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Joan La Barbara begins Sound Paintings with a scream that pushes you into an unusual world of vocal sound. Her virtuoso singing style, developed over a 20-year period, can be heard on this disc, which combines some of her earlier works with more recent compositions. She takes her extended techniques...

Collection of early works and her first vocal compositions, originally released on LPs in the 1970s and early 1980s on her own Wizard Records. "One of my earliest pieces, `Hear What I Feel', was a self-exploratory, sensory-deprivation experimental work, designed to help me discover new sounds, delve...

Joan La Barbara, the premiere new-music vocalist, combines her unparalleled extended techniques with electronic sound sources, Middle Eastern instrumentation, cello, and found natural sounds. In the title piece, La Barbara conjures up a sense of shamanic ritual. Recording in a high-desert terrain, s...

73 Poems is La Barbara's musical setting for a series of 79 drawings by Kenneth Goldsmith which contain lists of phrases, words, letters or numbers. The drawings are loosely based on a stream of conscious rhyming system in which words and phrases are chosen for the associative and suggestive meaning...

The Virtuoso In The Computer Age III (CDCM Computer Music Series Vol. 13)...

Microtonal Works...

La Barbara, Hibbard, Eckert and others...

University of Iowa Center for New Music: 25th Anniversary (1966-1991)...