes residency w/ Malagola School of Vocality Project, Palazzo Malagola, via di Roma 118, Ravenna, Italy.

May 12
“Late Junction” BBC Radio 3 BBC Radio 3, 11pm – 1am UK time – – broadcast of new collaborative works by Joan La Barbara and Ruth Goller: “Waterbreath”, “the River Also Changes”, “From up high”, “Raisins for feathers”.
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May 1
La Barbara’s BBC interview w/Jen Allen (in Japan), Roth Goller (in UK) & JLB in NY) Re “Late Junction” collaborative recordings.

Jan 1
La Barbara performs her work “Solitary Journeys of the Mind” for Poetry Project Marathon, The Poetry Project, 10pm, St. Mark’s Church, 10th St. and 2nd Ave.
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Nov 22
La Barbara’s talk & informal performance at Harvard Club, 44 St, New York 6-8pm.

Nov 11
La Barbara performs her “Solitary Journeys of the Mind” for ‘Chorus Poetry Festival’, Artists Space, Cortlandt St. New York(“Solitary Journeys of the Mind”, “Windows”, “Erin”).
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Oct 29
Northwestern Chamber Orchestra performs La Barbara’s “in solitude this fear is lived”, Bienen School of Music, 70 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208, 8pm.

Oct 27
La Barbara lectures on her work to Composition, Sound Art & Design students, Art Institute of Chicago, 10am-1pm.

Oct 26
La Barbara’s solo concert performance “Voice Is the Original Instrument”, including her works “Solitary Journeys of the Mind”, “Windows” and “Erin” Frequency Concert Series, Constellation, 3111 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60618, 8pm.

Oct 26
La Barbara’s lecture on her work to composition and art students at University of Chicago (with host Augusta Reed Thomas).

Oct 25
La Barbara’s Composition Colloquium, Northwestern University.

Oct 22
La Barbara’s “Awakenings” performed by Northwestern University Contemporary Music Ensemble, Ben Bolton conducting, Gavin Recital Hall, RCMA, 7:30pm.

Oct 22-30
La Barbara’s Artist Residency, Northwestern University.

Sept 27
La Barbara’s interview with Irene Kurka for podcast.

Sept 16
Tempo magazine launch online party (Tempo magazine, Vol.76 No.301 – July 2022 ISSN 0040- 2982 “Editorial: “Joan La Barbara at 75: Celebrations and Provocations” plus articles by 6 musicologists [Bernard Gendron, David Gutkin, Kerry O-Brien, Andrea F. Bohlman, Joy H. Calico and Ryan Dohoney] about La Barbara’s work(Cambridge University Press).

July 17
Iva Casian Lakos performs La Barbara’s “a trail of indeterminate light” and “ad astra”, Bang on a Can Music series, Noguchi Museum, 9-01 33rd Rd, Astoria, NY 11106.

May 1
Iva Casian Lakos performs La Barbara’s “a trail of indeterminate light” and “ad astra”, Bang on a Can Long Play Festival at Center for Fiction, 15 Lafayette Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11217, 1pm.

April 11
La Barbara & Gelsey Bell record interview for Opera America magazine.

April 8
La Barbara’s interview w/ Nora Lukacs re her DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst Berliner Kunstlerprogramm) residency year (1979) activities.

March 29
Iva Casian-Lakos performance of La Barbara’s works “a trail of indeterminate light” and “ad astra”, Staller Center for the Arts, 100 Nicolls Road, Stony Brook, NY 11794, 8-10pm.

March 24-27 La Barbara performs live: “Incense” (based on La Barbara’s “ShamanSong”), with Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company, live performance, NY Live Arts, 219 W. 19th St., New York, 7:30-10-31pm.

March 14
La Barbara performs West Coast premiere performance of Alvin Lucier’s “Palimpsest” (composed for Joan La Barbara), Monday Evening Concerts, 2220 Arts + Archives, 2220 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90057 8-10pm.

March 2
La Barbara records radio interview w/Laura Kuhn, ED, John Cage Trust for later online broadcast/podcast.

Feb 9
La Barbara’s interview w/Joy Calico re Tempo magazine issue 9-10am.

Feb 4
La Barbara’s interview w/David Re Tempo magazine issue 11am – 1pm.

Jan 3
La Barbara’s interview w/ Bernard Gendron Re Tempo magazine issue 11am – 12:15pm..

Jan 3
La Barbara’s interview w/Ryan Dohony Re Tempo magazine issue 2-4:30pm

Jan 2 La Barbara’s “in available light” online premiere: video and audio recordings plus “Windows” (audio only) for Neue Berliner Kunstverein finissage event(available online starts 8am (EST)/2pm in Berlin, accessible online until February 27, 2022).
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Jan 1
Poetry Project Marathon – La Barbara’s performance (virtual – online): excerpts from “ShamanSong” – ‘Voice of The Land’, ‘Winds’, ‘Calling to Mountains’; ‘Lullaby’.

Dec 23
La Barbara’s interview recording w/Andrea F. Bohlman re Tempo magazine(andrea.bohlman@gmail.com) 9-10am.

Oct 20
La Barbara’s “Striations” for voice and intonarumori live-streamed performance for Performa 21 Bienale (4 W. 49th St television studio).

May 13
La Barbara’s performance recording included in “I Am Sitting in a Room” – Lucier 90-person realization (online 8pm, May 13 – 11pm, May 14).

April 18
premiere of La Barbara’s “ad Astra” Bang on a Can Marathon (online live-stream worldwide) – new JLB work for cello & voice – performed by Iva Casian-Lakos (1-5pm NY time).

April 6
La Barbara records Alvin Lucier’s “I am sitting in a room…” & delivers to IPR (Re Alvin’s 90th birthday celebration).

March 29
La Barbara delivers new cello work “ad astra” commissioned by Bang on a Can to Iva Casian- Lakos.

March 4
La Barbara serves on HILDEGARD PANEL recording (National Sawdust) – zoom mtg 10:50- 11:50am.

Dec 17
La Barbara performs “Only You Will Recognize the Signal” (Sankaram/Handel): Pre-Recorded Episodes 1-6 with Finale Live Stream 70min total (1 hour 10 Minutes) Thu, Dec 17, 2020 7:00 – 8:10pm.

Dec 11
La Barbara talks with David Hughes orchestra class , coaching John Cage’s “Atlas Eclipticalis” 9:30-10:30am(online/zoom).

Dec 10
La Barbara performs in “Only You Will Recognize the Signal” (Sankaram/Handel) – livestream 11:45am-1:30pm

Nov 20
La Barbara talks with David Hughes’ orchestra class explaining John Cage’s “Atlas Eclipticalis” score (online/zoom) 9:30-10:30am.

Oct 12
La Barbara conducts online workshop for Cecilia Chorus(Mark Shapiro, Music Dir.).

