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	Joan La Barbara: Composer as Performer
		La Barbara estimates that over the course of a year, the concerts will be half her work, half other composers.
		The glare of the spotlight is hard to resist and La Barbara could have easily pictured herself spending the rest of her life performing pieces of other composers and never getting any of her own work done.
		One of La Barbara's big goals these days is to get most of her work recorded and released on CD and get it all down somehow on paper so that her works can be continued to be performed after she's gone.
	www.wfmu.org /~kennyg/popular/articles/la_barbara.html (1111 words)

	John Schaefer "Preface to the Music"
		La Barbara, after all, has interpreted and performed many of the works of the late John Cage, whose scores often consisted of verses, words, and even single letters derived by chance operations from various texts--and to whom, appropriately, she has dedicated this piece.
		La Barbara's potent combination of vocal and studio expertise makes it possible for her to represent in music some of the most distinctive features of Goldsmith's texts.
		La Barbara represents Goldsmith's insistent use of certain vowels with a specific group of vocal sounds that repeat in an almost mantra-like fashion.
	epc.buffalo.edu /authors/goldsmith/schaefer.html (649 words)

	Monica Gazzo - press release
		Joan La Barbara is a well known avant- garde vocalist and composer whose work has been presented internationally.
		Joan La Barbara's work explores the spectral possibilities of the human voice as a multifaceted instrument in solo and ensemble music, art performance, mixed media works and with electronics.
		La Barbara has won numerous awards and honors for her work including seven National Endowment for the Arts fellowships (in Visual Arts, Music Composition, Recording, Opera/Musical Theater, Solo Recitalist and Inter-Arts programs), radio commissions in Europe and America and a composer-in-residency from the DAAD Berliner Kunstler program.
	www.artawakening.com /monicagazzo/press.html (1216 words)

	CDeMUSIC: Joan La Barbara (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Joan La Barbara is a well known composer, sound artist, and celebrated new music vocalist.
		She composes for voice, instruments, electronics, presents workshops on extended vocal techniques, and she is currently composing an opera inspired by the life and work of Virginia Woolf.
		La Barbara currently lives in New York City and travels widely, performing and presenting her music.
	www.cdemusic.org /artists/labarbara.html (145 words)

	The American Music Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Joan La Barbara's career as a composer/performer/sound artist explores the human voice as a multi-faceted instrument, expanding traditional boundaries in compositions for multiple voices, chamber ensemble, music theater, orchestra and interactive technology, using a unique vocabulary of vocal techniques -- multiphonics, circular singing, ululation, and glottal clicks -- that have become her "signature sounds.".
		La Barbara served on the faculties of California Institute of the Arts, Hochschule der Künst in Berlin, The College of Santa Fe and the University of New Mexico, as well as maintaining a private studio.
		La Barbara is Director of the Carnegie Hall series, "When Morty met John...", focusing on the music of John Cage and Morton Feldman, which premiered February 9-11, 2001, continued April 12-14, 2002, and culminates October 25 and 26, 2003, in Carnegie's new Zankel Hall.
	www.amc.net /resources/pdp/insights_2003_labarbara.html (581 words)

	Bosma: Female Authorial Voices In Electrovocal Music
		La Barbara: The Name, The Sounds, The Music (1991) by Larry Austin is another electroacoustic composition with female voice by a male composer.
		On the tape, La Barbara's voice sounds are treated so that they keep their own character: the electronic processing stresses the richness of these sounds and does not destroy or overwhelm La Barbara's voice.
		Joan La Barbara is object of this composition, and subject in the composition.
	www.comatonse.com /writings/bosma4.html (2924 words)

	New Albion Artists: Joan La Barbara
		La Barbara has collaborated on interdisciplinary projects with various visual artists, including Lita Albuquerque, Judy Chicago, Kenneth Goldsmith, Steina and Woody Vasulka, and has completed two Meet The Composer/Reader's Digest commissions from The Gregg Smith Singers, I Cantori and The Center for Contemporary Arts in Santa Fe for a large-scale choral work.
		Soprano La Barbara premiered Morton Subotnick's opera "Jacob's Room" directed by Herbert Blau for the American Music Theatre Festival, New York premiere at The Kitchen and European premiere at MANCA Festival in Nice (1993-94) and premiered Robert Ashley's quartet of operas "Now Eleanor's Idea" (1994).
		La Barbara was educated at Syracuse and New York Universities, studying with Helen Boatwright, Phyllis Curtin and Marian Szekeley-Freschi.
	www.newalbion.com /artists/labarbaraj (395 words)

