The sound archiving project

Start of the sound archiving project. Travels around south eastern asia, Thailand, Laos and Vietnam, with collection of sounds, in order to reinterpret them and recreate sound journeys.
More to come soon...

One and other project

"Young people from Brooks Community School have collaborated with artist Larry Achiampong, with assistance from artist Barbara Lambert, to research and create artwork inspired by music that is shared culturally, as part of the One & Other project.
Participants explored what a superhero is? How they came into being? And who can be a superhero? Superheroes were researched in relation to each participants' culture and personal superheroes. They created their own superhero, developing a comic story and sketching out their likeness..."

watch part of the animated videos made by the young participants from Brooks


read more on Iniva's website.

I'm with you vol. 3

On saturday 12th of june 2010, another day of performances and installations, were I did a 4 channel installation, immersing listeners in the greenhouse of a beautiful garden in Clapton. I was playing the sound of my last work, "Two mints in one, Roland et Pierre dans la serre". Creating a harmonical relationship between some of Roland Barthes'text L'Empire des signes, Pierre-Antoine's voice reading it, and improvised musical sentences.

Pictures taken by Pierre-Antoine on the day of the performance, click here to see more of his photographic work.

"‘I’m with you’ is a series of performance events, mostly in houses and gardens but sometimes other types of places. We’re starting to think it has something to do with weirdness, if weird could mean collapsing contingency, necessity, function and awareness. Not quite, but not unrelated to, ‘queer’. We go into someone else’s house and we think: how did it get this way?"


read more on http://imwithyouclapton.wordpress.com/

Find your Talent Visual Arts Consortium Continuing Professional Development for Primary & Secondary Teachers in Tower Hamlets

The aim of the CPD sessions was to introduce the participants to audio installations and sound arts, they were organized in response to Florian Hecker’s show at Chisenhale Gallery and the live art residency

How audio installations and the practice in sound art make people engage into arts, identity issues, language...

read more on the Chisenhale Gallery website

LIVE ART RESIDENCY at Chisenhale Gallery, march 2010

"During her residency, Lambert worked in response to Florian Hecker's exhibition with Year 5 pupils to explore personal sonic snapshots related to memory. Through initial research in the form of sonic walks pupils developed sound awareness, listening techniques and how to sense space through sound rather than visual cues. Following this outing pupils developed personal sound samples using digital software. These sound works then contributed to an interactive and immersive sound installation. The project provided pupils with the opportunity to develop sensitivity to their surroundings and to develop new skills by working collaboratively with a professional artist."

read more and watch the lo-fi documentary, go to Chisenhale Gallery's website

Instead of drowning the cats

The day after the performance at Tate Britain, I went to the studio to play the piano and recorded three sequences of improvisation.
Later, I overlaid them like three different voices confronting each other, creating dissonances, confusion and processed them to reach a certain point of distortion.
piano, synthesis, research RBLKL



listen to "Instead of drowning the cats"

Edgar on a CD...

After the performance of "Edgar", we decided to publish the work, rearranged it and recorded it for mastering.

Le printemps d'Edgar

March 2010, performance at Goldsmiths College.
"Edgar, l'enfant du placard", a piece of sound composed and prepared for live improvisation.
Ross Downes was playing the guitar, processing its sounds, while I was manipulating a MAX msp patch on my computer, generating synthesis and triggering samples of field recordings.


RD/BL
listen to "Edgar, l'enfant du placard"

Then 2010 Jam in the dark at the Tate Britain...

Late at Tate Britain: February: Afrodizzia

Larry Achiampong Lemme skool you (1 of 9) 2007 © The artist

Join artist Larry Achiampong and his band for a jam session with a difference; taking place over three hours in an darkened space, Jam in the Dark is a heightened sensory experience and a whole new way to listen to music.

With Kimathi Donkor, Kunal Patel, Sharon Dabrowa, Roi Driscoll, Ben Youngman and Barbara Lambert.

Also in the Manton Foyer watch Nothingness into Somethingness (2010), part two of a film series by artist Larry Achiampong, in which he describes “when

artists make nothing and describe it as something”, inspired by and responding to Jam in the Dark. Sound by Larry Achiampong and Barbara
Lambert.

in Maastricht, beginning of the winter...

In december, piece of sound, during the show (Un)easy together hosted by HEDAH art center in Maastricht David Ferrando Giraut, Perpetuum Mobile (2008) Opening: 6 December 16.00h, at 16.30h a performance by Theo Cowley Exhibition: Sunday 6 December - Sunday 31 January Open: Friday - Sunday 13h-17h (or by appointment, mail to: info@hedah.nl ) With: Theo Cowley, Laurent David, David Ferrando-Giraut, Norbert Grunschel, Andrew Hollis, Barbara Lambert, Marlieke Meyer, Olga Raciborska, Hannes Ribarits, Marthe Sophie and others. Curated by Agata Jastrzabek

et puis un CD...

Beginning of fall 2009, release of a 2 tracks CD, "instead of killing myself I (27.14)" and "instead of that (26.28)"

listening on www.myspace.com/barbaralenvers

Once upon a time in the west, in October...

One saturday night, beginning of October, Mayola Manor, Clapton, London, a night of performances, I'm with you curated and hosted by Johanna Lindsey and Christa Holka.

In the garden, the same speaker cables that were used previously in the forest, for some obscure recordings, were installed and hung to the branches of the bushes. I tried to write the words "instead of killing me..." using cable-ties for speaker-cable letters.

