digital Barlow Archive (dBA)

The dBA is an umbrella organisation for research inspired by or related to the legacy of the composer and theorist Clarence Barlow.

For an introduction, see the web page of Clarence Barlow.

The Archive

As one of its main activities, the dBA organises the digital legacy of Clarence Barlow (1945–2023) in order to make it accessible to the public. The aim is to provide original sources of information for research projects dealing with historical and contemporary developments in digital composition, sound and media art, and related technologies in the context of Clarence Barlow’s work.

The digital holdings are currently being prepared and catalogued for transfer into a long term digital archive.

Researchers

• Dr. Fabian Czolbe, ligeti zentrum at the Hamburg University of Music and Theatre

Advisory Board

• Birgit Faustmann, executor of Clarence Barlow’s estate
• Prof. Georg Hajdu, ligeti zentrum at the Hamburg University of Music and Theatre
• Dr. Bernd Härpfer, independent researcher, Cologne
• Prof. Julian Rohrhuber, Institute for Music and Media (IMM) at the Robert Schumann University of Music in Düsseldorf (Music Informatics and Epistemic Media)

Cooperation

The dBA provides a space for cooperations with institutions to further research in the environment of an art academy.

• ligeti zentrum at the Hamburg University of Music and Theatre
• Institute for Music and Media (IMM) at the Robert Schumann University of Music in Düsseldorf
• Institute for Music Informatics and Musicology (IMWI) at the Karlsruhe University of Music

The dBA explicitly welcomes individuals that do not have an institutional afiliation.