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2024
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).
2023
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.
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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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2022
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
Oct 27
Oct 26
Oct 26
Oct 25
Oct 22
Oct 22-30
Sept 27
Sept 16
July 17
May 1
April 11
April 8
March 29
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
March 2
Feb 9
Feb 4
Jan 3
Jan 3
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).
Jan 1
2021
Dec 23
Oct 20
May 13
April 18
April 6
March 29
March 4
2020
Dec 17
Dec 11
Dec 10
Nov 20
Oct 12
August 20
August 12
August 6 & 7
July 18
May 22
April 24-26
March 9
March 2
Feb 10
Jan 16
Jan 1
2019
Dec 16
Dec 14
Dec 9
Dec 5
Nov 13
Oct 27
Oct 24
Oct 20
Oct 18
Oct 15
Oct 13
Oct 10
Oct 5
Sept 19, 25, 30 & October 9
Sept 18
August 30
June 28
June 18- Sept 22
April 19
April 3
March 22
La Barbara performs Alvin Lucier, @ Big Ears Festival, Bijou Theatre, 803 S. Gay St. Knoxville,
TN.
March 21
March 14
Feb 20
2018
Nov 27
Nov 15
Nov 2-3
June 21
June 8
June 7
June 7-8
June 5
June 1-3
May 18
May 14
April 18
April 13
February 13 and 14
February 10
January 1
2017
November 3-19
November 8
October 15-22
September 28 & 29
September 17
September 6
July 20-22
May 24
May 6
March 6
February 25 and 26
February 23 and 24
February 2-4
January 19
2016
December 29
December 28
December 27
November 10
November 4 and November 6
November 1
October 31
October 23
October 12-14
June 20
June 18
May 7
May 7
April 16
April 14
April 13
March 7-8
February 27
2015
December 21
December 9
December 4 & 5
November 18
November 14
November 7
October 23
October 10
September 22-27
August 22
July 2
May 22-June 13
May 26-June 1
March 6-7
February 21
February 5
November 4
October 26
October 3
September 23-24
July 21-22
June 7-8
June 1
April 26 and 27
April 25
April 17-19
March 23
March 14
March 13
March 11
March 11
February 28 and March 1
February 21
February 20
February 12-16
December 5
December 3
November 9 and 10
November 2
October 11
August 12 - September 20
May 22
May 17
April 25-27
March 7
March 4
February 9
February 8
2012
December 15
November 30 and December 1
November 9
October 21-24
October 23
October 22
October 4
September 13 - 16
September 10 and 11
August/September/October
August 17
August 15
June 6-10
June 7
May 23
May 10
April 25-28
March 30
March 27
March 25
March 23
March 17-21
March 10 and 14
March 12
March 11
March 1
February 25 and 26
2011
December 27
December 16 and 17
December 1
October 7
September 17
September 11
September 9
July 9, 10, 16, 17, 23, 24
June 10
May 21 May 6 March 17 March 4 February 25 January 29 January 17
2010
December 22 December 21 December 9 November 18 November 12 October 18 October 10 October 7 September 28 & 29 September 26 August 24 August 21 July 16 April 29
April 13 April 16-17
March 26-27
March 22
March 3-5
2009
November 27 November 21 November 20 November 12 November 3 October - November November 1 October 31 October 28 June 23 June 13 June 7 June 5 - July 31 May 31 May 25 - 28 April 24 April 8 March 21 February 23 January 14 - 17 and 22 - 25
2008 December 12 & 13 December 2-4 November 17 November 8 November 7 October 24 & 25 October 22 October 18 September 30 - October 4 September 24-28 September 6 August 30 August 8 August 5 August 3 August 1 July 27 - August 5 June 5-9 May 30 May 3 April 5 March 15-24 March 5 & 6 March 1 February 17 February 16 February 12-14 February 10 February 9 February 2
2007
October 21 & 22 October 10 October 5 & 6 June 29 June 16 & 17 April 19-21 October
July July
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.
La Barbara lectures on her work to Composition, Sound Art & Design students, Art Institute of
Chicago, 10am-1pm.
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.
La Barbara's lecture on her work to composition and art students at University of Chicago
(with host Augusta Reed Thomas).
La Barbara's Composition Colloquium, Northwestern University.
La Barbara's "Awakenings" performed by Northwestern University Contemporary Music
Ensemble, Ben Bolton conducting, Gavin Recital Hall, RCMA, 7:30pm.
La Barbara's Artist Residency, Northwestern University.
La Barbara's interview with Irene Kurka for podcast.
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).
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.
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.
La Barbara & Gelsey Bell record interview for Opera America magazine.
La Barbara's interview w/ Nora Lukacs re her DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst
Berliner Kunstlerprogramm) residency year (1979) activities.
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.
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.
La Barbara records radio interview w/Laura Kuhn, ED, John Cage Trust for later online
broadcast/podcast.
La Barbara's interview w/Joy Calico re Tempo magazine issue 9-10am.
La Barbara's interview w/David Re Tempo magazine issue 11am - 1pm.
La Barbara's interview w/ Bernard Gendron Re Tempo magazine issue 11am - 12:15pm..
La Barbara's interview w/Ryan Dohony Re Tempo magazine issue 2-4:30pm
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Poetry Project Marathon - La Barbara's performance (virtual - online): excerpts from
"ShamanSong" - 'Voice of The Land', 'Winds', 'Calling to Mountains'; 'Lullaby'.
La Barbara's interview recording w/Andrea F. Bohlman re Tempo
magazine([email protected]) 9-10am.
La Barbara's "Striations" for voice and intonarumori live-streamed performance for Performa 21
Bienale (4 W. 49th St television studio).
La Barbara's performance recording included in "I Am Sitting in a Room" - Lucier 90-person
realization (online 8pm, May 13 - 11pm, May 14).
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).
La Barbara records Alvin Lucier’s "I am sitting in a room..." & delivers to IPR (Re Alvin's 90th
birthday celebration).
La Barbara delivers new cello work "ad astra" commissioned by Bang on a Can to Iva Casian-
Lakos.
La Barbara serves on HILDEGARD PANEL recording (National Sawdust) - zoom mtg 10:50-
11:50am.
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.