August 20
Roomful of Teeth commission: workshop/residency: Joan & Mort follow-up session (zoom) 3- 4pm.

August 12
John King Sonic Gathering (John King, Joan La Barbara & Morton Subotnick performing), 6- 7pm (live-streamed).

August 6 & 7
Roomful of Teeth commission – composers Joan La Barbara and Morton Subotnick virtual meeting with vocalists, workshop/residency.

July 18
Joan La Barbara: “Extending the Boundaries of the Human Voice” performs her music “Solitary Journeys of the Mind” and talks about creating character voices (the “Alien Newborn” I Alien: Resurrection” And the Angel Voice in “Date with an Angel”) and how one goes about analyzing what sounds a ‘creature’ could make based on the structure of its head neck and body (live-streamed performance via zoom) for HB Studios, Bank Street, New York 6-7pm.
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May 22
Joan La Barbara & Gelsey Bell “CoPA Artist Hour” performance for The New School (live- streamed).

April 24-26
La Barbara performs in Kamala Sankaran & Rob Handel’s virtual opera “Only You Will Recognize the Signal ” live-streamed via HERE Art Center.

March 9
La Barbara’s “Vlissingen Harbor” performed by Mannes American Composers Ensemble, Tishman Auditorium, 63 5th Ave, New York.

March 2
NYU Composers Forum – La Barbara presents her work, Steinhardt Rm 303, 6:45-8:20pm.

Feb 10
Joan La Barbara’s “Ears of an Eagle; Eyes of a Hawk: In the Vortex” premiere (NY Philharmonic Project 19 commission), Appell Room, Jazz @ Lincoln Center, NY Philharmonic Players, 7:30- 10pm (“Sound On” Series).

Jan 16
Joan La Barbara performs in Jean-Baptiste Barriere’s “The Art of Change”, Stiefel Hall, Arnhold Hall, The New School, New York, new York.

Jan 1
La Barbara performs her work “Solitary Journeys of the Mind” at 46th Annual New Year’s Day Marathon Reading, The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church, 4pm.

Dec 16
Hildegard Competition Judging Panel member, National Sawdust, 80 N 6th St, Brooklyn 11am-2pm.

Dec 14
“Sounding Serra” concert in/w/ Serra sculpture: Reverse Curve, La Barbara’s new site specific work: “Sounding Serra” concert in/w/ Serra sculpture: “Reverse Curve”, Gagosian Gallery, 522 W 21st St, New York, NY 10011, 8-9:30pm.

Dec 9
“Cross-Currents” – Joan La Barbara live performance of her work “Incense” (from her work “ShamanSong”) with Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company 30th Year Anniversary Celebration at New York Live Arts 219 W. 19th St. NYC 2-4pm.

Dec 5
Joan La Barbara and Morton Subotnick featured guest artists: Ed Emshwiller retrospective/”Hungers” screening, Lightbox Film Center, 3701 Chestnut St, Philadelphia, PA 19104, 7-9pm.

Nov 13
Project 19 reception & Composers’ Dinner: “Women’s Voices” exhibit, New-York Historical Society 170 Central Park West (77 St), New York, NY 10024.

Oct 27
“The Art of Change” workshop (Jean-Baptiste Barriere, Joan La Barbara, Levy Lorenzo),1:30- 3:30pm.

Oct 24
La Barbara’s “Words on Water Shimmer”, performed with Ne(x)tworks, ISSUE Project Room, 22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn, 8-10:30pm.

Oct 20
Jean-Baptiste Barriere’s “The Art of Change” workshop: Joan La Barbara w/Ciara Bottenga, Stiefel Hall, Arnhold Hall, 55 W. 13th St., New York 1:45-5:15pm.

Oct 18
Reception/Book Launch: “Love, Icebox” Cage letters to Cunningham Laura Kuhn editor, (Deborah Solomon, Kent Sepkowitz hosts), 15 W. 81st St (9E), New York, New York.

Oct 15
ISSUE Project Room Gala – Joan La Barbara & Chris McIntyre featured conversation about founder Suzanne Fiol, ISSUE Project Room, 22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn, NY 22 Boerum Pl, Brooklyn, NY 7-9pm.

Oct 13
“The Art of Change” workshop (Jean-Baptiste Barriere, Joe La Barbara, Levy Lorenzo),12:30- 6:30pm.

Oct 10
Ne(x)tworks interview w/Steve Smith for New York Times feature article, Pless Annex, 26 Washington Place, 5th fl, NY 3:15-5:15pm.

Oct 5
La Barbara performs in John Cage’s “Musicircus”, Kaplan Hall 66W. 12th St. (New School Centennial celebration), 8-10pm.

Sept 19, 25, 30 & October 9
La Barbara records audio for the “fixed media” (sonic atmosphere) for her NY Philharmonic commission “Ears of an Eagle, eyes of a Hawk: In the Vortex” w/audio engineer Paul Geluso at Dolan Studios, NYU.

Sept 18
Opening Night Concert and Press Reception for “Project 19”: 19 Women Composers commissioned by NY Philharmonic commemorating the anniversary of 19th Amendment ratification, David Geffen Hall, NY.

August 30
Joan La Barbara solo concert “Voice Is the Original Instrument”, The Jam Factory, 2 Matilda St, Toronto, Canada.

June 28
Adam Tendler, piano, performs La Barbara’s “Responsive Resonance with Feathers”, Grace Cathedral,1100 California St, San Francisco, CA 94108, 7:30pm.

June 18- Sept 22
opening of “The Arcadia Center” (JLB’s VO and original music for “Cura” begins at 4:35 in video/audio clip) Ben Thorp Brown, Jeu de Paume, 1 Pl de la Concorde, Paris, France.
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April 19
La Barbara record’s “Cura” VO and original music for Ben Thorp Brown’s “The Arcadia Center”, Dungeon Beach Studio, 63 North 3rd St., Brooklyn, New York.

April 3
David Bernabo filmed interview with La Barbara for Blue Gene Tyranny documentary film.

March 22 La Barbara performs Alvin Lucier, @ Big Ears Festival, Bijou Theatre, 803 S. Gay St. Knoxville, TN.

March 21
Joan La Barbara’s solo concert “Voice Is the Original Instrument” @ Big Ears Festival featuring her works “Solitary Journeys of the Mind”, “Erin” and “Windows”, St. John’s Cathedral, 413 Cumberland Ave, Knoxville, TN, 8pm.
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March 14
Joan La Barbara’s Interpretations concert: premiere of “What’s Left of Me Is Here”, with libretto by Monique Truong, performed by La Barbara with Lauren Flanigan – soprano, Julia Meadows – soprano, Mario Diaz-Moresco – baritone, Miguel Frasconi – piano, flute and synth at Roulette Intermedium, 509 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn, NY, 8pm.

