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Joan La Barbara performing "ROTHKO"
at Roulette/Location One
November 3, 2007
[video: Kurt Ralske]
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Joan La Barbara performing "ROTHKO"
at Roulette/Location One
November 3, 2007
[video: Kurt Ralske]
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Joan La Barbara performing "Shimmer"
at Roulette/Location One
November 3, 2007
[video: Kurt Ralske]
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Joan La Barbara performing "Shimmer"
at Roulette/Location One
November 3, 2007
[video: Kurt Ralske]
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Joan La Barbara performing "ROTHKO"
at Roulette/Location One
November 3, 2007
[video: Kurt Ralske]
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Joan La Barbara in Greenwich
Village, NYC, October 2004
[photo: Jeffrey Herman]
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Joan La Barbara in Greenwich
Village, NYC, October 2004
[photo: Jeffrey Herman]
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[photo:
Julie Graber, 2002]
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Joan
La Barbara
(kneeling by tape deck
and light panning device)
during performance of "CYCLONE
Con(s)t(r)ained" at P.S.
1, Long Island City, 1977.
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[photo:
Roberto Massoti, 1976]
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[photo:
Roberto Massoti, 1976]
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[photo:
Roberto Massoti, 1976]
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[photo: Roberto Massoti,
1976]
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Roberto Massoti, 1976] |
Staten
Island photo shows Dana
Reitz (L), Phill Niblock
(C), Joan La Barbara (R)
in preparation to film
work-in-progress rehearsal
of "An Exploration in Vocal
Sound and Movement" at
Staten Island Community
College, summer, 1975 |
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[photo:
Chris Corrie, March 2002]
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[photo: Chris Corrie,
March 2002]
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Hall premiere of Steve
Reich's "Drumming" 1971,
NYC. Left to right, Jay
Clayton (L), Joan La Barbara(C),
Judith Sherman (R) |
From
performance at Cologne
Kunst Markt (or Art Fair),
1974 with members of Philip
Glass Ensemble: closest
to camera - Joan La Barbara,
to her right is Dickie
(or Richard) Landry, next
to him (mostly hidden)
is Richard Peck and farthest
from camera is Jon Gibson |
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David Tudor's Rainforest
performance April 19, 1975
at The Kitchen (59 Wooster
Street). Tom Johnson is
in foreground with back
to camera, I am facing
camera, both listening
to hoop; in background
at right is Laurie Speigel.
[photo: Kathy Landman]
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Photo
taken in live performance
at a space called Environ,
December 1975 at premiere
of my collaboration with
Dana Reitz, "An Exploration
in Vocal Sound and Movement".
[Photo : Mary Lucier]
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Gordon
Mumma (playing horn)
and me barefoot (seems
the way I was doing things
those days), rehearsing
David Behrman's "Rebus" in
Cunninghman studio at Westbeth,
summer 1974 prior to our
performances in Paris for
Festival d'Automne.
[Photo : Mary Lucier]
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JLB
w/David Tudor, Paris 1974
There is a series of 3
photos [Photo: Horace]
I sang in Tudor's "Rain
Forest" at
l'Espace Cardin, Autumn,
1974. In this one, the
performance, David is at
the table with electronics
and I am sitting on a low
cushion singing into a
microphone. David is sending
my voice to various objects
in the Rain Forest. |
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Rehearsing "Still and
Moving Lines in Families
of Hyperbolas" Cunningham
Studios, NYC, 1974.
[Photo
: Mary Lucier]
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Performance in LA, 1984
[photo: Debbie Richardson]
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Warren
Smith, Joan La Barbara,
Bruce Ditmas performing
La Barbara's "Thunder" at
The Kitchen, 1976.
[photo : Mary Lucier]
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Joan
La Barbara & Dana
Reitz performing "A Collaboration
in Vocal Sound and Movement",
Environ NYC 1975.
[photo: Mary Lucier]
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Joan
La Barbara & Dana
Reitz performing "A Collaboration
in Vocal Sound and Movement",
Environ NYC 1975.
[photo: Mary Lucier]
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Joan
La Barbara & Dana
Reitz performing "A Collaboration
in Vocal Sound and Movement",
Environ NYC 1975.
[photo: Mary Lucier]
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| Joan
La Barbara rehearsing Earle
Brown's "Windsor Jambs" with
20th Century Players at
California Institute of
the Arts, Valencia. circa
1981 |
Joan
La Barbara interview with
Nina Melis, NYC 1975.
[photo: Nina Melis] |
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Joan La Barbara interview
for Avalanche magazine
Soho Rooftop, 1973.
[photo: Gwenn Thomas]
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Joan
La Barbara interview
for Avalanche magazine
Soho Rooftop, 1973.
[photo: Gwenn Thomas]
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Joan
La Barbara & Jon Gibson
at David Tudor's "Rainforest".
l'Espace Cardin, Paris
(1974)
[photo: Horace]
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Joan
La Barbara performing
Alvin Lucier's "Still and
Moving Lines of Silence
in Families of Hyperbolas" at
the Kitchen, 1975.
[photo: Mary Lucier]
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Joan
La Barbara in performnce
of her work "12 for 5
in 8" (1979) at CalArts
Contemporary Music Festival,
with members of the extended
vocal techniques ensemble
from San Diego.
[photo : Dennis Gilbert]
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Joan
La Barbara in performance
at LA Theatre Center
(3/3/86) of her work "Winds
of the Canyon" with sets
by visual artist Lita
Albuquerque (standing
in shadow at left).
[photo: Debbie Richardson]
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John
Adams & Joan La Barbara
at Betty Freeman's Music
Room, LA. November 7,
1982.
[photo: Betty Freeman]
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Joan
La Barbara w/ Conlon Nancarrow
at Betty Freeman's Musical
Soiree, LA, 1985.
[photo: Betty Freeman] |
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| Portrait
by Betty Freeman 1985 |
David
is giving me instructions
and explanations of where
the sounds will be sent
in performance of "Rain
Forest" (l'Espace
Cardin, Paris, Autumn,
1974)
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Joan & Nicholas
Slonimsky at Betty Freeman's
Musical Soiree, 1983
[photo: Betty Freeman] |
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Biography