La Barbara talks with David Hughes orchestra class , coaching John Cage's "Atlas Eclipticalis"
9:30-10:30am(online/zoom).
La Barbara performs in "Only You Will Recognize the Signal" (Sankaram/Handel) - livestream
11:45am-1:30pm
La Barbara talks with David Hughes' orchestra class explaining John Cage's "Atlas
Eclipticalis" score (online/zoom) 9:30-10:30am.
La Barbara conducts online workshop for Cecilia Chorus(Mark Shapiro, Music Dir.).
Roomful of Teeth commission: workshop/residency: Joan & Mort follow-up session (zoom) 3-
4pm.
John King Sonic Gathering (John King, Joan La Barbara & Morton Subotnick performing), 6-
7pm (live-streamed).
Roomful of Teeth commission - composers Joan La Barbara and Morton Subotnick virtual
meeting with vocalists, workshop/residency.
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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Joan La Barbara & Gelsey Bell "CoPA Artist Hour" performance for The New School (live-
streamed).
La Barbara performs in Kamala Sankaran & Rob Handel's virtual opera "Only You Will
Recognize the Signal " live-streamed via HERE Art Center.
La Barbara's "Vlissingen Harbor" performed by Mannes American Composers Ensemble,
Tishman Auditorium, 63 5th Ave, New York.
NYU Composers Forum - La Barbara presents her work, Steinhardt Rm 303, 6:45-8:20pm.
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).
Joan La Barbara performs in Jean-Baptiste Barriere's "The Art of Change", Stiefel Hall, Arnhold
Hall, The New School, New York, new York.
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.
Hildegard Competition Judging Panel member, National Sawdust, 80 N 6th St, Brooklyn 11am-2pm.
"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.
"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.
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.
Project 19 reception & Composers' Dinner: "Women’s Voices" exhibit, New-York Historical
Society 170 Central Park West (77 St), New York, NY 10024.
"The Art of Change" workshop (Jean-Baptiste Barriere, Joan La Barbara, Levy Lorenzo),1:30-
3:30pm.
La Barbara's "Words on Water Shimmer", performed with Ne(x)tworks, ISSUE Project Room,
22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn, 8-10:30pm.
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.
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.
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.
"The Art of Change" workshop (Jean-Baptiste Barriere, Joe La Barbara, Levy Lorenzo),12:30-
6:30pm.
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.
La Barbara performs in John Cage's "Musicircus", Kaplan Hall 66W. 12th St. (New School
Centennial celebration), 8-10pm.
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.
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.
Joan La Barbara solo concert "Voice Is the Original Instrument", The Jam Factory, 2 Matilda St,
Toronto, Canada.
Adam Tendler, piano, performs La Barbara's "Responsive Resonance with Feathers", Grace
Cathedral,1100 California St, San Francisco, CA 94108, 7:30pm.
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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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.
David Bernabo filmed interview with La Barbara for Blue Gene Tyranny documentary film.
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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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.
La Barbara performs Terry Riley's "In C", Darmstadt productions, at Le Poisson Rouge,158
Bleecker St, New York, NY 10012.
live-stream of La Barbara's presentation on her compositional process for Resonant Bodies
fund-raiser.
"Person, Place, Thing" - Joan La Barbara and Morton Subotnick recording w/Randy Cohen (The
Radio Foundation, 89th & Central Park West, NYC) for later broadcast.
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.
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.
Joan La Barbara conducts a Workshop on Extended Vocal Techniques at Greek National Opera,
Alternative Stage, Athens, Greece.
La Barbara performs her works: "Solitary Journeys of the Mind", "Erin", and "Windows"Windows
at Greek National Opera, Alternative Stage, Athens, Greece.
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.
Joan La Barbara talks about her work to artists and students for hangar.org in Barcelona, Spain.
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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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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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
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
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.
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.
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.
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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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
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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"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.
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.
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.
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
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.
"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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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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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
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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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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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
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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La Barbara lectures on her music at Musrara Art Institute, Jerusalem, Israel.
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.
La Barbara lectures on her music at Jerusalem Academy of Music, Jerusalem, Israel.
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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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.
La Barbara presents her music at CUNY/Brooklyn Composers' Forum.
La Barbara presents her music at NYU Composers' Forum.
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).
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.
"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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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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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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"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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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.
"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.
"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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"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.
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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"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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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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"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.
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
"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
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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
"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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"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
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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.
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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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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"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.
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Tuesday, Friday, 12-6 PM
Saturday, 11 AM - 6 PM
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.
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)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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".
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.
"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.
"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.
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.
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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
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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.
"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.
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.
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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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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La Barbara presents her work for Zeena Parkins' seminars on the voice, Mills College in Oakland.
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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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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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.
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.
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"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:
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"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.
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.
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.
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.
La Barbara artist residency at Civitella Ranieri, Perugia, Umbria, Italy.
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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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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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.
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.
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.
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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Joan La Barbara sings John Cage's "She is Asleep" with New World Symphony, New World Center, Miami, FL.
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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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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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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.
Appearances in Mexico City, sponsored by Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes (CNCA: Culture Ministry).
Concert of Vocal music by Cage and La Barbara at La Ciudadela, 6PM.
Lecture on Cage at Fonoteca Nacional, 12 Noon.
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.
La Barbara performs works by John Cage at Teatro Colon, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Ne(x)tworks performs Zeena Parkins' work "Spellbeamed", along with works by Ne(x)tworks composers at Roulette.
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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".
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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"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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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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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.
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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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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La Barbara performs Robert Ashley's updated "CONCRETE" with lots of new songs, Roulette, Brooklyn.
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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.
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.
La Barbara performs "Monodrama" from "Jacob's Room" by Morton Subotnick, with the San Francisco Symphony, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Joan La Barbara, Meredith Monk and Jessye Norman perform John Cage's "Song Books" with the San Francisco Symphony in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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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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.
Joan La Barbara talks about her work at CCRMA Colloquium, 5:15-6:30 PM, Stanford University, California
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La Barbara performs "Monodrama" from "Jacob's Room" by Morton Subotnick, with the San Francisco Symphony, 8PM, Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco, CA.
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.
"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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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.]
