BONNIE BARNETT
and THE BARNETT BAND



The BARNETT BAND's strength lies in building structures and creating ensemble timbres. The resulting sound often grooves, always excites, and sometimes takes the listener to the outer reaches of musical experiment.

The BARNETT BAND is a favorite at the legendary New Music Mondays Series at the Alligator Lounge in Santa Monica, and regularly tours throughout California and the East Coast. DELAY IN GRAVITY, the Band's first CD release, on Nine Winds Records, was issued in November 1993 and has collected worldwide rave reviews.

A recent notable performance was the March 31, 1995 TRANS JAM, the first transcontinental, videophone-linked jazz performance, achieved in collaboration with The Electronic Cafe International and The Kitchen. Members of the Barnett Band, and the East-Coast based Barnett Quartet, played together simultaneously in Santa Monica and New York. This pioneer effort was funded by The Kitchen, and was part of their Feminine Instincts Festival.

The BARNETT BAND has collaborated on numerous other occasions with The Electronic Cafe, connecting via videophone with performers and audiences in New York, Toronto, Paris, Tokyo, Santa Fe, and San Francisco.


BONNIE BARNETT
vocals

contact: 12712 Emelita St., North Hollywood, CA 91607 tel:818/980-3704

PERFORMANCE ENSEMBLES:
1992-present BARNETT BAND, with Richard Wood, Hannes Giger, Jim Connolly and Richie West (Los Angeles)

1992-present THE ZONE, a Zurich-based ensemble, with Hermann Buhler and Marino Pliakas (Zurich, Switzerland)

Barnett is also the composer of the TUNNEL HUMs, notable participatory vocal events, in which the public is invited to come together to sing in resonant environments. In addition she hosts two avant-garde music radio programs in the Los Angeles area, Echoes From A Deep Planet (KPFK, 90.7 FM) and Trilogy (KXLU, 88.9 FM).

Barnett was born in Chicago in 1947, studied at the University of Illinois (B.S., Music Education, 1968) and with Kenneth Gaburo, Pauline Oliveros and Robert Erickson at the University of California, San Diego (M.A., 1972), focusing on vocal multiphonics and ethnic sources thereof. Since 1981 Barnett has produced 64 TUNNEL HUMs, including a collaboration with The Electronic Cafe in 1992, SANTA MONICA/PARIS HUMMING (MURMURANT), which connected singers in the U.S. and France. Her paper, "Aspects of Vocal Multiphonics," appeared in Interface, Journal of New Music Research (Amsterdam and Ghent, 1977); "Live Radio Art" appeared in the Whole Earth Review (Sausalito, Winter 1987); "Vibration Is Movement" was published in MUSICWORKS 55 (Toronto, Spring 1993); and a partial reprint thereof, "Vibration Is Movement, Movement Is Change" appeared in the Anthology of North American Ideophonics, (Minneapolis, Winter 1994). She produced a video documentary, The Tunnel Hum Project (available on VHS), and appears on the CD DICE, a collaboration of women musicians (1994). She will also appear on DICE II, to be released in October 1996.


Members of the BARNETT BAND

RICHARD WOOD alto sax, flute, clarinet

PERFORMANCE ENSEMBLES:
1993-present AND NOW ENSEMBLE
1995-present member of MAHACUISINARTE, with Jeff Kaiser, trumpet, James Connolly, bass and Richie West, drums (Ventura)

Woodís encyclopedic awareness of the fullness of the history of jazz lends an unparalleled richness to his improvisational talents. His sense of humor and wit round out this wildly expressive musical personality.

HANNES GIGER bass

PERFORMANCE ENSEMBLES:
1994-present GIANT ANT FARM
1996-present NON CREDO, with Joe Berardi and Kira Vollman
Giger is a rockclimbing bass player from Switzerland performing at the crossroads of sounds, images and text. He toured Europe with the Giant Ant Farm in 1995, and will embark on their ë96 European tour in October of 1996.

JIM CONNOLLY bass

PERFORMANCE ENSEMBLES:
1993-present GOVE COUNTY PHILHARMONIC
1994-present AVANT GARDENERS
1991-present QUEEN MAB

Connolly has been playing bass for decades, and enjoys the avant-garde, straight ahead jazz and even Irish folk music genres. Composer/founder of the Gove County Philharmonic, he is an integral part of the Santa Barbara scene, including work with the Lit Moon Theatre Company. He reknown has now spread down to Los Angeles County, requiring him to drive long hours to keep Southern California musicians happy.

RICHIE WEST drums

PERFORMANCE ENSEMBLES:
1995-present THE RICHIE WEST TRIO, with Woody Aplanalp and Jason Chesney.
1995-present MAHACUISINARTE, with Jeff Kaiser, Richard Wood and James Connolly.

West is a composer, improviser and poet originally from Los Angeles, who spent time in the wilds of Santa Cruz and performs regularly with improvisers from all over California as well as New York.


BONNIE BARNETT & RICHARD WOOD
vocal & woodwind duo

BONNIE BARNETT vocals
RICHARD WOOD woodwinds


contact: 12712 Emelita St., North Hollywood, CA 91607 tel:818/980-3704


BONNIE BARNETT is a vocalist, teacher, composer of the TUNNEL HUMs (public participatory vocal events), writer and band leader. She works with the BARNETT BAND in southern California, the BARNETT QUARTET in New York, and THE ZONE in Switzerland. Her Nine Winds CD, DELAY IN GRAVITY, was released in November of l993 and has been receiving enthusiastic reviews worldwide. The BARNETT BAND made a tour in California in 1994 and again in July of 1995, including the production of SUMMER HUMMING, Barnettís 58th HUM, and THE ZONE performed at the Knitting Factory in New York and in the San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles in October of '94. In March of 1995 she produced TRANS JAM, a videophone-linked musical improvisation in collaboration with the Electronic Cafe International. The BARNETT BAND in Santa Monica improvised with the BARNETT QUARTET in New York, seeing and hearing each other through videophone technology; audiences in both sites enjoyed the total ensemble.

RICHARD WOOD is a jazz composer, a woodwind player (alto sax, clarinets, flutes) and band leader. He founded the AND NOW ENSEMBLE, which features all original compositions, blending spontaneity within a context of the New Orleans marching band milieu and Ivesian polytonality. Wood plays in the Barnett Band and Jeff Kaiserís Ventura, CA ensemble MAHACUISINARTE. His San Francisco ensemble, BRUJERIA, was a pioneer group in the realm of improvised music in the 1970ís. Studies included work with Bobby Bradford, Red Callender, G. S. Sachdev and Togi Shanabu.


BARNETT and WOOD are setting up European concert dates for 1997-1998.
Contact Barnett at 12712 Emelita Street, North Hollywood, CA 91607 USA; tel:818/980-3704


AND NOW ENSEMBLE

The AND NOW ENSEMBLE features all original compositions, which blend spontaneity within a context of the New Orleans marching band milieu and Ivesian polytonality. Incorporating influences of music from around the world and the roots of American music, AND NOW compositions are used as springboards for the exploration of new sonic frontiers.

The AND NOW ENSEMBLE is a favorite at the legendary New Music Mondays Series at the Alligator Lounge in Santa Monica, and the group also plays other local venues.

 

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