Weston Olencki, brass
Charmaine Lee, voice
Bernardo Barros, electronics
Dré Hočevar, drums 
Elias Stemeseder, piano
Michael Foster, reeds

Mixing and editing: Dré Hočevar

New York, November 11 and 12, 2016

sextet

Gnarwhallaby Ensemble
gnarwhallaby.com

bernardobarros.com




catastrophe

Ibrasotope [ibr48], São Paulo, Brazil

Bernardo Barros (electronics)
Manu Falleiros (baritone saxophone)
Mário del Nunzio (electric guitar)
Rodrigo Montoya (shamisen)


Quartet Barros,Falleiros,Montoya,Nunzio 2014-01-17

Ibrasotope, São Paulo, March 7 2014

Abdul Moimême (prepared guitar)
Bernardo Barros (electronics)
Carlos Zingaro (violin)
João Pedro Viegas (bass clarinet)
Márcio Gibson (percussion)
Mário Del Nunzio (electric guitar)


Sextet Moimeme,Zingaro,Barros,Viegas,Gibson,Nunzio 2014-03-07a

São Paulo, April 12, 2014

Bernardo Barros (electronics)
Mário del Nunzio (electric guitar)


Duo Bernardo Barros & Mario del Nunzio 20140412

Bernardo Barros (live electronics)
Marcela Lucatelli (voice)    
July 2014, São Paulo         
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Bernardo Barros & Marcela Lucatelli 20140716a

spill [piano, cello, saxophone, percussion]
for Vertixe Sonora ensemble

June 25, 2014 :: Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

performers: Pablo Coello (saxophone), Thomas Piel (violoncello), David Durán (piano), Diego Ventoso (percussion)

spill

Jess Aslan (electronics) 
Bernardo Barros (electronics)
Emma Lloyd (violin)
Feb 20th, 2015 - IEM, Graz, Austria

atual

I dedicate this rap to André 3000. a giant


Cache crash, hash-tag gash in my attention span, I'm slashed, Bandwidth crammed, damned, slammed—I'm the lag, the drag, the man Who can't stand but still stands in line for the timeline's design, Sign in, sign off, sign away—I'm assigned to the grind, resigned.
Swipe right for the fight, swipe left for what's left of my head, Fed threads, spread dread, bread-dead, living off likes instead, Instead of breaking bread, I'm breaking bad, breaking down each breakdown, Shakedown in a takedown, fake-crown on a playground, stay down.
Bit-rot in my thought-slot, caught hot, screenshot my blind spot, Mind's not mine, it's a time-slot, prime-time crime, I'm fine—I'm not, Bot-talk, tick-tock, grid-lock, my heart's a stopped clock—tick... stop, Wrist-watch my wrist-cuts from the handcuffs of the non-stop.
Dopamine dealing, feeling nothing, reeling, wheeling through the ceiling, Stealing feelings from the feed to feed the needing—bleeding, kneeling, To the algorithm's rhythm, prison-prism, schism-wisdom, system's Got me twisted, listed, fisted—I existed, now I'm grifted.
 Double-tap to tap out, mapped out, slapped down, capped out, Clapped out, rapped out, trapped out—I'm a mapped route, apt doubt, Screen-time crime-scene, lime-green online, I'm offline when I'm online, Mainline the main-feed, brain-bleed, I'm a shrine to the decline.
Verification falsification, validation's just vibration, Notification suffocation, conversation's automation, Nation of the stationary, scary how we're voluntary Solitary, commentary, legendary sedentary cemetery.
Black mirror, crack clearer, track nearer to the back-error, Stack terror, hack bearer, fact-checker checking back never, Sever the tether? Better remember I'm the member who surrendered, Rendered in the blender, sender, lender of my temper to the vendor.
Thumb-numb, dumb-sum of the outcome, I'm undone, outdone, Shotgun to my attention, mention tension? I'm the one who spun, Run the simulation, stimulation, stipulation, situation's Just a mutation, computation of my own participation.
 Scroll-toll, soul-hole, control-console controlling my whole role, Parole from the patrol, extol the protocol, alcohol in my thumb-scroll, Every poll a bullet-hole, glory-hole for my story-hole, Forty-fold manifold, I'm sold, cold, old before I'm told I'm old.
Metadata predator, data-trader, infiltrator, commentator, Spectator of my own creator, violator, simulator, Later, hater, crater where my gray-matter was fatter, Scatter, shatter, flatter, chatter doesn't matter—splatter.
Infinite scroll through the infinite hole of my infinite soul, Control-alt-delete but I can't complete the compete to delete, Repeat, entreat, mistreat, deadbeat heartbeat, can't meet the feat, Seat myself in the heat-death defeat, concrete under my feet.