Ne{x}works and JACK Quartet premieres new works by Zeena Parkins ("Spellbeamed"), La Barbara ("Persistence of Memory"), Miguel Frasconi ("Sitting and Standing: A Memoire"), and Christopher McIntyre ("Smithson Project: The Shape of Time"), 8 PM, The Kitchen, 512 W 19th ST.
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JLB performs her work "Striations" for voice with megaphone and intonarumori.(reconstructions of Futurist Luigi Russolo's "noise intoners") with members of the New World Symphony, 8PM, New World Symphony Hall, Miami Beach, FL (presented by Performa 11).
Ne(x)tworks performs works by Tim Hodgkinson at Renee Weiler Hall (Greenwich House, 46 Barrow Street, NYC)
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La Barbara performs her works "Gatekeeper", "Circular Song", "Conversations" and "Solitary Journey" at Modena Civic Arts Galleryl, for "The Extended Voices" festival, Il Gesto del Suono, Modena, Italy. La Barbara receives 2011 Premio internazionale "Demetrio Stratos" Per la sperimentazione musicale (International Prize "Demetrio Stratos" music experimentation).
La Barbara will perform her work "Gatekeeper" on the "Music After" marathon concert, beginning at 9:18 AM and continuing past midnight at Joyce SoHo, 155 Mercer St. NYC. (exact time of La Barbara's performance tbd)
La Barbara will perform her seminal etude "Circular Song" (1975), "Twelvesong", her first "sound painting" and "Solitary Journey", a current work, for The Kitchen's 40th anniversary celebration concert, "Pioneers of the Downtown Sound" at The Kitchen 512 W. 19 St. NYC.
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La Barbara's music is featured in "The Invisible Miss Whitney", a one-act play by Darlene Troiano, performed by Patricia Dodd, which, with "As Directed", written and performed by Dawn Sofia, are presented in "Trapped", an evening of one-act dramas, directed by Michael Beckett, HB Studio, 8 PM, 120 Bank Street, NYC.
La Barbara sings Morton Feldman's epic "Three Voices" at The Philadelphia Museum of Art, "Art After 5" series, presented by Bowerbird, Inc.
www.bowerbird.org
La Barbara sings Morton Feldman's "Only", John Cage's "Eight Whiskus" and her own works "Gatekeeper" and "Solitary Journey" at Black Box Theatre, Center for the Arts, EPC, May 21 8PM as part of E-POETRY 2011 Festival.
Joan La Barbara will present her new work "Journeys and Observable Events" (2011) with Ne(x)works and special guests Leah Dufallo - Cello, Amy Kauffman - violin, Tiernan Ray and Carol Neiman - actors, utilizing the entire Greenwich House Music School facility, 8 PM, 46 Barrow Street, NYC.
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Joan La Barbara's solo performance at Greenwich House, 46 Barrow Street, NYC, 8PM. Music by La Barbara ("Gatekeeper" and "Solitary Journey") and early gems by Morton Feldman ("Only") and John Cage ("The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs"/"Nowth upon Nacht" with texts by James Joyce,in honor of St. Patrick's Day), with Stephen Gosling rapping and tapping on the piano body.
www.greenwhichhouse.org
World Premiere of La Barbara's new work "In Solitude is this fear lived" for voice, orchestra and sonic atmosphere with American Composers Orchestra, "Playing it Unsafe" project, 8 PM, Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall.
Ne(x)tworks at Renee Weiler Hall (Greenwich House, 46 Barrow Street, NYC).
www.nextworksmusic.net
John Cage Songbooks (Solos for Voice 3-92) (1970)
Video of the Performance, Part I
Video of the Performance, Part II
Public Workshop/reading of La Barbara's new work "In Solitude is this fear lived" for voice, orchestra and sonic atmosphere with American Composers Orchestra, "Playing it Unsafe" project. (CUNY, Aaron Davis Hall Theater Complex, Harlem Stage Theater B, 135th & Convent Ave.)
Ne(x)tworks performs Julius Eastman's Stay On It (1973) on all day marathon event on MLK Day at Merkin Concert Hall, 67th Street, NY.
www.kaufman-center.org
Joan La Barbara with Shazad Ismaily and Marina Rosenfeld at The Stone, 2nd St @ Avenue C, 10PM. www.thestonenyc.com
Joan La Barbara's solo performance at The Stone, 2nd St @ Avenue C, 8PM. www.thestonenyc.com
Public Workshop/reading of La Barbara's new work "In Solitude is this fear lived" for voice, orchestra and sonic atmosphere with American Composers Orchestra, "Playing it Unsafe" project. (time & place tbd) www.americancomposers.org
Ne(x)tworks cd release concert @ Renee Weiler Hall (Greenwich House Music School)
Edgard Varese untitled graphic score (ca. 1957)
Jon Gibson Multiples (1972)
Christopher McIntyre Sites/Nonsites (2010) [preview from Smithson Project]
Leroy Jenkins Space Minds, New Worlds, Survival of America (1979)
Arthur Russell Singing Tractors (pages 1 & 2) (ca. 1987)
La Barbara performs her work "Gatekeeper" on VitalVox festival, Issue Project RoomOld American Can Factory, 232 3rd Street, in Brooklyn, NY. www.vitalvoxfest.com
Public Workshop/reading of La Barbara's new work "In Solitude is this fear lived" for voice, orchestra and sonic atmosphere with American Composers Orchestra, "Playing it Unsafe" project. (Jewish Community Center, 76th St at Amsterdam, New York, 3-4:30 PM) www.americancomposers.org
La Barbara performs works by La Barbara and Behrman at Atelier Claus, Place Rogier, Brussels, Belgium
La Barbara performs works by La Barbara and Behrman at Serralves Museum, Porto, Portugal.
La Barbara performs John Cage's "Aria" with Merce Cunningham's "X-OVER" at City Center "Fall for Dance" festival, NYC.
La Barbara performs Christian Marclay's "Manga Scroll at The Whitney Museum of Art, 945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street, NYC, 5PM. whitney.org>www.whitney.org
Ne(x)tworks performs Joan La Barbara's "in the shadow and act of the haunting place" (1995, revised 2009); Shelley Burgon "Four Days" (2007); NxW Trio: "Emergences" (2007) at The Stone, 2nd St @ Avenue C, 8PM.
