Llorenç Barber / bells 9 / 07:41 / 2000

Composer, performer and musicologist, Llorenç Barber was born in Aielo de Malferit in 1948, and lives in Madrid since 1972. From 1979 to 1984 he directed the Aula de Música of the Complutense University of Madrid. From 1987 to 1990 he worked with Spanish National Television on the program El Mirador. Since 1990 he has been a professor at the Institute of Esthetics in Madrid and since 1992 he directs Paralelo Madrid, a concert series at the Circulo de Bellas Artes dedicated to "other musics". Since 1998 he organizes also "Nits d'Aielo i Art" an annual event devoted to experimental art. Since 1980 he has utilized overtone singing, improvisation, bells, plurifocal music, phonetic poetry, urban concerts with bells and the marathon concerts "from sundown to sunup" ("de sol a sol").