19 Jul Diane Barbé
Festival ROTA – June 2024
Diane Barbé explores the intersections of ecology and experimental music, working with field recording as much as with synthesis, flutes and acoustic instruments. Her work delves into the manifold practices of musicking, crafting acoustic instruments with salvaged materials, developing ensembles of non-musicians in various countries and holding space for alternative music education.
Her next album comes out in 2023 with First Terrace Records, which features The Alien Kin, a growing ensemble of handmade whistles, flutes, clay vessels and sound makers, used to explore the playful spaces of interspecies communication, non- standardized tunings, and collective synchronisation. In 2022, Diane released the field recording album “a conference of critters”, recorded in Thailand during the pandemic, with the label forms of minutiae.
Diane collaborates with Laure Boer on the radical improvisation duo Arbore that opens onto drone, noise, lullabies, and technoid evocations of witchcraft. She has performed solo in experimental music festivals and venues like INA-GRM Paris, Nachtdigital and Documenta15 in Germany, AADK Spain, Ankali in Prague, and Maerz Musik in Berlin; she has taught in higher-education institutions like the Conservatoire de Musique de Marseille, Hildesheim Arts University, and Berlin’s Universität der Künste.
She has created environmental music instruments, sound pieces and installations at Floating University Berlin, Grabowsee in Brandenburg, the Raddusch biosphere in the Spreewald, the St Marthe quarry in Marseille, Global Forest in the Black Forest, and the biological research station of Kilpisjärvi in the Finnish arctic, always focusing on listening as a primordial practice of sounding.