La Barbara performs Christian Marclay's "Manga Scroll at The Whitney Museum of Art, 945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street, NYC. Schedule of events:
2:30 PM Open Rehearsal in the Gallery
4 PM Performance of "Manga Scroll"
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La Barbara performs Christian Marclay's "Manga Scroll at The Whitney Museum of Art, 945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street, NYC. Schedule of events:
3 PM Artist's talk
4 PM Open Rehearsal in the Gallery
7 PM Performance of "Manga Scroll" followed by "Open Studio" talk
whitney.org
La Barbara performs excerpts from "Angels, Demons and Other Muses", her opera-in-progress, with Ne(x)tworks at Roulette/Location One, Interpretations Series. 20 Greene St, NYC. Info: Roulette
"The Unique Voice of Joan La Barbara: A Life in Experimental Music and Beyond" - La Barbara gave a talk on her work at the American Academy in Berlin, Hans Arnhold Center, Berlin-Wannsee.
La Barbara performs John Cage's "Aria" with Merce Cunningham's "X-OVER", Monaco.
"An American Rendition", La Barbara's collaboration with Jane Comfort and Company, at Raritan Valley Community College, NJ.
La Barbara performs her works "Circular Song" and "Conversations" at Foundation for Contemporary Arts Awards Celebration, Robert Rauschenberg Studio, NYC.
UMBC artist residency: workshops and performance by Joan La Barbara and Tom Chiu. Works include La Barbara's "Die Wassergeister (Water Ghosts)" for voice, violin and sonic atmosphere and "Circular Song"; Chiu's "Hello Aloha; and works by Scelsi, Cage, Dodge and Xenakis.
Ne(x)tworks performs "Emergences" by Joan La Barbara, Miguel Frasconi and Cornelius Dufallo at The Stone, 2nd St at Avenue C, 8PM.
La Barbara performs "October Music: Star Showers and Extraterrestrials" at Performa 2009 festival, at the Gramercy Theater (formerly the Blender) in Manhattan. More information is available at http://www.performa-arts.org
La Barbara performed in "ResoNations", An International Telematic Music Concert for Peace, at the United Nations Headquarters in New York as part of a multi-city simultaneous teleconcert. Performance times and locations included: 7:30PM EST United Nations Headquarters, New York City.4:30PM PST University of California San Diego. 5:30PM MST The Banff Centre, Alberta, Canada. 12:30AM BST Queens University Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom (November 21). 9:30AM KST Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and Dongguk University, Seoul, South Korea (November 21).
La Barbara premieres a new work "Striations" commissioned by Performa 2009, composed for the reconstructed "intonarumori" (Luigi Russolo's fantastic "noise machines", reconstructed from original photos and schematics under the direction of Luciano Chessa) at The Town Hall, Performa 2009 festival, New York City.
La Barbara performs her work on the "Reconstructing Song" series at Stadtgarten, Cologne, Germany. Also on the bill is Joke Lanz, ritualistic noise artist.
Joan La Barbara's music, with video by Kurt Ralske, is included in the exhibition "Il Gesto del Suono" at REC Festival in Reggio Emilia.
La Barbara performs Robert Ashley's operas DUST and CONCRETE at Odeon Theater, Vienna Austria.
Ne(x)tworks will perform La Barbara's "Revelations in the Wind" for chamber ensemble and sonic atmosphere at 8:30 PM, Issue Project Room, 232 3rd St @ 3rd Ave, Brooklyn. More information is available at http://www.issueprojectroom.org
La Barbara performs a solo concert as part of the exhibition "Il Gesto del Suono" Trienale Bovisa Gallery, 8:30 PM Milano, Italy More information is available at http://www.triennalebovisa.it and http://www.ilgestodelsuono.it
September 18
La Barbara performs her work "Gatekeeper" at San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, Brave Theater, 2781 24th St., San Francisco, CA, 94110.
http://sfemf.org/
June 27
Ne(x)tworks performs La Barbara's " Snowbird's Dance, Into the Light and Beyond" at Ontological Theater, 131 E. 10th Street, NYC.
In Celebration of EXACT CHANGE publishers' 20th year, La Barbara performs her new work "habité par ses reves et les phantasms" inspired by "Joseph Cornell's Dreams" at 8PM Issue Project Room, 232 3rd Street, 3rd floor, Brooklyn, NY. http://www.issueprojectroom.org/events/
Joan La Barbara presents her Workshop on Extended Vocal Technique and contemporary vocal composition at Issue Project Room at 3 PM, 232 3rd Street, 3rd floor, Brooklyn, NY.
http://www.issueprojectroom.org/events/
Ne(x)tworks performs Fred Rzewski's "Les Moutons de Panurge" at 7 PM and La Barbara's " Scatter", as well as works by Frasconi, Bunch, Coleman and Schumacher, at 9 PM. Issue Project Room, 232 3rd Street, 3rd floor, Brooklyn, NY.
http://www.issueprojectroom.org/events/
Joan La Barbara's music, with video by Kurt Ralske, is included in the exhibition "Il Gesto del Suono" at Centro Trevi, Bolzano, Italy
http://www.auditoriumedizioni.it
La Barbara performs "Circular Song", "Conversations", "Performance Piece", excerpts from "73 Poems", and "VOICE-PIECE: One-Note Internal Resonance Investigation" at Institute of Contemporary Arts "Talk Show", 4 PM, The Mall, London.
May 29
La Barbara performs her own works "Les Oiseaux qui chantent dans ma tête", "Conversations" and "in the dreamtime" at La Casa Encendida, Ronda de Valencia No. 2, 10.30 PM, Yuxtaposiciones Festival, Madrid, Spain.
http://www.lacasaencendida.es
La Barbara conducts workshops on Extended Vocal Techniques, Contemporary Compositions for the Voice, and New Opera Concepts at La Casa Encendida, Ronda de Valencia No. 2, 11 AM - 2 PM, Yuxtaposiciones Festival, Madrid, Spain.
http://www.lacasaencendida.es
La Barbara performs Terry Riley's "In C" with an ensemble curated by the Kronos Quartet for the 45th anniversary of the premiere of "In C". At Carnegie Hall, Stern Auditorium/ Perelman Stage, NYC.