	CDeMUSIC
		The singers and speakers are Robert Ashley, Sam Ashley, Thomas Buckner, Jacqueline Humbert, and Joan La Barbara.
		We quote Gramophone: "Joan La Barbara's soprano voice (in triplicate) has the freshness and clarity of a frosty morning, and the three lines congeal into chords of an icy coolness, pure-toned and precisely tuned, a joy to witness....
		Joan La Barbara's vocal-and-electronic settings of Kenneth Goldsmith's 73-part poem are warm and inviting.
	www.cdemusic.org /store/cde_search.cfm?keywords=labarbaracds1 (592 words)

	Mike Silverton on "73 Poems"
		Needless to mention, transitions of sight to sound are composer-performer La Barbara's doing, likewise the electronic transformations of many, but not all, of these seventy-nine tracks (with an acknowledgment of assistance from Michael Hoenig and Bradford Ellis).
		Goldsmith remarks that from the thirty-ninth poem-drawing on, La Barbara's having agreed to do a version for the ear influenced the project's outcome.
		I'm not saying anything particularly daring: La Barbara commands a sizable CDiscography, with more recordings certain to appear, thanks in irreplaceable part to labels like Lovely that even in these, for art especially, hardscrabble times keep to their difficult course.
	wings.buffalo.edu /epc/authors/goldsmith/silverton.html (588 words)

	Amazon.com: Morton Feldman: Three Voices for Joan La Barbara: Music: Morton Feldman,Joan La Barbara (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Written for Joan La Barbara, the work is scored for one singer and two taped singers and sets a fragment of a poem by Frank O'Hara.
		La Barbara is a definitive performer of this piece, after all.
		La Barbara initially refused to perform it at that tempo, arguing (rightly so) that it would be virtually impossible to sing even ONE line for 90 minutes, let alone three.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000000R2G?v=glance (1041 words)

	The Deep Listening® Catalog - JOAN LA BARBARA
		A "sound painting", in the style of some of La Barbara's multi-track vocal works, in which extended vocal techniques are applied to other instruments in the ensemble.
		For voice alone; La Barbara's seminal étude on the circular breathing/circular singing technique she developed.
		Joan La Barbara has been called one of the great vocal virtuosas of our time.
	www.deeplistening.org /dlc/50labar.html (459 words)

	Aquarius Records: Search Results for Keyword: Labavoiccd
		Lovely has done a good thing and reissued some classic Joan La Barbara recordings from the seventies along with some rarities from the eighties to boot.
		Not only can she boast a lengthy career as one of the top vocal performers in the avant garde and a strong resume of academic compositions, but she's even got a film credit as the voice of one of the evil baby aliens in Alien Resurrection.
		La Barbara's vocalizations range from slow hooting glissandos like a breathing exercise gone awry to feral animal-esque growls.
	www.aquariusrecords.org /bin/search.cgi/keyword=labavoiccd (327 words)

	Newsroom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		La Barbara will perform a solo outdoor concert on October 4 at 7:00 p.m., in the Institute’s Birch Garden.
		Joan La Barbara explores the traditional boundaries of the human voice, creating works for multiple voices, chamber ensembles, orchestra, and interactive technology.
		In addition to “Three Voices for Joan La Barbara by Morton Feldman,” and “Joan La Barbara Singing Through John Cage” on New Albion, and “Joan La Barbara /Sound Paintings” on Lovely Music, she has recorded for, among other labels, Deutsche Grammophon, Elektra-Nonesuch, New World, and Sony.
	www.ias.edu /Newsroom/announcements/Uploads/view.php?cmd=view&id=17 (779 words)

