Barnz

Barnz (David Barnes) is a composer, multi-instrumentalist and recording musician with twenty years experience and 25 full-length album releases. He is probably best known as the Front man/ founding member of the Philadelphia rock band Puncture Project. But he is also the driving force behind several experimental groups including Bastard Finders, The Echo Chamber Ensemble and most recently - Post. Barnz has released many solo albums including the most recently featured album “Hinges.”

Barnes is a recipient of grants from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Pew Charitable Trust, Meet The Composer, The Individual Performing Artist Program, and 2 Fellowships from the MacDowell Artist Colony. His compositions for self-designed percussive sound sculptures and orchestral strings have been performed in several venues up and down the east coast including The Lincoln Center Out-Of-Doors festival (NYC), the Kennedy Center (Washington), Jacobs Pillow (Tanglewood), MTI (Phila), The Painted Bride (Phila), The American Composers Forum Sonic Circuits Festival, The Worcester New Music Festival, Mobius (Boston), The Dance Complex (Cambridge) and many other venues in Boston and Philadelphia. He has written and recorded scores for many modern dance and theater companies, and his first score for major motion picture will be coming out later this year.






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