La Barbara performs with Jake Meginsky, Greg Kelley, and Bhob Rainey at Bennington College, Vermont.
La Barbara performs her works "VOICE PIECE: One-Note Internal Resonance Investigation", "Circular Song", "Les Oiseaux qui chantent dans ma tete", "Conversations" and "ROTHKO" at INSTAL Festival, The Arches, Glasgow, Scotland.
American premiere of "Messa di Voce" an interactive media performance work by Joan La Barbara, Jaap Blonk, Golan Levin, Zachary Lieberman at Frederick Loewe Theatre, 35 W. 4th Street, 8 PM, sponsored by NYU Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions Music Technology Program and Electronic Music Foundation.
La Barbara performs Robert Ashley's operas DUST, CONCRETE and Celestial Excursions at LA Mama, E. 4 St, NYC.
La Barbara performs John Cage's "Aria" with Merce Cunningham's "X-OVER" at Kennedy Center, Washington, DC.
Ne(x)tworks residency at Bennington College, Bennington, VT.
La Barbara performs her works "Shimmer" and "ROTHKO" with video by Kurt Ralske at 8pm, Merce Cunningham studios, Westbeth, 55 Bethune St, NYC.
La Barbara performs her work at Ciclo de Música Contemporánea 2008 in Buenos Aires.
Joan La Barbara performing "Three Voices" by Morton Feldman at Ciclo de Música Contemporánea 2008 in Buenos Aires.
La Barbara performs John Cage's "Lecture on the Weather" at Chelsea Art Museum, 556 W. 22 St (at 11th Ave), NYC.
Ne(x)tworks performs works from The New York School at 8:30PM, Issue Project, 232 Third St, Brooklyn, NY.
http://www.issueprojectroom.org/events.html
La Barbara performs her work "Circular Song" at Chelsea Art Museum, as part of Notations 21 exhibition, 2PM, Chelsea Art Museum, 556 West 22nd Street, NYC.
Joan La Barbara performing John Cage's "Aria" with Merce Cunningham's new choreography "XOVER" at Barbican, London.
Premiere of "An American Rendition": Joan La Barbara and Jane Comfort collaborate again on a new political theater work/spoken word opera with music commissioned by NYSCA, performance made possible through funding from Live Music for Dance: Jane Comfort and Company at Duke Theater, 229 W. 42 St.
www.dukeon42.org.
http://www.janecomfortandcompany.org
La Barbara's solo violin work "Flash!" will be performed as part of 60 x 60 event at Galapagos, 8PM, 16 Main St, Brooklyn.
Joan La Barbara performing "Three Voices" by Morton Feldman in Ruemlingen (just outside Basel), Switzerland.
Joan La Barbara performing excerpts from "Three Voices" by Morton Feldman at 8PM, Bard College "Spiegeltent",
SummerScape 2008 festival (New Albion Records).
La Barbara performs her works "Shimmer" and "ROTHKO" with video by Kurt Ralske at Auditorio Foro Cultural, Festival FIAC 2008, Léon, Mexico.
La Barbara performs her works "Shimmer" and "ROTHKO" with video by Kurt Ralske at Teatro El Galeon in Mexico City.
La Barbara performs her works "Shimmer" and "ROTHKO" with video by Kurt Ralske at Teatro Roma de Vivar, Pachuca, Mexico.
La Barbara does workshops on extended vocal techniques and New Opera at XI Encuentro Internacional de Escena Contemporanea Transversales Hidalgo 2008.
Joan La Barbara performing Robert Ashley's "Dust" at Aterform Festival in Ferrara, Italy.
La Barbara performs her work "Circular Song", John Cage's "Eight Whiskus" composed for her in 1984, plus the premiere of a three voice version of Cage's "Music for Three" with Alvin Curran and Philip Corner at Bologna's Museum of Modern Art. Celebrating the opening of an exhibition of photos, video, sound recordings and various memorabilia commemorating the 30-year anniversary of the CageTrain, which took place in 1978, embarking from Bologna's main train station and making stops along the way for special sonic events.
Ne(x)tworks concert residency at Chelsea Art Museum, 556 W. 22nd St at 11th Avenue, NYC 2pm: premiere of "Scatter" by Joan La Barbara(an homage to Bebe Barron), plus works by Kenji Bunch, Ariana Kim, Chris McIntyre, and Miguel Frasconi.
Ne(x)tworks concert residency at Chelsea Art Museum, 556 W. 22nd St at 11th Avenue, NYC 2pm: premiere of "Words on Water (Shimmer)" by Joan La Barbara , plus works by Miguel Frasconi and selections from the Alvin Curran "Fake Book".
Soloist Champions: Meet the Composer has commissioned new works for 8 contemporary virtuosos, funded by NYState Fund for Music. Margaret Lancaster premieres composer Joan La Barbara's new score "Atmos" for flute and sonic atmosphere: Saturday, March 15 - Hallwalls, Buffalo, New York. Wednesday, March 19, Symphony Space, Sharp Theater, New York City. Monday, March 24 - SUNY-Purchase, New York.
Ne(x)tworks Trio in Belfast, performing works by Cornelius Dufallo, Joan La Barbara, Miguel Frasconi, Earle Brown, John Cage and Christian Woolf.
Ne(x)tworks concert residency at 2pm, Chelsea Art Museum, 556 W. 22nd St at 11th Avenue: works by Cornelius Dufallo, Shelley Burgon, Joan La Barbara, Miguel Frasconi and Jon Gibson.
Joan La Barbara performing "Three Voices" and "Only" by Morton Feldman at De Doelen (Flipsezaal), Rotterdam, Holland.
Joan La Barbara performing "Three Voices" and "Only" by Morton Feldman at the Grand Theatre, Groningen, Holland.
Joan La Barbara performing John Cage's "Aria" with Merce Cunningham's new choreography "XOVER" at Theatre National de Toulouse, France.
Joan La Barbara performing "Three Voices" and "Only" by Morton Feldman at the Muziekgebouw in Amsterdam, Holland.
Joan La Barbara performing John Cage's "Aria" with Merce Cunningham's new choreography "XOVER" at Concertgebouw, Bruges, Belgium.
Joan La Barbara performing music by Cage, Brown and Feldman at Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, Portugal in conjunction with Robert Rauschenberg show.
