Deep Listening
a cycle of concerts curated by Elliot Simpson
Concert 3 – with Barbara Ellison
As part of the "Deep Listening" course, offered within our American Cultural Bites program, we invite you to a concert with the composer and artist, Barbara Ellison.
Barbara Ellison is a composer and visual artist based in The Hague. Her work explores a ghostly presence and matter in a plethora of sound and visual realms. Interpreting and exploiting the phenomenon of pareidolia and apophenia, she creates audiovisual works that manifest as live performances, installations, sound recordings, and sound compositions.
Through his work and research with “Phantoms”, he explores states of auditory and visual ambiguity by working with materials that are naturally ambiguous or that have been 'composed' or created to achieve this quality, in order to exploit the potential manifestation of the apophenia, bringing with it what she calls a "phantasmatic" presence.
He has developed a syncretic approach that embraces and fuses all kinds of creative sources, materials, techniques and tools: from exploring and acting on the sonic complexities of amplified objects (Drawing Phantoms), creating voice avatars with transhuman capabilities (Vocal Phantoms), creating "Phantom Portraits" or conducting field expeditions from various environments such as the Arctic, the Himalayas or the Amazon rainforest (Natural Phantoms).
She is active in the music and art scene with her solo work and with the collaborative collectives Trickster and the Female Effects songwriting collective and has toured and performed internationally as a solo artist. She has a PhD from the University of Huddersfield, UK (“Sonic Phantoms”) and coordinates and teaches the Sonology Education (Loco-Lab) program at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. She coordinates and co-produces the Sonic Mmabolela residency and workshop with Francisco López in South Africa.
The concert takes place in the auditorium of the International Institute (C/Miguel Ángel, 8)
Free entry until complete seats.