Stephan Barrett
Musician | Composer
Stephan Barrett is a musician and improviser inspired by the resonance of objects gleaned whilst walking and the imaginary potential of sonic landscapes.
By day, Stephan is to be found out of doors or tinkering with found/home-made instruments as one part of the radio-maker and improvisation duos Postcards from the Volcano and Littoral Transmissions, and by night, performing in a variety of scenarios including jazz-noir outfit Georges Kaplan Presents, the London Improvisers’ Orchestra, Apocalypse Jazz Unit or submerged in the aquatic imaginings of SEA MANTIS amongst others.
Stephan is active in London’s experimental and free improvisation scenes and has performed at Full of Noises Festival, Fort Process, Hundred Years Gallery, iklectic, A.P.T. Gallery, Cafe Oto, New River Studios, the Vortex, the Horse Hospital and Arch1. He has created radio works for Radiophrenia, SonicaFM and Wandsworth radio amongst others and currently produces regular shows with Littoral Transmissions for Resonance Extra and Threads Radio.
Stephan has recorded with Asterisms, MASS, Georges Kaplan Presents, and his solo album ‘sea . forest . wind’ is available on Visible Near Midnight records.
photo, L: A Company of Enthusiasts, R: IKLECTIK
profile: A Company of Enthusiasts