Joan La Barbara
Joan Linda Lotz La Barbara (born June 8, 1947) is an American vocalist and composer known for her explorations of non-conventional or "extended" vocal techniques. Considered to be a vocal virtuoso in the field of contemporary music, she is credited with advancing a new vocabulary of vocal sounds including trills, whispers, cries, sighs, inhaled tones, and multiphonics (singing two or more pitches simultaneously).
Genre: experimental, minimalism, avant-garde
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Top Tracks
- Four Walls Act 1 Scene V
- The Perilous Night 5
- The Perilous Night 2
- Four Walls Act 1 Scene VI
- Four Walls Act 1 Scene IV; Dance
- Drumming: Part II - Extract
- The Waves
- Four Walls Act 2 Scene XIII
- Four Walls Act 2 Scene XII
- Four Walls Act 2 Scene XI
- Four Walls Act 2 Scene X
- Four Walls Act 2 Scene IX
- Four Walls Act 1 Scene VIII
- Four Walls Act 1 Scene VII: (Vocal Interlude)
- Four Walls Act 1 Scene III; Dance
- Four Walls Act 1 Scene II
- Four Walls Act 1 Scene I
- The Perilous Night 6
- The Perilous Night 4
- The Perilous Night 3
Albums (26)
- Classical Running (2022)
- DG 120 – Avant-garde (2018)
- Joan La Barbara: Early Immersive Music (2017)
- Minimal Goes Popular - Klassiker der Minimal Music (2017)
- The Debussy Effect (2016)
- La Belleza del Silencio (2012)
- Reich: Drumming (2012)
- Hervig: Off Center / Hibbard: Handwork / Ziolek: Nocturnes / No. 16 (The University of Iowa Center for New Music 25Th Anniversary, 1966-1991) (2011)
- John Cage at Summerstage (2011)
- 111 More Classic Tracks (2010)
- Crosstalk (2009)
- Wolff: Tracer (2007)
- Rolnick, N.: Shadow Quartet (2005)
- Yellow Lounge Vol.3 (2004)
- Reich: Variations; Music for Mallet Instruments; 6 Pianos (2002)
- Subotnick: Electronic Works, Vol. 1 (2001)
- Perigee & Apogee (2001)
- Joan La Barbara: Shamansong (1998)
- Morton Subotnick: And the Butterflies Begin to Sing (1997)
- The Time Is Now. (1970)
- Reich: Six Pianos; Music for Mallet Instruments; Variations for Winds and Strings (1993)
- Any Resemblance Is Purely Coincidental (1970)
- John Cage:The Perilous Night; Four Walls (1991)
- Microtonal Works by Partch, Cage, Labarbara, & Drummond (1991)
- Singing Through (1970)
- Commitment (1976)
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