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/

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

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

Sound installation

I believe that Sound, in a specific environment, can be highly evocative with many layers of meaning. People become part of the installation and interact with it, triggering sounds in an aleatory fashion.

Those sounds are drawn from different places and represent the interferences between my personal sound environment, the sound of my piano and my sound memories. It is also a metaphore of the paradox between artificial, mecanic and natural world.

Resituating them in an enclosed space suggests something of the internal confusion that people experience in life.
Exhibit 08 till the 30th of May, Arts Gallery, 65 Davies street London.

XHIBIT

The private view is tonight!

Yesterday, with the curator and the technician, we found a nice and cosy place for the sound installation, against the wall, in which we made a big hole for the wires.

The speakers are the result of a great collaboration with Catarina Chaby (also student in sound design at LCC).

Read more about our future collaboration on sound installations later, in summer projects.


The installation in itself is invisible, all the equipment is behind the wall, so we keep a bit of the "Mystere". Visitors have access to the "meringue mics" -they are contact mics sheltered in disguise...- they can touch them, walk over them, crush them down (...) and this is how the interaction happens.

Come to the installation to listen to your composition of sounds...

Sound installation

From the 1st of May, you will be able to see and listen to my sound installation at EXHIBIT 08.

"A fresh fusion of raw talent: Yinka Shonibare selects the art students to watch" ...

World renowned artist Yinka Shonibare has selected 41 of the most controversial and exciting new art and design talents from University of the Arts London for a fresh, eclectic exhibition opening at the Arts Gallery on 2 May.

Joining Turner Prize-nominated artist Yinka Shonibare on the selection panel were leading members of the British art and design scene, including Transition Gallery director Cathy Lomax and Moving Brands co-founder James Bull.

In its eleventh year, XHIBIT is a unique annual exhibition featuring artists in perhaps their most experimental and confrontational creative phase. The selection for XHIBIT 08 brings together sound design, film, ceramics, photography, drawing, illustration, product and graphic design, painting, sculpture, animation, and costume design..."


The exhibition will take place for a month from the 2nd of May at the Arts Gallery & Hub Cafe/Bar, University of the Arts London, 65 Davies Street, London W1K 5DA.

Read more, please see the following links:
http://www.spoonfed.co.uk/event/xhibit_1952_20080530_0800,
http://www.artrabbit.com/events/event/5368/xhibit_08

Sound Installation

The sound installation I have been trying to work out, is going to be shown at the University of Arts in Davies st, during EXHIBIT 08.

This project is based on the idea of creating an artificial sound environment made from sounds that I would have recorded. I mean artificial, because the sounds would be broadcasted over loudspeakers in a space that might have nothing to do with the place where they were recorded. The idea is also about creating a paradoxal or even impossible (sound wise) situation, by broadcasting specific sounds from an outdoor space in a closed room, or for example, sounds from an urban scene and sounds from the forest overlapped...

Read more about it later...