Monday, February 11, 2008

Two New Media Artist's

I was really inspired by the vocal artist Joan La Barbara. She was educated at Syracuse and New York University. She also attended Tanglewood/ Berkshire. Joan is a composer, vocal artist, and performer. As a sound artist she has broken a lot of boundaries in the art world. She worked as a teacher at university's and colleges.  Joan produced her own radio station "Others Voices, Other Sounds" that is a station of contemporary classical music.  She was an artistic director at Carnegie Hall. Her voice has led to many great opportunities, she has been in films such as "Date with an Angel", "I Still Know What You Did Last Summer", and "Alien: Resurrection".  She has produced many disc's, the songs I heard were of her voice except it was a layered of whispers, clicking, and humming. It was amazing how well it went together. In song number 4 of her 1993 album "73 Poems" it as though she used her animalistic instinct to hiss and buzz, to say so much more.  www.ubu.com/sound/lab.thml As a sound artist, she has used her voice as a painter to your senses. 



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