Brian E Barrett

Latest Things I’ve Added or Added to

• Fractalized: Total Immersion
  Fun Stuff, Publications, Random Things
  In 1993–1994, I wrote an anthology of short stories of characters in a near-future world called Total Immersion for a zine called Fractalized, published by my friend Tristan Tomaselli. Total […]
• Live at Karpeles Manuscript Museum, Buffalo Infringement Fest 2014
  Experimental Electronica, Music
  To my immediate right, there was a small, unassuming display case on a free-standing pedestal containing the original sheet music for either The Wedding March, or maybe it was Happy Birthday; one of those—a song ingrained in our culture, universally recognized, and the idea of seeing the handwritten draft by the composer, penned as they were figuring it out, was surreal […]
• Gracies Dinnertime Theatre (Magazine)
  Fun Stuff, Publications, Random Things
  In February 2025, after almost two decades of dormancy, I was asked to write a piece for a 30th anniversary issue, so I did. […]
• Chorus & Flange: Lair of Our Dreams
  Music, Rock, Soundtracks
  It's no secret I grew up listening to the Cure, Joy Division and Depeche Mode; I had the hair to prove it. […]
• Barrett & Airheart
  Experimental Electronica, Music, Soundtracks
  Around 1995-1999, I recorded a series of multi-track improvisations with Matthew Jay. The songs have a Robert Fripp meets Cluster and early Tangerine Dream feel to them; It's got that mellow progressive electronic sound so popular within a few city blocks of Berlin in the 70s. […]
• Music of Epilogue
  Experimental Electronica, Music, Rock
  Brian Barrett performs keyboards and spacetime knobs with a band to make original music with that "eclectic-psychedelic alternative rock sound" […]
• A Punk Band Project
  Music, Rock
  From 2001 to 2010, I played bass, screamed backup (and the occasional lead), and wrote about half the songs for a band created by stagehands while day-laboring. […]
• 9INE
  Experimental Electronica, Music
  The 9INE project, organized by RJ Bernfeild (Epilogue, Miche and the Anglos), had nine musicians for a grueling 9 hours of harsh-noise/free jazz improvisation on April 9, 2012 at The Vinyards in […]
• Work and School History (early years)
  About, Random Things
  My father was really not a great business man. He might have been a company man. He definitely was a traveling man, and I am definitely a poor widow's son. […]