	Messa di Voce - Tmema / Blonk / La Barbara
		The performers adopt complementary roles: Joan, as a peculiar kind of animal; and Jaap, as an abstract narrator.
		Messa di Voce has been exhibited both as a performance, featuring the collaboration of vocalist-composers Jaap Blonk and Joan La Barbara, and also as a standalone interactive installation, in which select software modules are made available for public play.
		Joan La Barbara [CV] has been called one of the great vocal virtuosas of our time.
	tmema.org /messa/messa.html (1488 words)

	[deep-l] Lucier retro (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Three=20 exceptional concerts with Chris Mann, Joel Chadabe, Joan La Barbara,=20 Kenneth Goldsmith, Ne(x)tworks, and Alvin Lucier.
		Joan La Barbara and Kenneth=20 Goldsmith's '73 Poems': timbral settings and transformations of=20 Goldsmith's words.
		Ne(x)tworks, a new group of performing=20 composers, presents a program of original electro-acoustic music,=20 including previews of two new operas by Kenji Bunch and Joan La=20 Barbara in addition to works by other members of the group.
	www.deeplistening.org /pipermail/deep-l/2003-May/006804.html (230 words)

	Open Directory - Arts:Music:Composition:Composers:L (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Born in 1947 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, La Barbara is an experimentalist using the human voice, instruments, and interactive technology both as a composer and a performer.
		French composer Jean-Benjamin de La Borde (1734-1794) was also a violinist and a student of older music.
		He was a close friend of composer Jan Ladislav Dussek, who wrote Elegie harmonique sur la mort de Prince Louis Ferdinand de Prusse upon the Prince's death, as well as of Louis Spohr and Johann.
	dmoz.org /Arts/Music/Composition/Composers/L/desc.html (8879 words)

	Amazon.com: Only: Works for Voice and Instruments by Morton Feldman: Music: Erika Duke Kirkpatrick,Stephen ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Joan La Barbara has long been associated with Morton Feldman, having performed many of his works (in fact, many of Feldman's works have been written with La Barbara in mind).
		La Barbara's earlier tribute to Feldman, Three Voices.
		What may be missed from the live interaction of the musicians is compensated for by the lovely sound of her voice echoing over and over again in the piece.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000000R49?v=glance (1303 words)

	REDCAT: About - Media/Press Room:
		A recording of Joan La Barbara reading the 24 phrases of the poem is the source material from which the score was created.
		A chamber version of that piece was premiered in Santa Fe, N.M. Jacob's Room is a monodrama composed for the Kronos Quartet and Joan La Barbara, which received its premiere in San Francisco.
		Hungers, for Joan La Barbara, computers, video, instrumental ensemble and dancer, was completed in collaboration with video artist Ed Emshwiller and commissioned by and premiered at the Los Angeles Festival.
	redcat.org /about/press/10.29.03subotnickmartin.html (819 words)

	Gassmann Electronic Music Series 97-98
		The 1997-1998 season features appearances by such outstanding and renowned composers/performers/programmers as David Cope, Mark Dresser, Daniel Koppelman, Joan La Barbara, George Lewis, Denman Maroney, Laetitia Sonami, John Stevens, Morton Subotnick, and Matthias Ziegler; visiting artists and scholars such as Harold Cohen, Robert Winter, and David Zicarelli; and UCI professors Cornelia Fales and Christopher Dobrian.
		Informally Yours, MORTON SUBOTNICK and JOAN LA BARBARA
		The appearances by Morton Subotnick and Joan La Barbara are funded primarily by the Orange County Performing Arts Center.
	music.arts.uci.edu /dobrian/gemseries97-98.htm (294 words)

	Joyce - Music: John Cage's "Wonderful Widow"
		Notice that the title of the song, "The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs," occurs in the original text, but is not found in the lyrics of the song itself.
		Joan La Barbara's version lets in more light, she touches the words with more feeling if perhaps less precision; and the piano seems more present: it is "played" faster, louder, and with more regularity.
		However, as the La Barbara disc also contains "Nacht Upon Nowth," it may be more attractive to a Joyce enthusiast; but I feel the Hillier disc is more varied, and musically speaking it represents the stronger overall selection.
	www.themodernword.com /joyce/music/cage_widow.html (688 words)