NULL / SKULL

“Wags” – No Names, All Flame [excerpt]

Scroll Toll

November 6th, Friday, NYU, New York
Takao Hyakutome (violin)
Joan Bagés i Rubí (electronics)
Jaime Oliver (electronics)
Bernardo Barros (electronics)

Takao-Bages-Oliver-Barros 20151106

November 6th, Friday, NYU, New York
Takao Hyakutome (violin)
Jaime Oliver (electronics)
Bernardo Barros (electronics)

Takao-Oliver-Barros 20151106

broken 
--for two pianists and two percussionists 
--first performance: yarn|wire, New York, April 16, 2016

--

« That’s how it came about, but more disturbingly, more electrically, more fantastically. I will never know how to talk about it. It seethed, it froze. Furious, impetuous, tense, immobile, explosive, before me, for me, through me. The disturbance was great. The void was immense. There was intensity, there was paroxysm, there was dislocation, there were many minuscule sabotages, there was disorganization. However, there was always a very strained organization in the background, ready to burst. In the meantime, incredibly present. In its element, a formidable demonstration of the prodigious life of the mental state that could not stop. And yet it stopped. In the most abstract way, all of a sudden, sometimes an element, rarely the most important one, hung in abseil of a memory-situation or several pictures in a row as though ricocheting, suddenly talking indecipherable non-sequiturs, striking and empty, nonsense that astounds and usurps. Displaced. Diverted. A mirror broken a thousand times, frightened, listening. Not wanting to be lost. Never quite submerged. Shot in the head. Silent fire of photons. I know now. I know. The line that perverts, that drags you along. I know. pf pf pf pf pf. Thought stoppers, particles of momentum. » – fragments adapted from Henri Michaux’s Paix dans les brisements and Vigies sur Cibles.


BROKEN

attrito

music for amplified ensemble and electronic sounds

Text: Giuseppe Ungaretti

Performed by International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE)
April 12th, 2018. Abrons Arts Center, New York 

Video: https://vimeo.com/268033663

Alice Teyssier (flutes and voice) 
David Fulmer (conductor)
Garreth Flowers (flügelhorn)
Josh Modney (violin and viola) 
Levy Lorenzo (percussion) 
Lizzie Burns (double bass)
Ryan Muncy (alto saxophone)

Yi-Wen Lai-Tremewan (sound engineer)
Bernardo Barros (live electronics)

attrito

Weston Olencki, brass
Charmaine Lee, voice
Bernardo Barros, electronics
Dré Hočevar, drums
Elias Stemeseder, piano
Michael Foster, reeds

Mixing and editing: Dré Hočevar

New York, November 11 and 12, 2016

Surface of Inscription

I’ll run out. I’ll drive myself out of my mind, lacerating myself with despair.

Life needs to be refashioned. Once it’s refashioned— we can sing praises.

Listen, you who have forgotten that the sky is blue

Bourgeois life is more terrible than Wrangle.

Who can control it? You? Go ahead and try…

Weston Olencki, brass
Charmaine Lee, voice
Bernardo Barros, electronics
Dré Hočevar, drums
Elias Stemeseder, piano
Michael Foster, reeds

Recorded at Systems Two Studios, New York, November 11 and 12, 2016

But I won’t doff my cap. We have our pride: we look down on the bourgeoisie.

The proletariat is no fool when it comes to drinking

Emptiness... You’re flying, crashing into stars.

I throw myself into communism from the heavens of poetry

Oh, if only I were poor! Like a billionaire! What’s money to the soul?

And you— could you play a nocturne on a drain-pipe flute?

but no, Mr. Intellectual, you'll fluff up your dirty forelocks

The storms of the revolutionary wombs have quieted

The wall of reason is demolished by panic.

Contradição Paradoxa
for electric guitar & live-electronics
Bernardo Barros & Mário del Nunzio

October, 2007, SESC/Consolação, São Paulo

Contradição Paradoxa

A Posse

de repente
no país do
bacharel de cananéia
dos bacharéis de canudo e
anel no dedo e dos
doutores de borla e capelo
no país dos
coronéis
latifundiários de baraço
e cutelo (melhor
dizendo de serrote elétrico
corta-homens)
de nobres de curul e
pobres no curral
um metalúrgico (sem
anel de grau sem
toga doutoral sem
sabença de papel passado) um
torneiro mecânico
formado na vida
(Severina) assoma
no altiplano de
brasília e toma
posse
da república numa
apoteose de povo
dando novo sentido à palavra
pátria

Poema A Posse, de Haroldo de Campos, foi criado em homenagem à posse de Lula como presidente da República em 2003. Haroldo de Campos morreu em 16 de agosto do mesmo ano de 2003.

Bernardo Barros

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