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Charlie Barber

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Charlie Barber has a deserved reputation for staging strikingly innovative concerts and events of new music juxtaposed with dance, music theatre and cinema. He has successfully toured these productions with various ensembles – not only around the UK, but also in Europe, Asia and America.
His recent performance and touring programmes include:
KITSCH'N'SYNC - a club-style event with musicians, dancers, video and DJs (March 2001)
AFRODISIAC - a multimedia event of Afro-latino music with live band, dancers, drummers, breakdancers, street performers, video and live art (October 2003)
LUDWIG - a tribute to Beethoven in music and film (February 2006).
He has also written music to be performed live with classics of early silent cinema including:
THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER (Jean Epstein, France 1928)
MOULIN ROUGE (Ewald André Dupont, UK 1928)
BLOOD OF A POET (Jean Cocteau, France 1930)

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 16/02/2007
Band Website: www.soundaffairs.co.uk
Influences: Guillaume de Machaut
Indonesian gamelan
Kurt Weill
Christoph W v Gluck
David Byrne
Lou Harrison
Ghanian drumming
Laura Nyro
The Lost Jockey
Joe Dallesandro
John Cage
Bisso Na Bisso
Alban Berg
Conlon Nancarrow
Jim Morrison (The Doors)
Qawwali music
Moondog
Orishas
Edgard Varèse
Velvet Underground
minimalism
Brian Eno
Bertolt Brecht
Henry Purcell
Algerian raï
Robert Moran
African mbira music
Ludwig van Beethoven
Andy Warhol
Erik Satie
Sounds Like: Current projects:

BREAKBEATS

- breakdancers from URBAN CREW and musicians from RAW GOODS
A multimedia event incorporating urban culture and contemporary performing arts. HipHop producers DJ Jaffa, Optimas Prime and DJ Keltech have also collaborated with Charlie on new music for the performance. Visuals designed by widelode

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Slow Tempo Nine Zero

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Brakelights

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LUDWIG

- a tribute to Beethoven in music & film
Performed by a chamber orchestra of twelve musicians, the concert features several works inspired by Beethoven's ‘apotheosis of the dance’ Symphony No 7 created by some of the most exciting composers working today: Graham Fitkin, Robert Moran, Orlando Gough as well as Charlie Barber. The programme also includes Ludwig Van, a surreal fantasy in film made in 1970 by Mauricio Kagel, as well as new video art from widelode

Glass Harmonica

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Dead White European Male

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BALI TO NEW YORK

- a journey from Indonesian gamelan to downtown Manhattan
Programme includes Balinese Ceremonial Music by Colin McPhee, Fifth Simfony by Lou Harrison and music by Steve Reich, John Cage and Charlie Barber performed by 2 pianos and 4 percussionists

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Record Label: Sound Affairs
Type of Label: Indie

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