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		by Steina in collaboration with Joan La Barbara.
		Singer/composer Joan La Barbara performs a series of voice chants and intonations, creating energized patterns on a grid of horizontal lines that recalls a musical scale.
		This animated line pattern, vibrating and dancing to the energy generated by La Barbara's voice, is inscribed onto moving imagery of the Southwest landscape.
	www.eai.org /eai/tape.jsp?itemID=1567 (105 words)

	CalArts Spring Music Festival - The Vocal Music of Alvin Lucier (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Joan La Barbara - Thomas Buckner - Sam Ashley - Jacqueline Humbert
		Enticing musical metaphors inspired by the sonic poetry Lucier hears in natural acoustic phenomena; settings for voices and resonant chambers performed by guest artists, Joan La Barbara, Thomas Buckner, Sam Ashley and Jacqueline Humbert.
		La Barbara and Buckner will also be in residence at CalArts.
	shoko.calarts.edu /smf98/lucier/collide.pl (121 words)

	Symphony Space
		His works and arrangements for Ethel have received critical acclaim, and he sites as his influences his masterful colleagues in the performance and compositional world with whom he¹s worked closely. Todd¹s music is informed by his love of technology and information and myriad styles and genres.
		Joan La Barbara was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Music Composition in 2004 to begin development of her opera, "WoolfSong".
		John King has recently received commissions from RED {an orchestra}, The Albany Symphony's "Dogs of Desire", and the Stuttgart Ballet. The solo pieces that will be presented on Jan. 19th will be expanded for an evening length piece commissioned by the Mannheim Ballet to be premiered in May 2006.
	www.symphonyspace.org /genres/eventPage.php?genreId=1&eventId=1360 (398 words)

	Morton Subotnick - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Morton Subotnick (born April 13, 1933) is an American composer of minimal electronic music, best known for his Silver Apples of the Moon, the first electronic work commissioned by a record company, Nonesuch, and composed on the Buchla modular synthesizer which he helped to design.
		Subotnick has also worked extensively with interactive electronics and multi-media, co-founding the San Francisco Tape Music Center with Ramon Sender, and often collaborating with his wife Joan La Barbara.
		From Moog to Mark II, to MIDI to MAX By Kyle Gann for American Public Media
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Morton_Subotnick (150 words)

	Artist Page
		Todd Reynolds's violin virtuosity is an easy winner in Fiddle Faddle, and Joan La Barbara brings her unique vocal elegance to questions about your body which you always wondered, but never thought to ask.
		There is something really disconcerting about hearing Joan La Barbara sing the line "Are boobs just mostly fat?" over and over again to a melody somewhat reminiscent of Steve Reich's tune for Wittgenstein's sentence "How small a thought it takes to fill a whole life" in Proverb.
		The words Neil Rolnick chooses for his 2004 composition Body Work, however, are not a major philosophic pronouncement but rather the first of series of questions posed by students in University of Portland professor Terry Favero's biology class published in the November 2003 edition of Harper's Magazine.
	innova.mu /artist1.asp?skuID=225 (881 words)

	Arts Electric Presents Lucier, La Barbara, Chadabe :: NetNewMusic :: New Music Now! The Contemporary Music Portal - The ...
		Three exceptional concerts with Chris Mann, Joel Chadabe, Joan La Barbara, Kenneth Goldsmith, Ne(x)tworks, and Alvin Lucier.
		Joan La Barbara and Kenneth Goldsmith's '73 Poems': timbral settings and transformations of Goldsmith's words.
		Ne(x)tworks, a new group of performing composers, presents a program of original electro-acoustic music, including previews of two new operas by Kenji Bunch and Joan La Barbara in addition to works by other members of the group.
	netnewmusic.net /modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=215 (237 words)

	Joan La Barbara : 73 Poems (Texts by Kenneth Goldsmith) - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
		Joan La Barbara : 73 Poems (Texts by Kenneth Goldsmith)
		A beautiful collaboration with both the musical setting and the poems created for the most part at the same time.
		La Barbara's voice is multi-tracked and her composition and vocal techniques responsive to both the meaningful content and the physical character of the words, for example, a tone-cluster for a towering wall.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,197539,00.html (174 words)

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