Feb 20
La Barbara performs Terry Riley’s “In C”, Darmstadt productions, at Le Poisson Rouge,158 Bleecker St, New York, NY 10012.

Nov 27
live-stream of La Barbara’s presentation on her compositional process for Resonant Bodies fund-raiser.

Nov 15
“Person, Place, Thing” – Joan La Barbara and Morton Subotnick recording w/Randy Cohen (The Radio Foundation, 89th & Central Park West, NYC) for later broadcast.

Nov 2-3
premiere performances of La Barbara’s “Virginia and the Time Machine” , a commission from Experiments in Opera for “Modularias”, with libretto by Monique Truong, at The Flea Theater, 20 Thomas St, New York, NY 10007, 7pm.

June 21
La Barbara performs “Crowds and Power”, music by Morton Subotnick in collaboration with Joan La Barbara and live visuals by Lillevan.
Location: Dartmouth College, Loew Theater, Hanover, New Hampshire.

June 8
Joan La Barbara conducts a Workshop on Extended Vocal Techniques at Greek National Opera, Alternative Stage, Athens, Greece.

June 7
La Barbara performs her works: “Solitary Journeys of the Mind”, “Erin”, and “Windows”Windows at Greek National Opera, Alternative Stage, Athens, Greece.

June 7-8
Joan La Barbara performs Morton Subotnick’s “Crowds and Power”, music by Morton Subotnick in collaboration with Joan La Barbara and live visuals by Lillevan.
Location: Dartmouth College, Loew Theater, Hanover, New Hampshire.

June 5
Joan La Barbara talks about her work to artists and students for hangar.org in Barcelona, Spain.

June 1-3
Joan La Barbara is the featured artist for Poetas 2018 Festival, Madrid, Spain, performing her works in concert at Matadero Madrid, Plaza de Legazpi 8, Madrid, Spain.
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May 18
Joan La Barbara and Gelsey Bell perform John King’s micro-operas “Ping!”,”A-R-S” and “What is the Word” at Glass Box Theater, The Stone, 55 W. 13th St, New York City, May 18 at 8:30pm.
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May 14
Lauren Flanigan, Soprano and Mario Diaz-Moresco, Baritone perform an excerpt from La Barbara’s “Dear Joe” (from “The Wanderlusting of Joseph C.” song cycle composed by Joan La Barbara with lyrics by Monique Truong) with Bryan Hayslett, Cellist, “FLanigan @ 60”, a Gala Benefit for Music and Mentoring House.
Location: Peter Jay Sharp Theater, Symphony Space, 95th St. @ Broadway, NYC, 7pm

April 18
La Barbara performs works by John Cage with pianist Adam Tendler in conjunction with “Jasper Johns: Something Resembling Truth.” at the Broad Museum, 221 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, California 90012, 8pm

April 13
La Barbara performs her work “Windows” along with Lauren Flanigan – soprano, Mario Diaz-Moresco – baritone, Miguel Frasconi – flute and Bryan Hayslett – cello performing La Barbara’s song cycle “The Wanderlusting of Joseph C.” in the contemporary galleries of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in conjunction with “Birds of a Feather; the works of Joseph Cornell”.
6pm.

February 13 and 14
Morton Subotnick’s “Crowds and Power”, in collaboration with Joan La Barbara, vocalist and performer and Lillevan, visual projections in its LA premiere at REDCAT.

February 10
La Barbara gives the keynote address and a solo concert of her music at AWMAT 2018: “Vissi d’arte: A Lifetime Collaborating in Media and Technology” 7pm, in Geiringer Hall, UCSB, on Saturday, February 10, 2018.

January 1
La Barbara performs “Solitary Journeys of the Mind” at the 44th Annual New Year’s Day Marathon Reading for The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church, 131 E. 10th St., NYC. 2pm – 2am.
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November 3-19
La Barbara performs the title role in “Thomas Paine in Violence”, the premiere of Paul Pinto’s opera at HERE Art Center, 45 6th Avenue, New York, NY

November 8
La Barbara performs the American premiere of Alvin Lucier’s “Double Rainbow”, composed for her in 2016, at Issue Project Room, 8pm.
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October 15-22
“This is a Voice” exhibition at MAAS, Sydney Australia
La Barbara’s iconic graphic score and recorded performance of “Circular Song” are part of “This is a Voice”, a special exhibition which was launched in April 2016 at Wellcome Collection in London in collaboration with the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences (MAAS), opening in Sydney, Australia August 11, 2017 and continuing through January 28, 2018. La Barbara travels to Sydney to do performances of her works at the Sydney Conservatorium, lecture on her music and also reprise her role of ‘Interpreter’ in Agatha Gothe -Snape’s “Rhetorical Chorus” at Carriageworks. Activities listed below: October 16-22, 2017.
October 16: workshop at Sydney Conservatory
October 17: JLB solo performance at Sydney Conservatorium of Music
October 18: lecture at Sydney Conservatory
October 19-22: performances of “Rhetorical Chorus” by Agatha Gothe-Snape at Carriageworks.

September 28 & 29
La Barbara performs her work at the Annenberg Center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia on September 28, at 8pm, and talks about her music for Composer’s Colloquium on September 29.

September 17
La Barbara performs her works “Windows” (Austrian premiere), “Solitary Journeys of the Mind” (Austrian premiere), and “The River also Changes” (World Premiere) for Klangspuren Schwaz.
Tirol, Austria.

September 6
La Barbara presents her work “The River also Changes” at Resonant Bodies Festival
Roulette Intermedium, 509 Atlantic Avenue at Third Avenue, Brooklyn(3 sets starting at 7:15pm).
PROGRAM

July 20-22
La Barbara (Actor/Singer) and Lillevan (live imagery) collaborate with Morton Subotnick in the premiere of his new work “Crowds and Power” for Lincoln Center Festival, Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse, 165 W. 65th St, 8:30pm.

May 24
“Joan La Barbara at 70”
La Barbara premieres her song cycle “The Wanderlusting of Joseph C” with libretto by Monique Truong, performed by Lauren Flanigan – soprano, Mario Diaz-Moresco – baritone and Julia Meadows – soprano, and Ne(x)tworks (La Barbara composer / conductor and vocals., Yves Dharamraj – cello, Shelley Burgon – harp, Miguel Frasconi – glass, flute and laptop, Stephen Gosling – piano, Christopher McIntyre – trombone Roulette Intermedium, a “Generate” production. Brooklyn, 8pm.
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PROGRAM

May 6
Bang on a Can Marathon 2017
Joan La Barbara’s A Murmuration for Chibok, (lyrics by Monique Truong) which honors and keeps in the present over 250 school girls abducted in Chibok, Nigeria by Boko Haram in 2014, performed by the award-winning winning Young People’s Chorus of NYC, led by Francisco Nuñez, 2-10pm, at the Brooklyn Museum.
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March 6
YPC Gala
Joan La Barbara’s “Murmuration for Chibok”,(lyrics by Monique Truong) which honors and keeps in the present over 250 school girls abducted in Chibok, Nigeria by Boko Haram in 2014, performed by the award-winning Young People’s Chorus of NYC, led by Francisco Nuñez, at the Frederic P. Rose Concert Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Broadway at 60th Street, 7pm.
Young People’s Chorus of NYC

