fantastic ! love so much this minimalism !

A meditation on two archival recordings, 'Zulu's Ball' by King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band in 1923, and a 1948 interview with Helen Keller and her assistant Polly Thompson by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Peter McGregor on the occasion of Keller's 1948 tour of Australia.  Also features a recording from around 1976 of Clara Rockmore playing Tchaikovsky's 'Valse Sentimentale' on the theremin, an instrument played without touch. Tony Baldwin as narrator.

From Scratch (Fidelity)

Old Woman Tossed Up In A blanket

Song from my art residency in India in Feb 2016

India - Nightfishing

BFTV - Chinstroke Room

Pontins Like You've Never Heard it Before - Toilet Flush

From album 'TRACED', Pattern 04, Sonic Pieces, 2017

Traced

Post Human

Short excerpt from the three hour long performance "Time Dilation" in Manor Park, as part of the Hither Green Festival. Some 30 plus musicians.
Binaural recording by Tom White whose sculptures can also be heard.
Photo by Mark Pringle

Drone Processional and Sound Sculptures - Binaural Recording

Art Song meets Pop

Who has seen the White Peacock
in the pale and misty morning?
Across the trees he glides
beyond our lives.
He brings
messages of lovers far away.
Messages that vanish into day.
aeae aeae
Messages from friends
that left us far too soon.
They are looking for you.
They will love you
Forever.

White Peacock

Nº4
Kranky records
https://christinavantzou.bandcamp.com/album/no-4
www.kranky.net
RELEASED APRIL 6, 2018

1.  Glissando for Bodies and Machines in Space 
2. Percussion in Nonspace 
3. At Dawn 
4. Doorway 
5. Some Limited and Waning Memory 
6. No.4 String Quartet 	
7.  Staircases
8. Sound House
9. Lava 
10. Garden of Forking Paths 
11.  Remote Polyphony ft. Steve Hauschildt

Nº4

Kiek Pasaulių
prišaukia tamsą
kaip mėnulio
liudytoją
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Lidija Šimkutė
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How Many Worlds
invoke darkness
to witness
the moon


Recorded by the Ligeti Quartet in CeNMas, Sheffield - workshop recording

Awarded the Geddes Peterson Foundation Award 2019
http://www.newfoundsound.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/GeddesPetersonFoundation_Award_2019_BenLunn.pdf

Kiek Pasaulių (2018)

Featured on Earlid's 5th annual Liminal Sounds Listening vault exhibition: http://www.earlid.org/posts/evanesce/

A close relative retreated to New Zealand a decade ago. The pace of life is slower, and nature is everywhere. On our last visit, we camped on lake Manapouri in fjordland in the South Island. The dawn chorus was incredible. Bell birds, Tui, Grey Warblers and Fantails sang through the thin morning air and into my dreams.
We meet numerous ex-pats starting families, businesses and enjoying refuge from the overcrowding and pressures of European life.  The human population of New Zealand has doubled in the last 50 years 
But since humans came, the bird populations have decreased by almost 75%.
On arriving in the South Island in the 1770’s Captain Cook recorded the bird song as ‘deafening’.  
Now 153 species out of 200 are threatened with extinction. 
I have layered field recordings of the Manapouri dawn chorus to recreate how they might have sounded 250 years ago. The bell bird in particular, has a beautiful, almost metallic alien song.
The end of the piece returns to my original recording which reflects a stark, sad decline.
As humans retreat into nature, birds and other wildlife are forced into nonexistence.
Photo: Lake Manapouri, New Zealand

Manapouri Ghost Birds

info@loubarnell.co.uk || @LouBarnell

Lou Barnell is a London born movement and sound artist. An explosion of material sonic experimentation, intense visuals and brutalist visceral choreography. Lou creates scores as physical traces with sensory tests and materials, extended vocal techniques, wearable sound-materials and biorhythmic sensors. Lou is currently undertaking a period of research and development into dreams, embodied listening and materials funded by Arts Council England
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Manapouri Ghost Birds

Lou Barnell

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