D a n i e l
B a r b i e r o
Daniel Barbiero is a double bassist, composer and writer in the Washington DC area. He writes on the art, music and literature of the classic avant-gardes of the 20th century and on contemporary work. He is a regular contributor to Avant Music News, Perfect Sound Forever and Percorsi Musicali. As a performer of non-conventionally notated contemporary works, he has recorded or realized scores by composers Alexis Porfiriadis, Makoto Nomura, Silvia Corda, Didier Guigue, and others. As a composer, he has had his scores realized by 6daEXIt, The X=/=X Ensemble, The Subtle Body Transmission Orchestra, double bassist Michele Bondesan, OpusNovus, The Nancy Havlik Dance Performance Group, cellist Gary Rouzer, double bassist George Kokkinaris, and others. He is the author of the essay collection As Within, So Without (Arteidolia Press, 2021). Daniel Barbiero’s website→
Review of Julien Gracq’s Abounding Freedom – May 2024
Mark Rothko: Paintings on Paper – February 2024
Metzinger’s Cup – January 2024
Review: Nicodemus Nicoludis’ MULTICENE – November 2023
Review: Via, by Claire DeVoogd – November 2023
Review: Abyss and Song: Selected Poems by George Sarantaris – October 2023
Barnett Newman and the Sublime – September 2023
Review: Jim Leftwich’s “Public Displays of Affection” – August 2023
Review: Robert Desnos: Night of Loveless Nights – June 2023
Review: “Letters” poetry by Jonathan Minton, a book review – April 2023
The Loveliest Vowel Empties: Poetry by Meret Oppenheim – March 2023
Marvelous Versus the Absurd – Daniel Barbiero – February 2023
Review: Beat Not Beat – December 2022
Robert Motherwell’s Reconciliation Elegy – November 2022
Review: Two new poetry collections by Mark Young – October 2022
Seventy Years after 4’33” (John Cage) – August 2022
Review: The Letters of What is Not ( Kate Fitzpatrick) – July 2022
The Meontology of the Left-Handed Painter (Carlo Mariani) – June 2022
…That Point at Which… – April 2022
Review: WAAVe Women Asemic Writers & Visual Poets – March 2022
Review: In an Attic Palace Beneath a Slaughtered Sky – March 2022
Atopia Revisited – January 2022
Alice Rahon’s “Ixtaccihuatl” – November 2021
Seven Theses on“the Emotional Life of Words” – September 2021
Doctor Sax and the Metaphysical Geography of Lowell – July 2021
Imaginary Numbers: Yves Tanguy – May 2021
Is Silence Golden? – January 2021
On Russell Atkins: “Exteriors, Interiors” – December 2020
On Russell Atkins Part 1: The Poetics of Objectified Mind – November 2020
The Letters of What is – September 2020
The Angel of Contingency – June 2020
Postcards from Quarantine – June 2020
The Oracle’s Regret – April 2020
Writing Pushed Beyond Writing – March 2020
Three Ordinary Seasons in New Haven (Loren Connors) – December 2019
William Bailey: Looking through Time – November 2019
The Anti-Metaphysical Metaphysician – Carlo Carrá – October 2019
Of a “Mystic Surrealist” Philip Lamantia: Preserving Fire – September 2019
As Within So Without: The Painter as Clairvoyant –April 2019
Being and Imagination: Robert Pepper (2015-2018) – February 2019
Familiar Monsters (Surrealism in the 1930s & 1940s) – December 2018
Familiar Monsters: Part 2 – December 2018
Notes on Waiting – November 2018
The Object as Catalyst: The Enigmatic Mask – May 2018
Joelle Léandre: Being with Sound – March 2018
… That Point at Which… – January 2018
The World and Its Double – November 2017
Notes on Airports – October 2017
Looking again at Giacometti – September 2017
The Enigma of the Hour (de Chirico) – June 2017
Sticks & Stones in the Time of Objects (Brian Olewnick) – May 2017
Improvisation & How It Means – April 2017
Atopia: Soundings from Non-places – March 2017
Gestures on Paper and in Space – February 2017
Improvisation: Experience: Self-Disclosure – January 2017
The Ironist as Nihilist (Francis Picabia) – December 2016
Beyond Mystery & Mystique (John Corbett) – October 2016
The Line as Anti-Ideal (Fred Sandback) – September 2016
Calling out to Others – June 2016
On Long Tones & Zips – April 2016
Dancing with the Hands – March 2016
Improvisation: Experience: Self-Disclosure – January 2016
Physical Counterpoint – December 2015
Graphic Scores & Musical Post-Literacy – September 2015
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