February 25 and 26
La Barbara performs her work “Solitary Journeys of the Mind” and also John Cage’s “Aria”, Earle Brown’s “December 1952” and George Lewis’ “Shadowgraph, 5” for the “Music for Merce (Project)” concert, at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL.
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February 23 and 24
La Barbara performs her work “Solitary Journeys of the Mind” and also John Cage’s “Aria”, Earle Brown’s “December 1952” and George Lewis’ “Shadowgraph, 5” for the “Music for Merce (Project)” concert, at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN.
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February 2-4
Joan La Barbara is Musical Director of a new production of Robert Ashley’s anti-war opera “Dust” at Arnhold Hall, 55 W. 13th St. a co-production of the College of Performing Arts, Mannes School of Music and Lang School of Jazz, The New School.
Performances: February 2 and 3 at 8 pm
February 4 at 3 pm and 8 pm.
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REVIEWS

January 19
ISSUE Project Room, Brooklyn celebrates its Artist Residency program with special performances by Joan La Barbara and Miguel Frasconi (Ne(x)tworks) with Audrey Chen, 22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn, NY 8pm.
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December 29
La Barbara lectures on her music at Musrara Art Institute, Jerusalem, Israel.

December 28
Performances of La Barbara’s music: “Circular Song” and “in the shadow and act of the haunting place” by Chanan Ben Simone and Ensemble Musica Nova at Ha Teiva, Tel Aviv, Israel.

December 27
La Barbara lectures on her music at Jerusalem Academy of Music, Jerusalem, Israel.

November 10
La Barbara performs her works “Solitary Journeys of the Mind”, “ShamanSong”, “Circular Song” and “Windows” at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, c/ Santa Isabel nº 52, Madrid, Spain, 7pm.
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November 4 and November 6
La Barbara’s new choral work, “A Murmuration for Chibok” with lyrics by award winning Vietnamese-American novelist Monique Truong, commissioned for “Transient Glory” by Young People’s Chorus of New York. The work celebrates and honors the 200+ young women who were kidnapped from their school in Chibok, Nigeria in April 2014 by Boko Haram, a radical group which disapproves of the education of women and of non-religious-based education. Few of these young women have been rescued or have escaped and their fate is still unknown, although a video was released to their families in April 2016. Premiere of this choral work will take place on Friday, November 4, 7 pm at National Sawdust, 80 North 6th St, Brooklyn, NY 11249 and Sunday, November 6, 7 pm at Merkin Concert Hall, 129 W 67th St, New York, NY 10036.

November 1
La Barbara presents her music at CUNY/Brooklyn Composers’ Forum.

October 31
La Barbara presents her music at NYU Composers’ Forum.

October 23
La Barbara performs “Solitary Journeys of the Mind” plus new mixes of her works “Windows” and “October Music: Star Showers and Extraterrestrials” in the iconic planetarium on Montreal’s Olympic park (Parc olympique de Montreal, 4545 Avenue Pierre-de Coubertin, Montreal, QC, H1V 3N7).

October 12-14
Alvin Lucier 85th Birthday Festival at the University of the Arts, Zurich Switzerland:
10/12 : La Barbara presents a workshop on advanced vocal techniques and contemporary repertoire
10/13 : La Barbara performs Lucier’s “Palimpsest” (with text by Lydia Davis) at 6pm, plus Morton Feldman’s “Only” in concert, at 8 pm
10/14 : La Barbara premieres “Rainbow”, a new work by Lucier, 8pm.

June 20
“The Transmigration of Morton F.” featuring Joan La Barbara, directed by Sjaron Minailo with music by Morton Feldman and Anat Spiegel, launches at Bellevue Theatre in Amsterdam with a concert including the world premiere of La Barbara’s “Touches (distances)” performed by La Barbara with Boyan Dellatre, and “Solitary Journeys of the Mind”. La Barbara also performs “Echoes” written for her by Anat Spiegel, and Morton Feldman’s shortest but perhaps most poignant work “Only”. This concert launches the digital video work “The Transmigration of Morton F.” which will be available in perpetuity on the website below.
In “The Transmigration of Morton F.”, the worlds of opera, ritual and computer-gaming coalesce. Commissioned by the Holland Festival, director Sjaron Minailo and composer Anat Spiegel’s creation is a fully digital music theatre performance to be experienced from June 20 on www.mortonf.net. The legendary vocal artist Joan La Barbara performs the protagonist as herself: while visiting Amsterdam she finds herself caught up in a game of cat and mouse with a mysterious character whom she believes to be the reincarnation of iconic composer Morton Feldman with whom she has worked in the past. As La Barbara’s surreal dreamworld unravels, the viewers are invited to travel the infinite paths of their own choosing through Spiegel’s and Feldman’s compositions, Holland Festival, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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June 18
Panel discussion by nyMusikk: Odd Mouth Sound
Joan La Barbara, Nicholas Bullen, Sue Tompkins and Stine Janvin Motland discuss their varying approaches to vocal composition; the meeting of visual art and vocal sound and what it means to “vocal fry” and “death grunt!”.
Voice is the original instrument, a mini-festival curated by Mark Beasley in collaboration with Kunsthall Oslo and nyMusikk, focuses on the voice and vocal experimental expressions, and will feature concert performances by the renowned artists Joan La Barbara, Nicholas Bulllen, Sue Tompkins, and Stine Janvin Motland. The event will take place at the exhibition space 1857, a former lumberyard with monumental height and acoustics.
Four leading composers, vocalists and visual artists will present a series of performances that examine the range and scope of vocal performance from its avant-garde beginnings through popular form and back again. American composer and singer Joan La Barbara’s seminal work Voice is the Original Instrument (1976) and her collaborations with composers John Cage, Steve Reich and Robert Ashley and visual artist’s Bruce Nauman, Judy Chicago and Matthew Barney connect the worlds of music, performance and visual art. Her early works are recognized classics of the form and set the bar for subsequent extended vocal techniques and vocal composition. La Barbara performs her works “Space Testing Re: 1857”, “Solitary Journeys of the Mind”, “Circular Song” and “Windows”.
Panel Discussion 6pm, nyMusikk, Platous gate 18, Concert 7pm, Venue 1857, Tøyenbekken 12 Oslo, Norway.
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May 7
Ne(x)tworks premieres Morton Subotnick’s “Song” for chamber ensemble, electronics and Paul Geluso’s specially designed 3D speaker array , commissioned by Harvestworks and funded in part by Aaron Copland Fund for Music. This performance is co-produced by Harvestworks and Knockdown Center, Knockdown Center, 52-19 Flushing Ave., Maspeth, NY 11378, 8pm.
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May 7
“CYCLONE” – Surround sound performance of newly restored multichannel work by Joan La Barbara scored for multiple voices, percussion and Arp 2600 synthesizer sounds, for “semi-live” performance on multiple speakers with the original light panning device custom designed by Ralph Jones.The work was last performed in 1977 at PS1 in NYC (Queens) and was an award-winning sound sculpture installation/performance work (independent artist submission) at ISCM World Music Days (Weltmusiktage) in Bonn, Germany. Both installation/performances were done with analog audio tape (mixed to mono) and moved in the spaces using light-panning device and penlight. Reconstruction, analog to digital transfers and remixes were funded in part by Aaron Copland Fund for Music and New Music USA Project grants. These performances are co-produced by Harvestworks and Knockdown Center, Knockdown Center, 52-19 Flushing Ave., Maspeth, NY 11378, 6pm.
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April 16
Cafe OTO.
La Barbara performs a solo concert at famed London performance space. Works include: “Solitary Journeys of the Mind”, “Circular Song”, “ShamanSong”, and “Windows”, 16-22 Ashwin Street, London, UK.

