Barry Bennett Impending News

Side 20 arrives to your ears


February 22, 2021

popping a can of Batsquatch hazy to celebrate...
The Shut-In Sides turns 20 sides old!

click here to flip it on:
https://barrybennett.bandcamp.com/album/the-shut-in-sides-side-20

bittersweet celebration.
This little audio journal project began as a way get through a few weeks of lock down, and now we are three weeks away from the one year anniversary of Side One's... [more]

Side 19...first recordings of 2021


January 14, 2021

recorded jan 5-9 2021
https://barrybennett.bandcamp.com/album/the-shut-in-sides-side-19

friend.
Side 19 of our little cultural experiment.
breaking apart? coming together? shedding our skin...
we are all alive in this moment in time.
i don't need to report to you what we all see.
While our society evolves, we need to find ways to cultivate our own... [more]

Side 18 starts your new year....now!


January 1, 2021

hi beautiful.
Side 18 is here:
https://barrybennett.bandcamp.com/album/the-shut-in-sides-side-18

recorded Dec 15-29 2020

we've turned a corner on a new year...
ready for it? i certainly am!
approx 9 months from the initial lockdown, our little side series turns 18!
ready to vote and think about moving out of the house for sure.
thinking a lot these... [more]

get your hands on Side 17!


December 3, 2020

recorded Nov 10-26 2020...SIDE 17 is HERE:
https://barrybennett.bandcamp.com/album/the-shut-in-sides-side-17

hello friends...
we're still HERE, but together we can get THERE...
it's been a minute since we've communicated this way.
music wise in the catacombs there have been lots of playing ritual going on, but i couldn't quite bear to hit record button until the... [more]

(bitter) sweet side 16 / LIVE performance with Winifred Haun & dancers


September 21, 2020

hi friend.

(bitter) sweet side 16 is here

https://barrybennett.bandcamp.com/album/the-shut-in-sides-side-16

the "can we find a way" edition.
its just so much right now, i know.
i never thought this little audio diary would turn 16 and i sure didn't think social. economic, and environmental turmoil would all be coming to a head at the same, but here we are.
i... [more]

Side 15. unstuck in time


August 19, 2020

Side 15 is here.

https://barrybennett.bandcamp.com/album/the-shut-in-sides-side-15

hey beautiful...you gotta believe there is light at the end of the tunnel.
right?
one of the things i love about making things is the whole "alien landscape" fantasy. you know, in your mind's eye, coming over the hill or out of a tunnel and seeing something that makes you think..."wow, what... [more]

Side 14. your basic ritual...


July 21, 2020

hello beautiful...

Side 14.
https://barrybennett.bandcamp.com/album/the-shut-in-sides-side-14

my version of sitting and strumming.
you know, like that guy at the party or you see a person off by themselves on a hillside.
in my case that backpack guitar is a piano and a djembe... in this case, a rhodes mark V.
THIS is my basic ritual.
full dance class... [more]

Lucky 13 is here


July 12, 2020

hello lucky.

Lucky 13 is here!
https://barrybennett.bandcamp.com/album/the-shut-in-sides-side-13

Luck is an interesting concept. is it something that you make or something that happens to you? is it a recipe for helping us make sense of the universe's randomness somewhere between mysticism and religion?
my father-in-law, Graham, was really into numerology. he would have... [more]

BB invites you to 16th Street fundraiser


June 25, 2020

hello beautiful...

a break from our regular programming today.
as you all know, i am a sound designer / composer for the theatre.
my theatrical artistic home is 16th Street Theater.
many of you on this list are patrons of 16th Street so i know its important to you.
i can't imagine a world without 16th Street and the stories we tell, the way we tell them, and the amazing people i get to help tell them with and to.

with your help, we won't have to imagine... [more]

Side 12 is here.


June 22, 2020

HelloHuman.

The Shut-In Sides continue.

Side 12 is here.
https://barrybennett.bandcamp.com/album/the-shut-in-sides-side-12

ecorded june 8th and 9th 2020

call this the watching and learning edition.
definitely inspired by my small amount of marching and a lot of looking out the window of the van as i deliver CSA produce during this time of "fed up with the... [more]

modern dance rules... New Video!


May 28, 2020

hi beautiful.

happy to share newest collaboration with choreographer/filmaker Mary Sue Reese!

https://vimeo.com/422947171

this human. she really taps into something and i'm so honored that she finds my music helpful in realizing her vision.

like the cat in the poster says...hang in there.
we create our own culture.

you can find pandemic videos and all The Shut-In Sides here:
... [more]

Side 11! A new dance!


May 17, 2020

Hi There!!

Recorded 5/11/20
https://barrybennett.bandcamp.com/album/the-shut-in-sides-side-11

ambient ala BBS...

during covid times, i've been mixing more ambient stuff into my listening time lately.
reminder of music's ability to transport. settle in for shared energy...
i love the attack of an electric piano. it's inspiring to me.
so
here's me, a... [more]

Side 10! may the fourth be with you and your droids...


May 4, 2020

hiya beautiful...
we've reached the double digit milestone...
the coveted tenth side to The Shut-In Sides!
click!

https://barrybennett.bandcamp.com/album/the-shut-in-sides-side-10

thinking about machines and consciousness and the nature of sentience on this one. maybe its all the star wars i've taken in with my daughter-- we are taking in the skywalker saga leading... [more]

a goat died for this...The Shut-In Sides Side 9 drops NOW


April 25, 2020

Hiya Beautiful...
you hanging in? me too!
ready or not, Side 9 of our ongoing The Shut-In Sides is now ready for your use...

https://barrybennett.bandcamp.com/album/the-shut-in-sides-side-9

i guess you would call this the dance class edition, because i found myself really missing being in the dance studio with those humans training to create beauty out of thin air and being... [more]

The Shut-In Sides. Side 8. here.


April 19, 2020

Hi Beautiful!
everyone doing ok?
i watched a little too much news (maybe you can see that from the cover painting) and was compelled to smack my drums really hard..
welcome to side 8!!!

https://barrybennett.bandcamp.com/album/the-shut-in-sides-side-8

on the micro level, we are really doing some living, here.
we broke out an easel. we shredded some documents.... [more]

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