Sound Art: Barbara De Dominicis

photo by Davide Lonardi

Spiritual Archives welcomes Barbara De Dominicis, getting intrigued by her sound world, her distinctive techniques of experimentation/improvisation, her finely-nuanced voice compounded with electronics and environmental recordings.
Italian, highly creative, resourceful artist, involved in the project "Parallel 41", a stable interaction with Canadian cellist Julia Kent (read info below), expressed through performances, a CD and a movie (both forthcoming on Baskaru).
She is also founder and curator of "Exquisite What", platform that gathers audio and visual artists from all over the world.
A big thanks to Barbara for making this page possible.

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Biography:

Barbara De Dominicis, besides using her voice, likes to record natural or urban sounds and merge them in her music.
Her projects include Cabaret Noir [with Pasquale Bardaro], The Body_exposed: Poe-Si [with Mirko Signorile and Marco Messina], Kuul-Ma, an audio-visual project in collaboration with media artist Davide Lonardi.
In 2008 she wrote and produced the songs of her album Anti-Gone, based on a narrative theme of Greek mythology.
In the same year she met the canadian cello player Julia Kent. Together they brought into existence Parallel41, a musical/visual/improvisatory project released internationally on french record label Baskaru [February 2012]
A growing interest in Sound Portraiture led her to work on A tale of two cities, an audio collage documenting Naples and New York, that became a radiowork produced for Radio Papesse vs Radia Network: Crossings.
Among her soundworks: ReDiSound, a radio work produced for Radio Papesse - an homage to Marcel Duchamp [Call for revolutionary Sounds]; Whismical Cartography [produced for the multimedia exhibition "E-Art-Quake", commemorating the earthquake in Irpinia].
At the end of 2010, with a dozen of other sound and visual/photo artists, she gave life to Exquisite What [founder/curator], a collective web/project based on the Exquisite Corpse practice.
In 2011 she started to collect materials to set up "La Rêverie" [founder/curator] with the intention to build a sort of web-platform where it is possible to circumnavigate strangers' dreams, trying to investigate the impalpable "fil rouge" that ties diverse dreams apparently distant by nature, geography, culture.
Most recently she has been invited by GIRRL [girrlsound :digitalgirrl] (an Australia based organization in support of the development and promotion of new works by women dealing with sonic and digital arts) to curate and produce a series of radio podcasts (The Cat Cinderella) aimed to promote works by women artists who investigate sound as a distinctive element in their research.
At the moment she is working on a new solo album under the moniker Apres Soon: an assemblage of drones and field recordings, electronics, voices and string instruments.

Barbara De Dominicis ama raccogliere suoni, manipolarli ed inventare trame sonore.
Tra i suoi progetti, Poe-Si [con Marco Messina/99 Posse e Mirko Signorile], Cabaret Noir [con Pasquale Bardaro], Kuul_MA, sperimentazione audiovisiva in cui un'elettronica di tipo organico interagisce con i paesaggi mutevoli del visual artist Davide Lonardi.
Nel 2008 pubblica come solista Anti-Gone, un concept album che ha come filo conduttore narrativo la mitologia greca.
A partire dal 2008 inizia una collaborazione con la violoncellista canadese Julia Kent. Le loro performance (inizialmente sotto il nome di Intermittenze) presto diventeranno un progetto stabile ed in progress dal nome Parallel41. L'etichetta francese Baskaru pubblicherà il loro cd/dvd a febbraio 2012.
Tra i suoi lavori sonori, Whimsical Cartography (selezionato tra le opere che saranno esposte nella mostra multimediale collettiva E-ArtQuake, in commemorazione del terremoto dell' Irpinia) e Re_di_Sound [Radio Papesse] un omaggio a Marcel Duchamp [Call for Revolutionary Sounds].
Il suo crescente interesse per il paesaggio sonoro la porta a concepire A tale of two cities, una serie di audio collage volti a ritrarre analogie e differenze di due città che giacciono sullo stesso parallelo: Napoli e New York. Questo lavoro è diventato un radiodocumentario prodotto da Radio Papesse vs Radia network, dal titolo Crossings.
Tra i suoi progetti in corso, Exquisite What [di cui è curatrice/ideatrice] un collettivo ispirato alla pratica surrealista degli Exquisite Cadaver, dedito alla creazione di una piattaforma web audio/visiva; La Rêverie/La Sogneria (curatrice/ideatrice), uno spazio multimediale legato al sogno in cui, come all'interno di un mappamondo indicizzato per luoghi, tematiche ed epoche, si potrà scegliere di "entrare" [in mp3] nel racconto di un sogno o di viaggiare tra più sogni (in progress).
Di recente è stata invitata da GIRRLSOUND [un'organizzazione australiana a sostegno delle donne che lavorano in ambito di sonic e digital art] a curare e produrre una serie di podcast radiofonici (The Cat Cinderella) con l’intento di promuovere la diffusione di lavori di artiste a cavallo tra net.art, sound art e audio documentario.
Con il moniker Apres Soon è al lavoro su un nuovo album solista: un assemblaggio di drones e field recordings, di elettronica, voci e strumenti a corde.

