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NINE WINDS DISCOGRAPHY:
NWCD0161 Bonnie Barnett - Delay in Gravity
NWCD0218 Bonnie Barnett - Live at Roulette
After studying classical, 20th century and early music at the University of Illinois, UC San Diego and the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, vocalist Bonnie Barnett turned her focus to new music, publishing a pioneering paper on vocal multiphonics and singing with Pauline Oliveros' Women's Ensemble. In the late '70s she relocated to San Francisco where she developed a series of public vocal rituals called "the TUNNEL HUM PROJECT," and over the past 25 years she has staged more than 75 HUM events. Since moving here in 1986, Barnett has become involved in the L.A. free jazz scene, and currently co-hosts the Trilogy program on KXLU. Her ensemble - including local woodwind player Richard Wood, guitar wünderkind Tom McNalley, bassist Hal Onserud, long-time New York player and recent resident of Santa Barbara and, L.A. mainstay Richie West on drums (just nominated by the LA Weekly as "best jazz artist of the year") - focuses on free improvisation, creating spontaneous structures and developing group timbres. Barnett may also incorporate texts by Gertrude Stein and the early Dada writers. Greg Burk at the LA Weekly says: "Neo-trad jazz singers beware: Bonnie Barnett's exorcistic voice and upsetter accompanists make for cocktail spillage."
