Lou Barnell + Neighbourhood Voices
Aviva Studios: The Undercroft
Lou Barnell creative director / Neighbourhood Voices vocals / Hazel Thompson collaborator
Lou is an award-winning vocalist, sound and performance artist, one of Sound and Music UK’s New Voices 2022 composers, and an mjf hothouse 2023 artist alumnus. She was also a 2021 Oram Award-winner, in recognition of innovation in sound and technology.
In collaboration with the 25-strong Neighbourhood Voices inclusive choir from Sheffield, Lou will immerse the audience in a ‘Live Dream’ using embodied deep listening to bathe listeners in sound, inviting people to luxuriate in the here-and-now as music and sound from the city merge.
Lou’s music communicates her synaesthetic experience of sound, hyperfocus and sensory overload, celebrating her qualities as a neurodivergent woman. She creates constellations of materials, wearable music technology, voice and movement.
She is currently working with the concept of ‘Live Dreaming’, which explores how musical performance and dreaming have the same functions: to help us know ourselves and find our way. Lou’s work is inspired by the work of Pauline Oliveros, Neuroqueer materialities, feminisms, quantum futures and imaginings
Photography Credit: Hannah Lovell
Date: sunday 25 may
Time: 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm
Price: Free
- Lou Barnell