April 14
“Exploring the Voice”, Lecture/demonstration/panel at Clore Studio
American vocalist Joan La Barbara, renowned for her unique vocabulary of experimental and extended vocal techniques, is joined by Paul Farrington (vocal coach and vocal consultant) and Mary King (performer, teacher, coach and broadcaster) as they explore the material quality of the voice and how it can be manipulated in performance. The Insight is presented by BBC broadcaster Sara Mohr Pietsch, 7:15 – 8:45pm, Royal Opera House, London, UK.

April 13
“This Is A Voice”, Wellcome Trust Exhibition
La Barbara’s score and recording of her seminal vocal étude “Circular Song” are featured in this exploration of the voice in its many facets. La Barbara performs her work “Solitary Journeys of the Mind” at the opening event. Exhibition opens to the public on April 14, Wellcome Collection, 183 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE, UK
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March 7-8
“Thomas Paine in Violence”, an opera-in-progress by Paul Pinto, featuring Joan La Barbara as the Spirit of Thomas Paine. Simultaneously set in and around the posthumous mind of the revolutionary activist, Thomas Paine in Violence is a text-dense psychedelic opera, taking place in a cosmic radio station, and inspired by Paine’s most radical writings, political soapboxing, swearing, censorship, slam poetry, Henry Fonda, and shock jock punditry, at HERE Art Center, 145 6th Ave.

February 27
Three 20 Minute “Micro-Operas” performed by Joan La Barbara and Gelsey Bell. Three small chamber operas employing chance, improvisation, live electronics and randomly controlled lighting. “Ping” with text by Samuel Beckett, and “What is the Word”, at the Avant Festival 2016, Wild Project, 195 E. 3rd St.
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December 21
“Alpine Echoes,” La Barbara’s new work for multiple voices, premieres for “Make Music Winter.”
Bennet Park, Washington Heights, NYC, 12noon – 1pm.
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December 9
Launch party for “Make Music Winter,” featuring a preview of La Barbara’s new work for multiple voices, “Alpine Echoes.”
Dan Goode’s loft, 167 Spring Street #3, 7-9pm.
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December 4 & 5
“Jack & Julie Project,” La Barbara appears in “Exit Papers” and “The Terrace,” two of seven 10-minute plays presented at HB Playwrights Theatre, 124 Bank St., West Village, NYC.

November 18
La Barbara is “The Transmitter” (Actor) in Agatha Gothe-Snape’s “Rhetorical Chorus (LW)”, a performance work inspired by conceptual artist Lawrence Wiener that explores the role of the physical body in transmitting and receiving knowledge, commissioned by Performa 15. 8pm, Society for Ethical Culture, 2 W 64th Street, New York, NY 10023

November 14
“Equity Library Theater presents A selection of plays from the Provincetown Players”
La Barbara joins fellow actors Ami Fazchas, Danielle Elizabeth Letsche, Susan Neuffer, Katherine O’Sullivan, Howard Margulies and David Sutton in staged readings of short plays by Floyd Dell, Alice Gerstenberg and Susan Glaspell, directed by Johnny Culver. 2pm, NYPL Riverside Library, 127 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10023
(212) 870-1810
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November 7
White Light Conversation: Language and Human Consciousness. Artists and scientists, Joan La Barbara (Composer), Steven Pinker (Experimental Psychologist), Colum McCann (Author) and Gary Tomlinson (Music Historian) join moderator John Schaefer (Host of WNYC’s “Soundcheck” and New Sounds) to consider the evolution of language from a tool of survival into a transcendent mode of artistic expression. Admission: FREE (seating is first come, first serve), 4pm, Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse, Rose Building, 165 W. 65th St., 10th floor, New York, NY 10023

October 23
“It’s a Baby!” by Peter Chansky
La Barbara joins fellow actors Howard Margulies, Ashley Bloom, Zachary Reeves, Gianna Masi, Kate Hamill, Clint Zugel and David Riley in a staged reading of Peter Chansky’s new play “It’s a Baby!” 8pm, 61 Local, 61 Bergen Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201
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October 10
“Equity Library Theater presents A selection of plays from the Provincetown Players”
La Barbara joins fellow actors Ami Fazchas, Danielle Elizabeth Letsche, Susan Neuffer, Katherine O’Sullivan, Howard Margulies and David Sutton in staged readings of short plays by Floyd Dell, Alice Gerstenberg and Susan Glaspell, directed by Johnny Culver. Admission: FREE. 1-2pm, NYPL Grand Central Branch, 135 East 46th Street, New York, NY 10017
(212) 621-0670
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September 22-27
La Barbara conducts a workshop on Morton Feldman’s landmark “Three Voices” composed for her in 1982 and recorded on the New Albion label. The workshop will take place at Queen Elizabeth Music Chapel under the auspices of the Belgian Royal Opera House La Monnaie/De Munt.

