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Sun 2/20 [1994] THE RETURN OF THE HUM Fort Mason Center - Festival Pavilion - Buchanan & Marina FREE ..come and sing one of Bonnie's Tunnel Hums - bring your vocal cords! 415/441-5706

BONNIE BARNETT, American singer and composer; b. Chicago, Ill., May 2, 1947. She studied at the University of Illinois (B.S., music education, 1968) and with Kenneth Gaburo, Pauline Oliveros and Robert Erickson at the University of California, San Diego (M.A., 1972), focusing on vocal multiphonics and thenic(?jh)sources thereof; then moved to San Francisco, where she developed the TUNNEL HUM PROJECT, a series of participatory vocal events taking place in acoustically interesting environments. Since 1982 Barnett has produced 51 HUMs in a variety of contexts, including 2 satellite-linked live national radio broadcasts (1983, 1984), ...

1992 REUNION HUM, Berkeley Store Gallery, with BARNETT BAND (2/25) 1992 WILBUR HALL HUM, Stanford University, with BARNETT BAND (2/24)

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1988 GLOBAL HUM, live video satellite broadcast sponsored by the World Philharmonic Orchestra. Singers in Moscow, Geneva, Montreal, Santa Fe and Irvine were invited to sing along with HUM participants in San Francisco (12/13) 1988 GALLERY HUMMING, Outside Sound Festival, San Francisco Art Commission Gallery (10/88) 1988 SUMMER TUNNEL HUMMING, Fort Mason, San Francisco (7/88)

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1986 EAST BAY HUM, Codornices Park Tunnel, Berkeley (7/86) 1986 HIGH FLIGHT HUM, a live event which took place at 30,000 feet, on a flight from San Francisco to Houston, as part of New Music America Festival 1986 (4/86)

... 1986 GALLERY HUM, Noe Valley Music Series, San Francisco (1/86)

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1985 MAYHUM, Fort Mason Railroad Tunnel, San Francisco (5/85) 1984 ROTUNDA HUM, City Hall, part of City-wide Festival, San Francisco (10/84) 1984 TUNNEL HUM 1984, live radio broadcast of the mix of live events in San Francisco, New York and Seattle, designed for listener participation, carried live by 8 public radio stations nationwide on 9/30/84, and on a tape delayed basis by 7 other stations

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1984 GALLERY HUMMING, San Francisco Art Institute (4/84) 1983 WINTER TUNNEL HUMMING, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco (12/83) 1983 AUTUMN HUM, Golden Gate Park, part of Art in the Park Festival (10/83) 1984 GROUNDHOG HUM, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco (2/84) 1983 TUNNEL HUM USA, live radio broadcast of the mix of live events in San Francisco and New York, designed for listener participation, carried live by 8 public radio stations nationwide on 7/31/83, and on a tape delayed basis by 5 other stations

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1982 TUNNEL HUM II, part of San Francisco Summer Festival (7/82) 1981 TUNNEL HUM, a site-specific installation in the pedestrian tunnel under the Great Highway at the beach, part of New Music America Festival 1981 (8/81)

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"Live Radio Art," in the SIGNAL issue of the WHOLE EARTH REVIEW, Sausalito, 12/87

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GLOBAL HUM, part of Music and Peace Event, live video satellite broadcast sponsored by the World Philharmonic Orchestra. Singers in Moscow, Geneva, Montreal, Santa Fe and Irvine were invited to sing along with HUM participants in San Francisco, 12/13/88

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TUNNEL HUM 1984, recording of live event, self-produced cassette TUNNEL HUM USA (1983), recording of live event, self-produced cassette

Featured vocalist for soundtrack of film, UMBRA, by Erich Seibert (1980) Featured vocalist for soundtrack of film, MUDFLAT, about the Emeryville Mudflats, by Ric Reynolds, premiered at Oakland Museum (1/12/80)

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TRAFFIC CONTROL IN NEW MEXICO, music for choreography of Brook Klehm; live and processed voice, presented at New Performance Gallery, San Francisco (6/85) THE CITY THAT DOES NOT SLEEP, text by Garcia Lorca, processed voice and concrete sound, commissioned by the Footloose Dance Company, San Francisco (12/84)

Typed by Cheryl Vega 6/13/95


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