November 3
Joan La Barbara will perform her work at Roulette @ Location One; concert will be filmed for Roulette's television broadcast series.
Joan La Barbara performing in concert music by Morton Subotnick at NYU/Frederick Loewe Theater, 8 PM, 35 W. 4th Street, NYC.
Joan La Barbara will perform her works "Circular Song" and "In the Shadow and Act of the Haunting Place" in her new orchestration for Ne(x)tworks at The Kitchen. Her scores for these works will be on display in The Kitchen's graphic scores exhibition opening September 8 through October 20, 512 W. 19th Street, NYC.
"Aria" and "XOVER" - Premiere of Merce Cunningham's new choreography with sets by Robert Rauschenberg and music by John Cage performed by Joan La Barbara: Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire.
September 14-18
Joan La Barbara with Jane Comfort & Co. rehearsals, w-i-p performance of "An American Rendition" at SUNY/Oswego.
"Angels Passing" La Barbara's work for live voice and 16-channel/16-speaker array received a repeat performance at Issue
Project Room in Brooklyn.
Joan La Barbara's "l'albero dalle foglie azzurre" (tree of blue leaves) for solo oboe and sonic atmosphere performed by Melanie Feld at "Notable Women: A Celebration of Women Composers" with the Orchestra of St. Luke's at the Chelsea Art Museum (16th), NYC, and the Dia Beacon (17th).
June 10, 17, 24
Ne(x)tworks residency at The Stone, NYC, 8 & 10 pm. La Barbara's work "In the Shadow and Act of the Haunting Place" received its New York premiere in a new orchestration for Ne(x)tworks on June 24.
May 30 - June 4
Joan La Barbara performing Robert Ashley's "Celestial Excursions" at Holland Festival
May 12
"Angels Passing" A new Joan La Barbara work at Issue Project Room in Brooklyn (16-channel/16-speaker array performance).
"Fleeting Thoughts: Mr. Henderson's 3AM" a collaboration between choreographer Jane Comfort and composer Joan La Barbara will be presented at University of California at Riverside., with Jane Comfort and Company.
April 17
Ne(x)tworks concert of music by Earle Brown, celebrating the CD/DVD release of "Tracer" (Mode 179), 8PM at Chelsea Art Museum, 556 West 22nd Street, New York City.
March 23-30
Institute for Living Voice in Buenos Aires: La Barbara will conduct a workshop on contemporary composition and extended vocal techniques and perform music by La Barbara and Subotnick in two concerts, sponsored by CETC.
March 14-16
Joan La Barbara and Tom Chiu, artists in residence at University of North Florida, Master Classes on March 14 & 15, and concert March 15, featuring works by Berio, Cage, Chiu, Dodge, Feldman, La Barbara, Subotnick and Scelsi.
March 1-3
La Barbara will be featured composer at SFIFEM, Santa Fe Electronic Music Festival.
February 23-28
Sub-Tropics festival, featuring music by John Cage and Earle Brown, Miami, FL.
January 15-21
La Barbara will appear in premiere of Robert Ashley's new opera, "Concrete" at La Mama, in New York.
2006
December 17
La Barbara performs the solo aria in Cage's Four Walls with Aki Takahashi, pianist
Ronda de Valencia nº 2 Madrid
December 16
La Barbara presents an all-Cage recital in Madrid, Spain, assisted by percussionist Miguel Bernat, sponsored by musicadhoy.
Ronda de Valencia nº 2 Madrid
For more information see: http://www.musicadhoy.com
December 8
Ne(x)tworks performs music by Christopher McIntyre 8:30 PM, at Roulette/Location One, NYC.
November 17
Joan La Barbara and Tom Chiu (1st violinist, Flux Quartet) will present a duo recital at Williams College Brooks-Rogers Recital Hall, featuring works by Berio, Chiu, Dodge, La Barbara, Perez-Velasquez, Subotnick and Xenakis.
November 11
La Barbara and Ne(x)tworks perform John Cage's "Variations II" 6 PM, at Brooklyn Lyceum, 4th Avenue & President St., Brooklyn, NY.
October 20
La Barbara performs the title role in Kenji Bunch's "Confessions of the Woman in the Dunes" at Issue Project, 400 Carroll Street, Brooklyn, NY, 8 PM.
Taumalipas International Arts Festival: Six performances of La Barbara's music from "ShamanSong" for Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company's "Incense".
September 30
La Barbara appears in Robert Ashley's opera "Celestial Excursions" at Venice Biennale, Teatro Piccolo Arsenale.
September 21
La Barbara sings early works of Cage, Feldman, Meredith Monk and her own Circular Song at the MATA benefit, 6:30 pm, Paula Cooper Gallery, 521 West 21st Street, upstairs.
September 18
Joan La Barbara and Jane Comfort honored at the First Collaboration Awards of The Coalition of Professional Women in the Arts & Media at the historic Cherry Lane Theatre, New York.
September 9
La Barbara's work will be featured at the Washington Square Festival, 1-4PM, Washington Square Park, New York City.
Poland's "American Day" festival: Two performances of La Barbara's music "Landscape over Zero" and "Desert Myths" for Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company's "American Landscapes": "Landscape over Zero" and "Isle of Dunes".
12th Silesian Dance Company's International Dance Festival in Krakow and Bytom, Poland: two performances of La Barbara's music from "ShamanSong" for Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company' s "Incense".
June 10
Opera America's Composer/Librettist workshop featured composers Paul Dresher, Jake Heggie, Joan La Barbara, conductors Michael Morgan and Sara Jobin, and librettist Gene Schee.
June 7
Nex(x)tworks in residence at Issue Project, Brooklyn unveils a new program of works ranging from the "classic" avant garde to the contemporary.
May 17
Nex(x)tworks in residence at Issue Project, Brooklyn features excerpts from LaBarbara's opera in-progress “WoolfSong.”
April 29
La Barbara's scores “Landscape over Zero” and premieres “Deserts” with Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company and Ne(x)tworks, at NJPAC (New Jersey Performing Arts Complex, Newark).
April 19
Nex(x)tworks in residence at Issue Project, Brooklyn features excerpts from Kenji Bunch's opera in-progress “Woman in the Dunes.”