August 22
Joan La Barbara appears in “Equity Library presents a staged reading of short plays by Alice Gerstenberg, Floyd Dell, and Susan Glaspell, NYC playwrights from the early 20th century” directed by Johnny Culver at George Bruce Library Theater, 518 W. 125th Street (at Amsterdam) August 22, at 2pm. Event is free.
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July 2
Joan La Barbara in concert with Peter Gordon (saxes) and Fast Forward (objects), The Stone, corner of Avenue C and 2nd St, NYC, 8pm.
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May 22-June 13
“S/N” (signal to noise) exhibition opened May 22 at The Kitchen Center for Music, Art & Video (512 W. 19th St). Curated by the Helena Rubenstein Curatorial Fellows of the Whitney Independent Study Program, it includes “She Is Always Alone”, a site-specific realization of Joan La Barbara’s conceptual work, “Performance Piece/Ashley gave me an idea”, recorded May 1979 in Berlin by the late German artist Mike Steiner as part of his “Hotel Room Event” project. This 17-minute video (presented on monitor w/headphone playback) captures a moment in time of that period in the ’70’s when the borders between art and music were more malleable.
Gallery hours:
Tuesday, Friday, 12-6 PM
Saturday, 11 AM – 6 PM

May 26-June 1
MoMA Presents: Barbara Hammer’s Welcome to This House, a Film on Elizabeth Bishop
With her latest work, Barbara Hammer, who is known for films about lesbian life, history, and sexuality that draw upon avant-garde tradition, examines the little-known aspects of the life of the Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979). Hammer’s film, shown here in its New York premiere, explores BishopÕs inner life through some of the homes in which she lived and wrote-from childhood to her final days-and through the more private and sensorial poems that were published after her death. Featuring music composed and performed by the experimental singer and musician Joan La Barbara; Bishop’s intimate poems read by Kathleen Chalfont; three actors representing Bishop’s physical presence at different stages of her life; and interviews by historians, poets, and students, Welcome to This House sensitively portrays a complex, private, and challenging writer whose poetry continues to inspire.
Organized by Sally Berger, Assistant Curator, Department of Film.

March 6-7
La Barbara appears in the title role of Thomas Paine in Paul Pinto’s “Unintelligible Response” (from “Thomas Paine in Violence”, an opera-in-progress), Culturemart at HERE, 145 6th Ave (@ Varick)

February 21
La Barbara appears in the title role of Thomas Paine in Paul Pinto’s “Unintelligible Response” (from “Thomas Paine in Violence”, an opera-in-progress), for “First Take”, a project of “The Industry” and “wild up”, at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, Los Angeles, 1-5pm. The opera depicts the final days of the American revolutionary activist Thomas Paine, the strange events of his “afterlife”, and the censorship of his work. This piece is written for vocal virtuoso Joan La Barbara.

February 5
Lincoln Center presents a shared evening of experimental vocal works by composer and extended voice pioneer Joan La Barbara and composer/performer Pamela Z. Each will perform solo works with and without electronic processing as well as improvised and scored duo works. 7:30 pm, Lincoln Center at the David Rubenstein Atrium, 61 W. 62 St, New York.

November 4
La Barbara performs with New Music luminaries in Darmstadt’s 50th Anniversary celebration of Terry Riley’s “In C”, Le Poisson Rouge, Bleecker St, NYC.

October 26
La Barbara performs with Ne(x)tworks: “Unintelligible Response” from “Thomas Paine in Violence” by Paul Pinto, “Weight” by Gelsey Bell, and “Sun Studies” by Miguel Frasconi, ISSUE Project Room, 22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn.

October 3
La Barbara premiered her new work “The Dream of Ariadne, (or Joseph Cornell Observes a Constellation of Regrets” with text by Monique Truong, and also performed “Solitary Journeys of the Mind” for the “Born into Flames” series, Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street, New York.

September 23-24
Joan La Barbara was artist-in-residence at Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA, presenting workshops on her compositions and a concert of her music including “Circular Song”, “Solitary Journeys of the Mind” and “Windows”.

July 21-22
Joan La Barbara and Nai-Ni Chen present “Crossing Boundaries”, a workshop focusing on Composer/Choreographer collaborations at the Beijing Modern Dance Festival, sponsored in part with funding from New Music USA Project Grant , Association of Performing Arts, Presenters Cultural Exchange Fund and Rapid Response from American Dance Abroad.

June 7-8
“Parallel Dreams”, a performance work featuring music by Joan La Barbara and Claude Debussy, with Kathleen Supové – Pianist & Performer; Joan La Barbara – Composer & Performer; Gemma Forbes, Didier Flamand, Iva Micic and Lior Lamacchia – actors; Director & Video Installation – Aleksandar Kostic; Set & Costume Design – Marija Plavsic Kostic. “Parallel Dreams” was made possible in part with public funds from the Manhattan Community Arts Fund, supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and administered by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. FIGMENT festival, Governors Island, House #15 in Nolan Park.

June 1
“SOUNDSCAPES” at Spectrum; La Barbara performs her works “Solitary Journeys of the Mind” and “Windows”, as well as improvisations with Cornelius Dufallo and Patrick Derivaz, 7pm, 121 Ludlow Street.

April 26 and 27
Joan La Barbara performs her music from “ShamanSong” with Nai-Ni Chen’s dancework “Incense” at Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company’s 25th Anniversary season “Celebration of Dance with Live Music” Performance at Salvatore Capezio Theater, 126 East 13th St., NYC, Saturday, April 26 at 8pm and Sunday, April 27 at 3pm.
“Incense” excerpt

April 25
Ne(x)tworks premieres new works by Kristin Norderval and ensemble member Shelley Burgon. Issue Project Room, 8PM, 22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn, NY 11222, 8:30PM. 718-330-0313
Contact: info@issueprojectroom.org

April 17-19
Cornell University: Ne(x)tworks residency includes workshops on extended techniques, improvisation and graphic score interpretation; composers colloquium on the music of Joan La Barbara; two concerts featuring John Cage’s landmark theater work “Song Books” with solos from “Concert for Piano and Orchestra” and “Atlas Eclipticalis” and music by ensemble members and Cornell faculty composers.

March 23
“VOICE ~ CREATURE OF TRANSITION” a conference/festival sponsored by Rietveld Akademie at De Brakke Grund, Amsterdam, Netherlands. La Barbara presented a concert of her music, including “Circular Song” (her vintage 1974 étude exploring her “circular singing” techniques inspired by circular breathing done by wind players), as well as “Solitary Journeys of the Mind”, a real-time composition revealing the composer’s improvisatory thought processes, and “Windows”, inspired by the dreams and visual work of Joseph Cornell, the circular architectural shapes of Frank Lloyd Wright and Antoni Gaudí and sounds within the mind.

March 14
L@TE concert at Berkeley Art Museum: La Barbara presents a concert of her music, including “Circular Song” (her vintage 1974 étude exploring her “circular singing” techniques inspired by circular breathing done by wind players), as well as “Solitary Journeys of the Mind”, a real-time composition revealing the composer’s improvisatory thought processes, and “Windows”, inspired by the dreams and visual work of Joseph Cornell, the circular architectural shapes of Frank Lloyd Wright and Antoni Gaudí and sounds within the mind.