Then, I tried to hide a pair of speakers in the bushes, at the entrance of the garden.

In a boite camouflee, connected through the speaker-cable letters, an audio system playing the piano piece "instead of killing myself", creating a specific atmosphere, some kind of pre-contextualisation, un avant-gout of the performances.

after the summer

Instead of..., is the pursuit of happiness into piano improvisations arranged with other "environments sonores conflictuels" (series of recordings for research on the exploration of melancolie expressed through sound or acoutisc landscapes.

chapter 1,"instead of killing myself"

recordings from the "piano a la maison, recherche BFCL" (aout 2009) and from different installations of speaker cables in Epping Forest (september 2009),

listening on www.myspace.com/barbaralenvers

same moment, same place...

the idea of sound workshops was in my mind, a way to develop sound awareness within a larger audience. At Iniva, as part of the public program related to the exhibition "Liminal: a question of position", in collaboration with Obinna Nwosu and under the name of (blon)ds we initiated a series of workshops related to local sound environment, sound recordings and music production. The first of them, Intermezzo, was about feeding an interactive sound installation with the sounds the participants would have recorded previously on different locations.

The activity of the collective (blon)ds is documented in their blog.

Once upon a time in London, winter 2009

The work on the sound design for the video installation TOTAL STATION, started when Rob Rainbow, one of the artists involved in the project, gave me Mieko Shimizu's sound files to listen to.

I had to create a link between the sounds and the visitors interacting with the video piece. The

se samples were composed of synthesis, sound situations recorded in train stations, urban atmospheric moments processed into harmonic voices.

Using sensors at the bottom of the four screens, I decided that the presence of the visitor in front of the screen would trigger the different types of sounds. With the idea in mind to keep a certain poetry in the landscape, adding a random sound narrative to the visuals and bringing out alterations to the urban continuity.

"A proximity detecting installation where Rivington Place becomes an optical instrument through which the wider city can be seen".

Rob Rainbow, TOTAL STATION, video installation during Liminal, curated by Iniva (Institute of international visual arts).

Piezzo Landscape

Some pictures, taken by Pierre-Antoine Delpino, of the sound installation presented during the Rivington Place invigilators' show.

The idea is to make the visitor interacting with a physical object, that is triggering sounds broadcasted into the exhibition space. The visitor becomes part of the installation as an actor and a listener.

In this installation, 80 different samples of sounds can be triggered. They are the result of one year of recording since my father died, the 20th of december 2007, all drawn from my affected sound environment and sound memories. Some of the sound are my father's own recordings, where we can hear him play the tuba and talk.

The visitors can create their own soundscape as a threnody, a journey through a long and confused grief.
Recordings will be taking place on the 11th of december from 6 - 8pm and a copy on CD will be given on demand.

To my dad, the musician and the artist.

Rivington Place invigilators' show

Rivington Place invigilators' Show 2008 is a showcase of selected work by its staff members. We invite you to visit this exciting exhibition including photography, painting, drawing, sculpture, mosaic and sound installation.

Gwenan Elisa Davies, Lorenzo Durantini, Bern Roche Farelly, Christa Holka, Barbara Lambert, Erin O'Connor, Iva Pietrova, Olga Raciborska, Iri Rocha da Cruz, Ryoko Takahashi and Caroline Tobin. Curated by Lora Rempel.

Education Space
Rivington Place
London
EC2A 3BA
www.rivingtonplace.org

Opening times:
5 - 13 December 2008
Wednesday to Saturday 12pm - 6 pm

MANTA RAY

Here is a feeling of my Londonian summer...


During her MA Fine Arts degree show, Eugenia Emets has presented an installation crossing over 3D animation, holographic projection and multi-channel diffusion sound.




This project saw the beginning of a collaboration between Eugenia Emets (photographer, visual artist), Perseus Mandillo (3D artist) and Barbara Lambert (sound artist).

"Darkness is the necessary condition of the holographic effect that can be achieved in this project: the viewer cannot see the screen and the boundaries of the space are vague (due to the fact that the walls, the floor and the ceiling are black). The “object” is literally hanging in space like a hologram across the black background of the space."
Extract from Vesica Piscis script, written by Eugenia Emets.



Picture of the space on the 7th floor of the Central Saint Martins College, before the transparent foil screen was installed.





The sound produced for the video is based on a triangle of composition. The first element is the sound of a tuba that was processed through granulation synthesis; then the recordings of the exhibition space with contact microphones disposed on the noisiest wall of the room and the recordings of Eugenia's breathing.
The idea was to give life to a shape evolving in the dark through the relationship between a specific space -the sound I could get out of it-, a musical instrument -used as a harmonic ground- and human presence -expressed through breathing-.




Manta Ray, 2:36'. Sound by Barbara Lambert

End of year show at LCC

wednesday 11th june
drinks from 6 pm
programme from 7pm

Media School
London College of Communication
Elephant & Castle

LONDON SE1 6SB

The corrupted role of the musician

...The last aspect of this compositional process that really grabbed my attention was the fact that the traditional role of the musician is totally corrupted. The musician has to let the instrument play on its own, still he will act on the shape of the Theremin's sound. Then, becomes a very careful listener when he records the environmental and the instrumental sounds. After, he becomes a technician when he switches on the machines and an explorer when he has to set up this installation in the forest...
Have a look at the installation through this short video composed of raw footages mixed with some birds and wind sounds...