April 12
La Barbara performs an excerpt from “WoolfSong,” an opera in-progress, with the Juilliard Electric Ensemble.
March 23
La Barbara performs works by David Behrman at Greenwich House, Barrow Street, NYC.
March 22
Nex(x)tworks at Issue Project, Brooklyn features new music written for the ensemble by members Cornelius Dufallo and Christopher McIntyre
March 16-19
Premiere of "Fleeting Thoughts," a new work by Jane Comfort and Company with live music by Joan La Barbara. 8pm, St. Mark's Danspace, New York.
January 19
Composer/Performers Joan La Barbara, John King and Todd Reynolds perform their music at Symphony Space's Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theater, 8 PM.
2005
November 19 and 20
Public spaces within the Museum: RELAY.
La Barbara performs with Enso New Music Group members in the galleries at New York City's Museum of Modern Art. For this music event celebrating the one-year anniversary of MoMA's reopening, thirteen improvising musicians circulate throughout the Museum, performing in three different spaces within the building, sculpting the sounds within an environment, encouraging the public to view the art in a subtly different context and to ponder the possible relationships between the sounds, the visual art, and the space.
3 - 5PM, Museum of Modern Art, NYC.
Museum of Modern Art
November 18
"Fleeting Thoughts " work-in-progress performance of new work by Jane Comfort and Company with live music by Joan La Barbara at 8PM in Pearson-Hall Theater, Lang Performing Arts Center, Swarthmore College.
October 4
La Barbara discusses her opera in-progress "WoolfSong." Composers Forum at NYU's Black Box Theater, 7pm.
September 17 - 24
La Barbara gives a workshop on New Opera at the International Summer Academy KlangKunstBuehne at the Universitaet der Kuenste Berlin.The workshop will explore the borders between music, theater and the visual arts while broadening the experience of participants through cross-disciplinary collaboration. Participants will be encouraged to leave comfortable ground behind and to stretch their imaginations through active generation of new work. The workshop is open to artists from all disciplines: dancers, singers, choreographers, directors, composers, artists and video artists alike.
May 6 & 7
"Landscape over Zero" - premiere of La Barbara's new score for Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company, featuring Ne(x)tworks, at Gerald W. Lynch Theater at 8PM, John Jay College (899 10th Avenue, NY).
April 22
"L'albero dalle foglie azzurre" (tree of blue leaves), La Barbara's composition for solo oboe and electronic atmosphere will be performed by Josiane N Henry of the Juilliard Electric Ensemble, for "Beyond the Machine 3", a festival of electronic and interactive music at The Allen Room @ Jazz at 8PM, Lincoln Center (5th floor, Time Warner Center, Broadway @ 60th Street).
April 20
Joan La Barbara "Atmospheres" on Roulette at Location One concert series, 20 Greene St. in SoHo - La Barbara's compositions explore the myriad colors of her voice over textured sonic atmospheres, spinning shapes through space in a series of new soundances, and sound paintings. 8:30 P.M.
April 19
"L'albero dalle foglie azzurre" (tree of blue leaves), La Barbara's composition for solo oboe and electronic atmosphere will be performed by Josiane N Henry of the Juilliard Electric Ensemble, for "Beyond the Machine 3", a festival of electronic and interactive music at Chelsea Art Museum (8PM, 556 W. 22nd St at 11th Avenue, NYC)
April 10
La Barbara hosts Insights at the American Music Center, featuring composer John Corigliano: 4PM, Sunday, April 10, 2005.
March 22
La Barbara will perform "The Waves" at a special concert honoring the composer Charles Dodge at the CUNY Graduate Center (7PM, 365 Fifth Avenue, between 34th & 35thSt, NYC).
March 6
La Barbara hosts Insights at the American Music Center, featuring composer Julia Wolfe: 2PM, Sunday, March 6, 2005.
March 3
La Barbara performs Neil Rolnick's "Body Work", Interpretations series at Merkin Hall, NYC
2004
November 30
La Barbara premieres a new work composed for her by Orlando Jacinto Garcia as part of EMF 10 series at the Peter Norton Symphony Space (Leonard Nimoy Thalia). 8PM, Broadway and 95th Street.
Peter Norton Symphony Space (Leonard Nimoy Thalia)
November 20
Ne(x)tworks will be performing classic graphic scores by John Cage, Earle Brown and Morton Feldman as well as "A Dark Line" (an excerpt from La Barbara's opera in-progress "WoolfSong") and works by Dufallo and Bunch at Tenri Cultural Institute of New York, 43A West 13th Street (between 5th & 6th Avenues)
November 20
La Barbara hosts Insights at the American Music Center, featuring composer Tan Dun: 2PM, Saturday, November 20, 2004.
November 13
La Barbara hosts Insights at the American Music Center, featuring composer John Adams.
November 6
Robert Ashley's "Celestial Excursions" in Muenster, Germany.
November 3
Robert Ashley's "Celestial Excursions" in Vilnius, Lithuania.
October 26
Poetry International Festival 2004; Messa di Voce collaboration by singer/composers Joan La Barbara and Jaap Blonk and software programmer/designers Tmema - Golan Levin and Zach Lieberman: the concert performance in which the speech, shouts and songs produced by a pair of composer/performers who specialize in abstract vocal sound are visualized in projected graphics through interactive software.
October 25
Poetry International Festival 2004; Joan La Barbara performs "73 Poems" (her collaboration with text-artist Kenneth Goldsmith) in the Purcell Room at Royal Festival Hall in London.
www.rfh.org.uk
October 14-17
Sounds Like Now Festival: "Revelations in the Wind" an excerpt from "WoolfSong" La Barbara's opera-in-progress was featured on Sunday, October 17 at La Mama Theatre on East 4th Street, New York City, performed by La Barbara and the ensemble Ne(x)tworks.
October 11
Joan La Barbara's opera in-progress, "WoolfSong" will be presented at NYU's Frederick Loewe Theatre, 35 W. 4th St. in NYC, with live interactive videoscapes by Kurt Ralske and performers including Joan La Barbara and musicians from Ne(x)tworks.