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2011 Favorites by Barbara De Dominicis:

photo by Valerie Guibert

Solo una mappa psico_sonico-geografica dei miei ascolti quasi.sentimentali nell’arco del 2011, nessuna classifica (...)

Chris Watson - El Tren Fantasma [Touch]
(http://www.chriswatson.net/)

Mudboy - This Is Folk Music [Weird Forest]
(http://mudboymusic.com/)

Christina Vantzou - No. 1 [Kranky]
(http://www.cristinavantzou.com/)

Seth Cluett - Objects Of Memory [L-Ne]
(http://www.onelonelypixel.org/)

Okkyung Lee - Noisy Love Songs [Tzadik]
(http://www.okkyung.wordpress.com/)

Farewell Poetry - Hoping For The Invisible To Ignite [Gizeh Records]
(http://www.farewell-poetry.com/)

Elio Martusciello - Concret Songs [TiConZero] (http://xoomer.virgilio.it/eliomart/)

Bill Orcutt - How the Thing Sings [Editions Mego]
(http://palilalia.com/)

Colin Stetson - New History Warfare Vol.2: Judges [Constellation]
(http://www.colinstetson.com/)

Newtone2060 - Shot [Fratto9UndertheSky]
(http://www.fratto9.com/?page_id=1771)

Esmerine - La Lechuza [Constellation]
(http://www.esmerine.com/)

(etre) - Inferno From My Occult Diary [Porter Records]
(http://salvatoreborrelli.tumblr.com/)

Empusae & Shinkiro - organic.aural.ornaments [Ant-Zen]
(http://www.empusae.com/empusae/home.html)

Kreng - Grimoire [Miasmah]
(www.myspace.com/krengmusic)

Leonardo Rosado - Mute Words [Heart and Soul]
(http://feedbacklooplabel.blogspot.com/)

Tiziana Bertoncini and Thomas Lehn - Horsky Park [Another Timbre] (http://www.thomaslehn.com/view/tnt_01.html)

Chubby Wolf - Los que No Son Gentos [Dragon's Eye Recordings] (http://chubbywolf.bandcamp.com/)

Fovea Hex - Here Is Where We Used To Sing [Janet Records]
(http://www.foveahex.bandcamp.com/)

Julia Kent - Green and Grey [Important Records]
(http://www.juliakent.com/)

Winter Family - Red Sugar [Sub Rosa]
(http://www.winterfamily.info/)

Ezekiel Honig - Folding In On Itself [Type Records]
(http://www.ezekielhonig.com/)

Jac Berrocal + David Fenech + Ghédalia Tazartès - Superdisque [SubRosa] (http://davidfenech.fr/wp/2011/10/01/jac-berrocal-david-fenech-ghedalia-tazartes-superdisque/)

Isnaj Dui (Katie English) - Circle of Sleep [Fbox Records]
(http://www.fboxrecords.co.uk/aboutnews.html)

Half Asleep - Subtitles For The Silent Versions [We Are Unique]
(http://soundcloud.com/half-asleep)

Paolo Angeli & Takumi Fukushima - Itsunomanika [ReR Megacorp]
(http://www.paoloangeli.it/)

Vitor Joaquim - Filament [Kvitnu]
(www.vitorjoaquim.pt/)

D'Incise - Rivages Sur L'antipode [ini.itu]
(http://www.dincise.net/)

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Air Chamber 3 feat. Barbara De Dominicis & guests | Valdapozzo (AL)

Parallel 41 (Julia Kent + Barbara De Dominicis) live | Filanda Motta (TV)

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Links:
Barbara De Dominicis (website) (soundcloud)
Parallel 41
Exquisite What