Associate Professor
Researcher and pioneer of sound art.
Proposing sound interventions and large-scale space-time compositions led him to create the concept of Plurifocality, and to enter the interstices of cultural communities and sound art in public spaces, thus conceiving “The city as an orchestra”.
Llorenç Barber is a musician, composer, writer, researcher, performer and pioneer in the conception of sound art in Europe. He speaks Catalan, French, German, Italian, English and Latin. He studied composition in Siena with Franco Donatoni; in Darmstadt with Stockhausen, Ligeti and Kagel; in Bayreuth with Boulez; and in London with Christian Wolff.
After learning the vocal technique of diphonic singing “Khoomi” with Trân Quang Hai, Kosugi and Charlie Morrow, he created the portative bell tower, a unique instrument with which he developed his own vocal and instrumental technique.
His city concerts with bells have been performed in more than 150 cities around the world, serving as the closing soundtrack for three cultural capitals (Lisbon, Copenhagen, Stockholm), Art Biennials (Japan, France, Thailand, Brazil) and the opening of International Summits of Heads of State and Government (Salamanca, Rome) and other civil commemorations. His work has merited reflections, filmographies, books and doctoral theses.
In 2017, together with Carles Santos, he received the first Bankia Award for Musical Talent in the Valencian Community. In that same year, his work “SOUND RITES, An utopian 'City Concert' of Rotherham as Example for the humanity” for bells, tubular bells, children's processional choir, and five Muazzin Nasheed, received the Guinness Prize for its “exceptionality and beauty”. In 2018 his work “We are cos, we are fire, we are” again receives the Guinness Prize to the largest body percussion ensemble (20,000 Band musicians). In 2018 he was awarded the title of Doctor by the Liberis Artium Universitas with an outstanding Cum Laudem. Since 2005 he has been Academic Correspondent of the Catalan Academy of S. Jordi and since 2011 he has been a guest professor at the Master in Sound Art from the University of Barcelona and Director of the Master in Sound Art at ESMAR in Valencia since 2020.