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| photo by Lewis deSoto, wind tunnel at MIT |
Barbara Held is a flutist, composer and sound artist who lives in Barcelona, Spain. She has commissioned and performed an idiosyncratic body of new repertoire for flute by both Spanish and American composers, including Alvin Lucier’s “Self Portrait”, a series of scores by Yasunao Tone, and early film and performance work with Carles Santos and poet Joan Brossa. Her work has been moving outside of concert time; she has a continuing interest in composing with sound and image, and performs with live video artists including Ursula Scherrer and Francesca Llopis as well as creating sound for installation pieces by visual artists such as Paloma Navares and Eugenia Balcells. She was the creator and producer of “Music at Metrónom”, a series of concerts of experimental music that gave special support to collaboration between musicians and visual artists, co-curator of “Possibility of Action; the life of the score” for the Documentation Center and Archive of the Barcelona MACBA museum of contemporary art during the 2008-09 season, and “Lines of Sight”, a series of seven programs of experimental music and radio art for radio web macba. Current projects include a video installation called “al barjaj” with Toni Serra based on his exploration of the old city of Fez, and “State of the Sea” for the Floating Points festival at Issue Project Room in New York.
A piece about "the mysterious architecture of the formative process" for flute and 15 channel sound, commissioned by the Zeppelin Festival in Barcelona, and last performed at the Floating Points Festival curated by Stephan Moore at Issue Project Room, New York, 7/22/10
Singing Flames
A Philosopher's Organ or Singing Flames apparatus on loan from a private 19th century laboratory in Barcelona, part of a performance by Barbara Held, flutist, with live video by Benton Bainbridge and Nancy Meli Walker at the Mercat de les Flors. Dedicated to my friend Phill Niblock.
documentary video, Adolf Alcañiz
