Artist Info: Mark Barden

Mark Barden, born 1980 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA, composes concert music and sound installations with and without live performers.

Barden’s work understands sound as a fundamentally physical phenomenon. By emphasizing the violence of sound-making—with all its gripping, striking, and scraping—he invites the audience not just to listen, but to feel their own bodies listening and engaging with sound and, vicariously, with the musicians‘ bodies as their muscles and breath vibrate the air. [read more...]