June 4
Locrian Chamber Players gives World Premiere of La Barbara's work "Snowbird's Dance, Into the Light and Beyond" for voice, flute and string quartet, with La Barbara - guest artist at Riverside Church, NYC. Also Greg Hesselink and La Barbara perform New York premiere of La Barbara's "A Trail of Indeterminate Light" for cello and voice.
May 28
Ne(x)tworks performs "Elements of Isolation", excerpts of Joan La Barbara's new opera (in-progress) "WoolfSong" atIssue Project Room in NYC.
May 23
Ne(x)tworks will be performing excerpts of Joan La Barbara's new opera, "WoolfSong" as well as works by members of the ensemble.5 PM at The Bowery Poetry Club.
May 11
Ne(x)tworks performs "Elements of Isolation", excerpts of Joan La Barbara's new opera (in-progress) "WoolfSong" at Bowery Poetry Club in NYC.
May 1
La Barbara hosts Insights at the American Music Center, featuring composer Carl Stone in discussion of his laptop performances and works with instruments and electronics.
April 10
La Barbara hosts Insights at the American Music Center, featuring composer Ikue Mori in discussion of her works for drum machine, laptop and collaborations with other artists.
March 20
La Barbara hosts Insights at the American Music Center, featuring composer Paul Lansky in discussion of his methods of composing with computers, instruments, voices and household sounds.
March 9 & 10
Music by John Cage performed by HERMESensemble with Joan La Barbara, guest artist de Singel, Antwerpen, Belgium.
February 21
La Barbara hosts Insights at the American Music Center, featuring composer Christian Marclay in discussion of his installations and the intersection between visual art and sound.
February 14
La Barbara hosts Insights at the American Music Center, featuring composer Morton Subotnick in discussion of his CD-ROM composing programs for children and his works for interactive media.
February 7
La Barbara hosts Insights at the American Music Center, featuring composer Alvin Lucier in discussion of his work with acoustics, blending science with art, exploring sonic phenomena and installations.
January 28
A performance of works by La Barbara, Neil Rolnick and David Behrman performed by the composers, with David Gibson, cello at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, NY.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)
January 9 & 10
On Friday, Jan. 9th at 8pm, JLB gives a solo recital for the 2003 NATS (National Association of Teachers of Singing) Winter Workshop at Florida International University, Miami, FL. The program, entitled New Music for Voice: Traditional to Experimental Works, features works by Luciano Berio, Earle Brown, John Cage, Morton Feldman, Orlando Jacinto Garcia, La Barbara, Alvin Lucier and Morton Subotnick.
Saturday the 10th, from 1:45-3PM at FIU, La Barbara gives a Master Class on introduction to extended vocal techniques.
NATS (National Association of Teachers of Singing)
2003
December 4-7 and 11-14
Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company at Baruch College featuring "Incense" with music from "ShamanSong" by La Barbara (performing live w/cd) "Unbroken Thread" with music by Jason Hwang and "Rain" with music by Sainkho Namtchylak.
Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company
Baruch College
December 3
Berio Sequenza Extravaganza; La Barbara performs Berio "Sequenza III" and her work Conversations at The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America at Columbia University.
November 29
Messa di Voce travels to Huddersfield, England for a performance during the Ultrasound 2003 Festival held at the Huddersfield Art Museum.
November 7 & 8
Labarbara rejoins Jaap Blonk and Tmema in London for performances of Messa di Voce at the Institute for Contemporary Arts.
Institute for Contemporary Arts (ICA).
October 25 & 26
La Barbara is Series Director and Performer - When Morty met John festival at Zankel Hall, Carnegie Hall, NYC.
October 3 & 4
Joan is doing two concerts at the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton. Music by Cage, Feldman, La Barbara and Wolff, and featuring Margaret Leng Tan on Oct 10.
September 6-11
Ars Electronica; La Barbara collaborates with vocalist Jaap Blonk and software art duo Tmema (Golan Levin and Zachary Lieberman) on the world premiere of Messa di Voce, a performance utilizing Tmema's custom interactive sound visualization software that radically augments Blonk and Labarbara's vocalizations in real time, Linz, Austria.
Golan Levin
June 3 - 5
La BArbara performs at a mini-festival at the Chelsea Art Museum
Tuesday, June 3
Words; Featuring Chris Man, Plato Songs, Many Times Chris (by Joel Chadabe), and Joan La Barbara/Kenneth Goldsmith
73 Poems
Wednesday, June 4
Ne(x)tworks, performance of original works by members of the group, including previews of new operas by Joan La Barbara and Kenji Bunch.
Thursday, June 5
LaBarbara performs at the Alvin Lucier Retrospective, featuring Wavesongs, Bird and Person Dyning, Music for Solo Performer, and Dissappearances.
May 10
Insights - La Barbara hosts composer Robert Ashley in discussions of his operas, at The American Music Center, NYC.
May 3
Insights - La Barbara hosts composer Meredith Monk in discussions of her operas, at The American Music Center, NYC.
May 1
La Barbara creates the role of Amelia Earhart in the concert version of Patricia Burgess new opera "Reflections on the Watermoon" for Interpretations series at Merkin Concert Hall, NYC.
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April 26
La Barbara hosts Insights at the American Music Center, featuring composer John Harbison in discussion of his operas.
April 9-12, 16-19
Performances of Robert Ashley's Celestial Excursions at The Kitchen, NYC.
March 28 & 29
On the 28th, La Barbara performs Three Voices composed for her by Morton Feldman at Radar Festival in Mexico City. La Barbara gives a vocal workshop at Radar on the 29th.
March 22 (World Premiere), March 24 & 25
Robert Ashley's Celestial Excursions at Berlin/Hebbel Theater.
March 12-14
La Barbara performs La Barbara a work composed for her by Larry Austin at SEAMUS festival in Tempe, AZ.
February 8
La Barbara hosts Insights , a series of discussions with composers of contemporary "opera" at the American Music Center, NYC. The first installment features Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho in discussion of her opera L'Amour de Loin.
2002
December 13
Open Aspects Ensemble with Joan La Barbara Greenwich House, 8 PM Concert performance "December 1952" and other graphic scores by Earle Brown.
December 12
Open Aspects Ensemble with Joan La Barbara, guest artist Taplin Auditorium at Fine Hall, Princeton University, 8PM Concert performance "December 1952" and other graphic scores by Earle Brown.
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