Statement
Hello and welcome to my site.Barnaby O´Rorke Treeglove Horn 1966.
Performer, musician(cello, voice and piano), artist and writer.
"Barnaby uses sound, music, body and voice to improvise. He breaks the routine static musician positioning. He's one of the few musicians who inhabits his body while performing. He uses the shape of the instrument, the wood, the hair, the rosin, the string as partners in his improvisations, not merely the music that comes out of the instrument. The weight of a melody contains the weightof the arm and bone and muscle, the weight of the wooden bow, and Barnaby notices this and plays with it." Sten Rudstrom
I am driven to see what can be done with the bare bones, with just the body and acoustic sound; just the air between the performer and the audience. The physicality of song; the sweat and blood of the noise. I have performed in any which way, as a dancer, a poet, a backing vocalist and will keep experimenting. The work I am focused on at present is moving in and out of roles, from a musician to poet to dancer to pilot to hunter and back. My work often revolves around songs I have written and improvised for cello,piano and voice.
I am a cellist that sings and a pianist that dances.
Along side my solo work I collabarate regularly with dancers and also write, create music videos and draw.
(You will find under downloads a small film of Boy in the Breakers, a work for cello and voice.)