eee

foto by Enric Coromina

Ruth Barberán | 1966 | Barcelona | Spain

Irumpet, amplified or acoustic objects

URA with i treni inerti (Matt Davis i Alfredo Costa Monteiro) (creative sources, 2003)

ATAMI (Ezaki / Barberán / Unami / Fages / Okura / Costa Monteiro) (hibarimusic, 2003)

CAPACIDAD DE PÉRDIDA (solo) (creative sources, 2004)

ATOLÓN (Fages /Barberán / Costa Monteiro) (rossbin, 2004)

ISTMO (Fages /Barberán / Costa Monteiro) (creative sources, 2005)

OCTANTE (Margarida García / Fages / Costa Monteiro / Barberán) (l’innomable, 2005)

AÉREA with i treni inerti (Alfredo Costa Monteiro) (creative sources, 2005)

SEMISFERI (Fages /Barberán / Costa Monteiro) (esquilo records 2006)

LÚNULA (Margarida García / Fages / Costa Monteiro / Barberán) (another timbre, 2009)

Since her integration in IBA, col.lectiu d’improvisació, in 1999, she starts to focus her work in free improvisation.
Currently, she has 3 stable formations:
i treni inerti, with Alfredo Costa Monteiro
FAGES/BARBERÁN/COSTAMONTEIRO with Ferran Fages and Alfredo Costa Monteiro
OCTANTE with Margarida Garcia, Ferran Fages and Alfredo Costa Monteiro
She has worked with a lot of musicians as it's normal in this kind of music but she also works whenever she can with Ivan Palacky.

She has participated in festivals such as:
REVERS 2001 (CCCB - Barcelona), HURTA CORDEL 2001 (Madrid, NITS DE MÚSICA 2002 and
FRUITS DE MHERE 2002 (France) with i treni inerti,
NITS DE MÚSICA 2000 (Fundació Miró - Barcelona) with l’Orquestra IBA and Peter Kowald
FESTIVAL DE MÚSIQUES CONTEMPORÀNEES 2000 (Auditori - Barcelona) with l’Orq. IBA and Butch Morris
SONIC SCOPE 2002 (Lisboa) with Margarida García
OFF-SITE 2003(Tokyo) with Masafumi Ezaki
AUDITORIO REINA SOFÍA 2006 (Madrid), SALA NASA 2006 (Santiago de Compostela) HURTA CORDEL 2007(Madrid), Museo WOSTELL 2007 (Mal Partida de Cáceres), with FAGES/BARBERÁN/COSTAMONTEIRO
MUSIC LOVER’S FIELD COMPANION 2007 (Newcastle) with OCTANTE - Margarida García , Ferran Fages, Alfredo Costa Monteiro and Ruth Barberán
LINZELBAR 2008 Hamburg with Alfredo Costa Monteiro, Lee Patterson, Heiner Metzger, + Nordzucker: Birgit Ulher, Lars Scherzberg, Michael Maierhof,
CENTRE D’ART LA PANERA 2009 (Lleida), with FAGES/BARBERÁN/COSTAMONTEIRO