Sound Paintings
Joan La Barbara
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Urban Tropics | Joan La Barbara | 14:13 | Album Only | View In iTunes |
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Shadow Song | Joan La Barbara | 5:09 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Time(d) Trials and Unscheduled Events | Joan La Barbara | 12:25 | Album Only | View In iTunes |
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Erin | Joan La Barbara | 6:56 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Klee Alee | Joan La Barbara | 16:09 | Album Only | View In iTunes |
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Berliner Träume | Joan La Barbara | 16:21 | Album Only | View In iTunes |
| Total: 6 Songs |
Album Review
Extended vocal techniques (circular breathing, multiphonics like that in Buddhist chant, imitation of environmental sounds, speech just on the edge of comprehensibility, etc.) multi-tracked into some beautiful pieces...esp. liked "Erin."..on a photograph of an Irish child with his father's coffin...and "Klee Alee.".inspired by the imagery of Paul Klee's paintings and the squiggles and brushstrokes when viewed close-up. ~ "Blue" Gene Tyranny, Rovi
Biography
Born: June 8, 1947 in Philadelphia, PA
Genre: Classical
Years Active: '70s, '80s, '90s
Virtuoso vocalist Joan La Barbara has explored the possibilities of voice and extended techniques such as multiphonics and glottal clicks since the '70s. She has performed with orchestras all over the world, from the New York Philharmonic to the Orchestra of the Hague, and has premiered operas including Robert Ashley's Now Eleanor's Idea and Jacob's Room by Morton Subotnick, with whom La Barbara cowrote The Misfortune of the Immortals. This piece (also co-written by Mark Coniglio) is an example of...
Full BioTop Albums and Songs By Joan La Barbara
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Voice, Violin And Piano | Only (Works for Voice and Instruments) | 5:14 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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The Wondeful Widow of Eighteen Springs | Singing Through | 2:41 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Forever and Sunsmell | Singing Through | 5:09 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Shadow Song | Sound Paintings | 5:09 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Only | Only (Works for Voice and Instruments) | 1:32 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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A Flower | Singing Through | 3:31 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Slow Waltz and Ending | Three Voices for Joan La Barbara | 6:20 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Whisper | Three Voices for Joan La Barbara | 2:28 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Snow Falls | Three Voices for Joan La Barbara | 2:23 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Slow Waltz | Three Voices for Joan La Barbara | 5:07 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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- $9.99
- Genres: Electronic, Music, Classical, Alternative, Modern Composition, Avant-Garde
- Released: Dec 01, 1990
- ℗ 1990 Lovely Music, Ltd.