March 13
Pamela Z Arts’ intimate avant chamber series is proud to present a shared evening of experimental vocal works by Joan LaBarbara and Pamela Z as the first event in the 2014 ROOM Series season. Each will perform solo works, and the two will perform an improvised duo work at Royce Gallery, 2901 Mariposa St. #18, San Francisco, CA 94110. Tel: 415-621-8277 La Barbara’s work is presented on “Crack o’Dawn” on KPFA radio in the Bay Area (program begins at midnight and runs until 3 AM). Barbara Golden hosts. [CoD’s 25th anniversary season]
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March 11
sfSoundSalan Series; La Barbara performs a program of solo voice, group improvisations, and a performance of Angels, Demons and Other Muses (2010) with sfSoundGroup, Center for New Music, 55 Taylor, San Francisco, 7:45PM.
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March 11
La Barbara presents her work for Zeena Parkins’ seminars on the voice, Mills College in Oakland.

February 28 and March 1
La Barbara performs John King’s opera “Ping” (text by Samuel Beckett) and Paul Pinto’s “Thomas Paine in Violence” (libretto by Jacob Burkhardt) at Abrons Art Center, 8pm, 466 Grand Street (at Pitt Street) New York, NY 10002 as part of “Experiments in Opera: Radio Operas” mini-festival.
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February 21
The opening night of the 2014 Avant Music Festival. La Barbara performs the world premiere of “Palimpsest”, a new solo vocal work by Alvin Lucier in the mold of his landmark I Am Sitting In A Room and featuring a text by the author Lydia Davis, Presented by Avant Media at The Wild Project, 195 East 3rd St., Manhattan, NY.
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February 20
Interpretations Series, Roulette, Brooklyn, NY. La Barbara weaves her own unique sonic world, layering her signature vocal techniques with natural and electronic sounds, creating other-worldly dreamscapes in “Windows”, inspired by the dreams and visions of Joseph Cornell. Roulette (509 Atlantic at 3rd Ave), 8PM.

February 12-16
Matthew Barney’s new work River of Fundament; Visionary artist Matthew Barney makes his BAM debut with the world premiere screening of River of Fundament, a radical reinvention of Normal Mailer’s novel Ancient Evenings. In collaboration with composer Jonathan Bepler, Barney combines traditional modes of narrative cinema with filmed elements of performance, sculpture, and opera, reconstructing Mailer’s hypersexual story of Egyptian gods and the seven stages of reincarnation, alongside the rise and fall of the American car industry.
The film’s central scene is an abstraction of MailerÕs wake, set in a replica of the late author’s apartment in Brooklyn Heights and featuring Maggie Gyllenhaal, Paul Giamatti, Elaine Stritch, Ellen Burstyn, Joan La Barbara, and jazz percussionist Milford Graves. Alluring and intense, this epic, multidimensional experience is a sprawling allegory of death and rebirth within the contemporary American landscape. Written and directed by Matthew Barney. Music written and directed by Jonathan Bepler. Premieres at BAM Harvey Theater, 30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn, NY – (718) 636-4100.

December 5
“In C” – La Barbara is the vocal soloist in Terry Riley’s landmark minimalist work; a Darmstadt production, with So Percussion, at ISSUE Project Room, 22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn, NY, 11222, 8:30 PM. 718-330-0313 Contact: info@issueprojectroom.org

December 3
“Striations” – La Barbara performs her work “Striations”, scored for intonarumori and voice with megaphone; In the 100th anniversary year of Futurist Luigi Russolo’s manifesto, The Art of Noises, The Orchestra of Futurist Noise Intoners (Luciano Chessa, Director) performs on the only complete reconstruction of Russolo’s earliest Intonarumori Orchestra, commissioned by Performa. Hand-cranked instruments designed to produce ”noises”the first instruments capable of creating and manipulating sound through entirely mechanical processes generate sounds of whirrs and buzzes, clangs, scrapes, sirens and mechanically plucked strings. The program includes historical compositions by Russolo and Paolo Buzzi, as well as newly composed works by Chessa, Ulrich Krieger, Joan La Barbara, Annie Lewandowski, Theresa Wong (all also performing). 8:30 PM, RedCat Theater, Disney Hall Complex, 631 West 2nd St, Los Angeles.

November 9 and 10
Performa 13 festival – La Barbara’s choral composition premieres as part of the Florian Hecker/Reza Negarastani/Joan La Barbara collaboration: “C.D. (A Script for Synthesis)”, commissioned by Performa 13, at the Guggenheim Museum Theater, 1071 Fifth Avenue, NYC.

November 2
Performa 13 festival – La Barbara performs her works “Circular Song”, “Solitary Journeys of the Mind” and “Windows” for “The Voice is the Original Instrument” a Performa festival focus on the voice event, 7:30 PM, at Ethical Culture Society, 2 W. 64 St, NYC.

October 11
La Barbara premieres Morton Subotnick’s “Jacob’s Room” for amplified voice, string orchestra and electronics, Juilliard Orchestra, Jeffrey Millarsky, conducting, 8PM, Alice Tully Hall, NYC.

August 12 – September 20
La Barbara artist residency at Civitella Ranieri, Perugia, Umbria, Italy.

May 22
La Barbara performs her work “Solitary Journey of the Mind” at the American Composers Orchestra benefit,6:30 PM, Tribeca Rooftop, Two Desbrosses St. in Tribeca.
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May 17
La Barbara talks about her work and the history of extended vocal techniques and performs “Solitary Journey” and “Circular Song” at Performa 13’s Voice Symposium, 8PM, Cooper Union Auditorium.
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April 25-27
Premiere of La Barbara’s “Storefront Diva: a dreamscape”, composed for pianist Kathleen Supove, music, concept and direction by La Barbara, with video projections and installations by Aleksandar Kostic, costume and set design by Marija Plavsic, Flea Theater, 41 White Street, NYC.

March 7
Joan La Barbara performs her work “Solitary Journey” in support of The Kitchen which is being honored. “Independent” is a curated selection of about 40 galleries, non-profit spaces, and international publications. The fair was conceived four years ago by Elizabeth Dee, Darren Flook, and Matthew Higgs. Unlike most art fairs, there is a focus on allowing the participants to be part of the decision making process for how they want to be represented. This is The Kitchen’s first time participating, and we are grateful to have been chosen (along with Printed Matter) as a dedicatee for this year’s edition due to how this performing arts space was affected by Hurricane Sandy. La Barbara’s performance begins at 7:40 PM, The Independent, (the former Dia: Chelsea location) 548 West 22nd Street.

March 4
Joan La Barbara’s work “a trail of indeterminate light” for cellist who sings, will be performed on the Interactive Arts Performance Series, along with works by Julia Wolfe, Robert Rowe, Tae Hong Park, Joel Chadabe, Taehi Kim, Dafna Naphtali, Luke Dubois, Youngmee Lymn and Elizabeth Hoffman. FREE ADMISSION. 8 PM, NYU’s Loewe Theater, 35 W. 4th St.

