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Patrick David BarberLink to home page : Patrick David Barber  Biography: As a composer and performer, I am interested in the displacement of sound into new contexts and environments.Since moving to the Bay Area in June of 2000, I have worked with the dance ensemble Body Cartography in their 2001 Sutro Baths piece and in their 2002 Chapel of the Chimes piece. Check out their work at www.bodycartography.org. I have also performed in pieces directed by composers Merlin Coleman and Kathy Kennedy. From 1998 to 2000, in Seattle, I worked as a vocalist with a group of players who performed game pieces for improvisors, including John Zorn's "COBRA" as well as compositions by Seattle composers, such as Stuart McLeod's "Pulse/Impulse" and Robert Henson's "Graffika." For information about this music, check out www.sil2k.org. I also participated in several presentations of "Co-Brew," a collaborative performance combining John Zorn's COBRA for musicians and Lisa Nelson's "Tuning Score" for dancers. In 1996 and 1997 I worked as a vocalist with Amy Denio and Christian Asplund on their theatrical/experimental opera works: Denio's "Non Lo So, Polo" and Asplund's "The Archivist." From 1991 to 1997 I played in the improvised/new music band Blowhole and was one of the band's archivists/sound-compilers. From 1989 to 1997 I operated the tape/record label Apraxia, releasing a lot of cassettes, several 7" eps and two CDs, all of improvised and new composed music. As a composer I have created tape compositions, performance constructs, and sound/video works of collage poetry, under my own name and also as Lab Rat. Thanks to the Bay Area Improvisers Network for providing this resource. I may be contacted at patrick@pdbd.com CDs on which Patrick David Barber appears:
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