Daniel Barbiero

Bio:

A native of New Haven, CT, Daniel Barbiero has been active in creative improvised music in the Baltimore-Washington area for several years as a performer, composer, and bandleader. His music reflects his long-standing engagement with scalar and free improvisation, aleatory composition, modal and post-bop jazz, and world fusion. His creative activities have included leading and composing for the improv unit Shape Memory Alloy, and stints in the DC Improvisers’ Collective and the raga/jazz fusion band TouchingGrace; he has collaborated with saxophonists Mike Sebastian and Jim Sivard, experimentalist T. A. Zook, and backed Blue Note recording artist Greg Osby on a recent DC date. In addition, he has arranged and performed contemporary composed music, including appearing in the premier of composer Robert Carl’s Changing My Spots and playing in the Low End String Quartet. His solo music has been used as a setting for dance and movement. Current projects and collaborations include Nine Strings, with Gary Rouzer on NS bass-cello, WoodStringAir with cellist Doug Stailey, work with pianist Nobu Stowe and electronic sound sculptor Lee Pembleton, and the Mindbreath Trio with Perry Conticchio and Alan Munshower. In addition, he plays with Nancy Havlik's Dance Performance Group and with Jeff Bagato and Rich Sheehe in the ambient/surrealist/wha? trio Mercury Fools the Alchemist.

Member Since:

January 30, 2008

Influences:

Joelle Leandre, Bertram Turetzky, Stefano Scodanibbio, Philip Lamantia, Ben Johnston, Earle Brown, Dane Rudhyar, Ram Narayan, Terry Riley, Marsilio Ficino, Mahatma Kane Jeeves, Guo Xi, Giorgio de Chirico, Octavio Paz, Z.M. Dagar.

Record Label:

unsigned