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Joan La Barbara with Plato, January 2009
Joan La Barbara in her NYC studio, January 2009
(for The Wire)
Joan La Barbara with Liz, at home, NYC, January 2009 
Joan La Barbara
Joan La Barbara with Plato, January 2009
A selection of Joan La Barbara's Scores
Joan La Barbara and Merce Cunningham at rehearsal of Cage's "Lecture on the Weather", Chelsea Art Museum, November 2008
Joan La Barbara in Greenwich
Village, NYC, October 2004
Joan La Barbara in Greenwich
Village, NYC, October 2004
[photo:
Julie Graber, 2002]
[photo:
Chris Corrie, March 2002]
[photo: Chris Corrie,
March 2002]
Joan La Barbara premieres her new work "Striations" for voice and 16 intonarumori at The Town Hall, November 12, 2009, commissioned and presented by Performa 09 festival, with Magik*Magik Orchestra, conducted by Luciano Chessa. 
Joan La Barbara performs her work "October Music: Star
Showers and Extraterrestrials" as part of "A Fantastic World Superimposed on Reality: A Select History of Experimental Music", presented by Performa 09 Festival, at Gramercy Theatre in NYC, November 21, 2009.
Joan La Barbara performing her work at INSTAL 09 Festival, Glasgow, Scotland, March 21, 2009
Joan La Barbara performing "ROTHKO"
at Roulette/Location One
Joan La Barbara performing "ROTHKO"
at Roulette/Location One
Joan La Barbara performing "Shimmer"
at Roulette/Location One
Joan La Barbara performing "Shimmer"
at Roulette/Location One
Joan La Barbara performing "ROTHKO"
at Roulette/Location One
Town
Hall premiere of Steve
Reich's "Drumming" 1971,
NYC. Left to right, Jay
Clayton (L), Joan La Barbara(C),
Judith Sherman (R)
Joan La Barbara interview
for Avalanche magazine
Soho Rooftop, 1973. 
Joan
La Barbara interview
for Avalanche magazine
Soho Rooftop, 1973.
Gordon
Mumma (playing horn)
and me barefoot (seems
the way I was doing things
those days), rehearsing
David Behrman's "Rebus" in
Cunninghman studio at Westbeth,
summer 1974 prior to our
performances in Paris for
Festival d'Automne.
From
performance at Cologne
Kunst Markt (or Art Fair),
1974 with members of Philip
Glass Ensemble: closest
to camera - Joan La Barbara,
to her right is Dickie
(or Richard) Landry, next
to him (mostly hidden)
is Richard Peck and farthest
from camera is Jon Gibson
JLB
w/David Tudor, Paris 1974
There is a series of 3
photos [Photo: Horace]
I sang in Tudor's "Rain
Forest" at
l'Espace Cardin, Autumn,
1974. In this one, the
performance, David is at
the table with electronics
and I am sitting on a low
cushion singing into a
microphone. David is sending
my voice to various objects
in the Rain Forest.
David Tudor
is giving me instructions
and explanations of where
the sounds will be sent
in performance of "Rain
Forest" (l'Espace
Cardin, Paris, Autumn,
1974)
Rehearsing "Still and
Moving Lines in Families
of Hyperbolas" Cunningham
Studios, NYC, 1974.
Joan
La Barbara & Jon Gibson
at David Tudor's "Rainforest".
l'Espace Cardin, Paris
(1974) 
Joan
La Barbara interview with
Nina Melis, NYC 1975.[photo: Nina Melis]
Joan
La Barbara performing
Alvin Lucier's "Still and
Moving Lines of Silence
in Families of Hyperbolas" at
the Kitchen, 1975. 
David Tudor's Rainforest
performance April 19, 1975
at The Kitchen (59 Wooster
Street). Tom Johnson is
in foreground with back
to camera, I am facing
camera, both listening
to hoop; in background
at right is Laurie Speigel.
Photo
taken in live performance
at a space called Environ,
December 1975 at premiere
of my collaboration with
Dana Reitz, "An Exploration
in Vocal Sound and Movement".
Staten
Island photo shows Dana
Reitz (L), Phill Niblock
(C), Joan La Barbara (R)
in preparation to film
work-in-progress rehearsal
of "An Exploration in Vocal
Sound and Movement" at
Staten Island Community
College, summer, 1975
Joan
La Barbara & Dana
Reitz performing "A Collaboration
in Vocal Sound and Movement",
Environ NYC 1975.
Joan
La Barbara & Dana
Reitz performing "A Collaboration
in Vocal Sound and Movement",
Environ NYC 1975. 
Joan
La Barbara & Dana
Reitz performing "A Collaboration
in Vocal Sound and Movement",
Environ NYC 1975. 
Warren
Smith, Joan La Barbara,
Bruce Ditmas performing
La Barbara's "Thunder" at
The Kitchen, 1976.
Joan La Barbara and John Cage playing chess before a rehearsal at his loft
[photo:
Roberto Massoti, 1976]
[photo:
Roberto Massoti, 1976]
[photo:
Roberto Massoti, 1976]
[photo: Roberto Massoti,
1976]
[photo:
Roberto Massoti, 1976]
Joan
La Barbara
(kneeling by tape deck
and light panning device)
during performance of "CYCLONE
Con(s)t(r)ained" at P.S.
1, Long Island City, 1977.
Joan
La Barbara in performnce
of her work "12 for 5
in 8" (1979) at CalArts
Contemporary Music Festival,
with members of the Extended
Vocal Techniques Ensemble (EVTE)
from San Diego. 
Joan
La Barbara rehearsing Earle
Brown's "Windsor Jambs" with
20th Century Players at
California Institute of
the Arts, Valencia. circa
1981
John
Adams & Joan La Barbara
at Betty Freeman's Music
Room, LA. November 7,
1982.
[photo: Betty Freeman]
Joan & Nicholas
Slonimsky at Betty Freeman's
Musical Soiree, 1983
[photo: Betty Freeman]
Performance in LA, 1984
[photo: Debbie Richardson]
Joan
La Barbara w/ Conlon Nancarrow
at Betty Freeman's Musical
Soiree, LA, 1985.
[photo: Betty Freeman]
Portrait
by Betty Freeman 1985
Joan
La Barbara in performance
at LA Theatre Center
(3/3/86) of her work "Winds
of the Canyon" with sets
by visual artist Lita
Albuquerque (standing
in shadow at left).
[photo: Debbie Richardson]
Joan La Barbara and John Cage at rehearsal in San Francisco May 7, 1992
photo: © 1992 Betty Freeman
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