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FRAU LEHMANN

by Lou Barnell

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FRAU LEHMANN
Is a commission for Yarmonics Festival 2020, composed and performed by Lou Barnell.

It is an interactive audio-visual composition and score for ice sculptures, inks, crayons, voice, biorhythmic data and movement.

The full work is available to watch here>
vimeo.com/454780704

In the past, I’ve primarily focussed on the body as an entity to be explored in relation to abstract, subconscious and performed mechanisms such as dreams, acts of care and obsessive tendencies.

FRAU LEHMANN is an attempt to displace and destabilise my body; to reimagine its role in online performance- as part of a vibrant intersecting assemblage of material and digital things.
Traces of my previous embodied practices and artworks jostle and reform alongside fragments of family history and materials. These elements migrate and collide into their own melodrama of absence and abstraction.

The Score was created by using biorhythmic sensors to generate data on muscle activity and heart rate which was cross-referenced against segments from two texts: My dream journal 2019-20, and my great Aunt Renate’s Autobiographical account of her flight from Silesia in World War Two (Elisabeth’s Journey:1945, Hillside Publications 2009)
Frau Lehmann is a fleeting character in the book - a kind woman who provides temporary shelter.

Text pieces and data were combined in a layered score which was interpreted using materials and techniques used in my live work with the body (vocals, line-drawing, ice, inks, food colouring and electronics)
A Max Msp patch was created which uses the amplitude of the composition to trigger biorhythmic data and digital effects. It creates a ‘data storm’ which floods my Twitter feed with biorhythmic data when the piece is played.

The piece features Robin Foster as Technical Director.

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released September 4, 2020
Composed by Lou Barnell 2020

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Lou Barnell is a London born movement and sound artist. An explosion of material sonic experimentation, intense visuals and brutalist visceral movement.

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