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

http://loubarnell.co.uk/TERRESTRIAL-CIRCUITS

A live sound installation and participatory composition made from the rhythms of our wiring inside and out.

Terrestrial circuits carry electronic communications across the earth and through our bodies. Wires connecting our veins, soil, blood and brain, are in constant flux, as we grow new webs of communication made of plastic, sinew and flesh.

I placed a mobile phone disguised as a landline on a coffee table, in the South East London home of curator Yuying Yang, for an open house exhibition named ‘Spring Cleaning’.

SCORE:
-       When the telephone rings, answer it.
-	Listen with your whole body. 
-       Listen to  the sounds around you and the sounds in your body.
-	Respond to the call using words or sounds.
-	Doodle, draw or write thoughts on this note pad if you wish.

TERRESTRIAL CIRCUITS

Terrestrial Circuits

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)

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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