February 9
Joan La Barbara, Jessye Norman and Meredith Monk join Michael Tilson Thomas and the New World Symphony in their production of John Cage’s “Song Books”, New World Center, Miami, FL.
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February 8
Joan La Barbara sings John Cage’s “She is Asleep” with New World Symphony, New World Center, Miami, FL.
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December 15
La Barbara performs “Why Black? Why Red?” by Julius and “Solitary Journey” by La Barbara at Castelo di Rivoli, Torino, Italy. (e/static, Torino) Curator: Carlo Fossati.
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November 30 and December 1
Ne(x)tworks performs “Song Books” and other works by John Cage at Christ Church and Philadelphia Museum of Art (Bowerbird Productions).
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November 9
La Barbara premieres Morton Subotnick’s new wordless opera “LUCY”, featuring Lillevan – live video and Subotnick – synthesizers and electronics. Also on the program: Kathleen Supové performing “The Other Piano”; Supové with Todd Reynolds, violin, perform Trembling. 6:45 PM pre-concert talk; 8 PM concert. Coolidge Auditorium, Library of Congress, 500 17th Street NW, Washington, DC 20006.

October 21-24
Appearances in Mexico City, sponsored by Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes (CNCA: Culture Ministry).

October 23
Concert of Vocal music by Cage and La Barbara at La Ciudadela, 6PM.

October 22
Lecture on Cage at Fonoteca Nacional, 12 Noon.

October 4
La Barbara and Ne(x)tworks perform John Cage’s “Variations IV” (including multiple works by John Cage) at David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center, 61 W. 62 Street, New York, NY, entrance on Broadway btwn 62 and 63rd Street), 8:30 PM. Part of Target Free Thursday series, presented by Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.

September 13 – 16
La Barbara performs works by John Cage at Teatro Colon, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

September 10 and 11
Ne(x)tworks performs Zeena Parkins’ work “Spellbeamed”, along with works by Ne(x)tworks composers at Roulette.
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August/September/October
La Barbara is engaged in rehearsals and filming of Mathew Barney’s and Jonathan Bepler’s Cinematic opera project “River of Fundament”, inspired by Normal Mailer’s novel “Ancient Evenings”.

August 17
La Barbara performs “Experiences No. 2” and “ear for EAR” at the BBC Proms 2012 festival. Prom 47: Cage Centenary Celebration. Royal Albert Hall.
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August 15
“Process: Non-Intentions and Extensions: The Vocal Music of John Cage and Joan La Barbara at Museum der Moderne Salzburg, part of a comprehensive exhibition dedicated to the work for John Cage, curated by Toni Stooss and Tina Teufel. Composer/performer Joan La Barbara worked directly with John Cage for nearly two decades, premiering scores written for her as well as giving definitive performances of earlier compositions. La Barbara’s concert spans 6 decades, featuring her own unaccompanied vocal works, “Circular Song”, “Solitary Journey”, “Conversations” and “Gatekeeper”, alongside Cage’s landmark “Aria”, “Music for Three (by One)”, “Experiences No. 2”, “Mirakus 2” and “Eight Whiskus”.
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June 6-10
La Barbara joins Matthew Barney and Jonathan Bepler in a workshop developing Barney’s new film work based on Norman Mailer’s book “Ancient Evenings”; open workshop/performances on June 9 & 10, Frascati Theatre, Holland Festival.
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June 7
La Barbara performs her solo works, “Solitary Journey”, Conversations”, “Gatekeeper”, “habité par ses rêves et les phantasms”, and “Circular Song”, plus works by Cage and Feldman in a concert celebrating her birthday at 9PM, Bimhuis, Amsterdam, Holland.

May 23
Composer/Performer/Musicologist Luciano Chessa performs La Barbara’s experimental sensory-deprivation work “Hear What I Feel” at 10PM, The Stone, Avenue C at 2nd Avenue, NYC.
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May 10
La Barbara performs her works “Conversations”, “Circular Song”, “habitè par ses rêves et des phantasms”, and “Solitary Journey”, as well as a duo improvisation with vocalist/composer Jaap Blonk for Barcelona Poesia 2012 (28th Barcelona International Poetry Festival) at 8:30 PM the Auditorium of Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona.
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April 25-28
La Barbara performs Robert Ashley’s updated “CONCRETE” with lots of new songs, Roulette, Brooklyn.
www.roulette.org

March 30
La Barbara performs “Monodrama” from “Jacob’s Room” by Morton Subotnick, with the San Francisco Symphony, American Mavericks series at 8:30 PM, Carnegie’s Zankel Hall.

March 27
Joan La Barbara, Meredith Monk and Jessye Norman perform John Cage’s “Song Books” with the San Francisco Symphony on the American Mavericks series at 8PM, Carnegie’s Stern Hall, NYC.

March 25
La Barbara performs “Monodrama” from “Jacob’s Room” by Morton Subotnick, with the San Francisco Symphony, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

March 23
Joan La Barbara, Meredith Monk and Jessye Norman perform John Cage’s “Song Books” with the San Francisco Symphony in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

March 17-21
La Barbara’s new work “Persistence of Memory”, with film by Aleksandar Kostic will be featured at MaerzMusik/Berliner Festspiele. The focus of the 2012 festival is “John Cage and Consequences”. La Barbara directs a new production of Cage’s “Song Books” with Ne(x)tworks musicians and Berlin-based vocal ensemble Maulwerker for the festival. 7PM, Haus der Berliner Festspiele, Berlin, Germany.
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March 10 and 14
Joan La Barbara, Meredith Monk and Jessye Norman perform John Cage’s “Song Books” with the San Francisco Symphony, 8PM, Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco, CA.

March 12
Joan La Barbara talks about her work at CCRMA Colloquium, 5:15-6:30 PM, Stanford University, California
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March 11
La Barbara performs “Monodrama” from “Jacob’s Room” by Morton Subotnick, with the San Francisco Symphony, 8PM, Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco, CA.

March 1
John Cage & Consequences, Artist Talk: La Barbara discusses her twenty year working relationship with Cage in “On Beyond Mentoring – Answering Questions with Questions”, at 7PM, The American Academy in Berlin.

February 25 and 26
“Music without Dance” a mini-festival; Ne(x)tworks performs works originally created as music scores for dance, newly re-scored as concert works. At Renee Weiler Hall (Greenwich House, 46 Barrow Street, NYC), 7:30 PM, with pre-concert panel discussion with Choreographers and Composers at 6PM on Sunday evening only.
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December 27
Kathleen Supové performs “Storefront Diva” a new work composed and directed by Joan La Barbara, with set and costumes by Marija Plavsic, and video by Aleksandar Kostic at 159 Bleecker ST (directly opposite Le Poisson Rouge), 4 – 8 PM, Greenwich Village NYC.
[“Storefront Diva” is made possible in part with public funds from the Manhattan Community Arts Fund, supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and administered by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, with additional support from the New York University Adjunct Faculty Development Fund and theComposer Assistance Program of the American Music Center.]