Peter Barnard

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Artist/Sound Maker. I also host a quarterly radio programme, ‘Outertones’ on at CAMP. (he/him) www.peterbarnard.net

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Peter Barnard@peterbarnard· 11d

Found via Kagi. parentheticalrecluse.com/blog/2026072...

An abstract expressionist painting dominated by a stark black and vibrant deep red color palette. The composition is formed by heavy, heavily textured brushstrokes that create a mix of swirling, chaotic curves and sharp, vertical shapes. A thick, dark pillar-like form runs down the center, surrounded by sweeping red loops and geometric angles. The paint appears to have been scraped or thickly layered, leaving highly visible bristle marks that give the piece a raw, moody, and energetic atmosphere.

Peter Barnard@peterbarnard· 11d

Deep voids, and automatic mark-making. #MastoArt #ArtSky #MacabreArt #TraditionalArt

A stark black and white traditional ink drawing on a sketchbook page. The image features dense, chaotic line work forming a biological, fleshy mass. Embedded within the organic textures are several large, disembodied eyeballs and a rigid, geometric hexagon containing a pentagram. The composition contrasts intricate, flowing organic shapes with heavy, solid black voids and sharp occult symbolism.

Peter Barnard@peterbarnard· 13d

A screenshot of text on a light lavender background that reads: "Right now the internet is feeling" in black, sans-serif font, followed by the word "tired" in bold blue font below it.

Peter Barnard@peterbarnard· 15d

No screens, an hour of freehand ink drawing. 🖋️ #ArtSky #MastoArt #Sketchbook #DarkSurrealism

A high-contrast black and white ink drawing on a sketchbook page. The image is an abstract, freehand composition that resembles mutating biological forms, muscle fibers, or strange deep-sea anatomy. It features heavy black voids anchored by dense, chaotic, and twisting parallel contour lines with thin tendrils whipping out at the edges.

Peter Barnard@peterbarnard· 17d

Tangled trunks and heavy ink. #ArtSky #MastoArt #DarkArt #InkStudy #Sketchbook

A stark black and white ink drawing on a sketchbook page, depicting a dense thicket of intertwined, leafless tree trunks. The forms are defined entirely by heavy, parallel contour lines that sweep and twist along the wood, creating a strong sense of three-dimensional volume, deep shadow, and a dark, surreal atmosphere.

Peter Barnard@peterbarnard· 18d

A proto-metal kind of Friday. Rainbow - Rising (1976, Polydor)

A vinyl LP record with a bright red center label spinning on a black turntable, with the tonearm in place. Displayed behind the turntable is the album jacket for Rainbow’s 1976 rock album Rising, featuring fantasy artwork by Ken Kelly of a giant fist emerging from stormy seas to grab a vibrant rainbow.

Peter Barnard@peterbarnard· 20d

Outertones — Material on @campradio.bsky.social Today. 6pm CEST. Kagel → Lachenmann → Partch → Fullman → Wada → Masaoka → Gasparyan. 57 minutes. Sound as physical substance.

A sheet of white, lined music manuscript paper filled with shorthand notation or abstract, line-and-dot ink marks written across ten five-line staves. The dark ink markings consist of small dots, short dashes, angled strokes, and subtle curves scattered relative to the staff lines, resembling a shorthand script or experimental graphic notation rather than standard musical notation.

Peter Barnard@peterbarnard· 21d

Bestial black metal but with a weird spacey vibe. #blackmetal Beherit - Drawing Down the Moon (2020, Darkness Shall Rise Productions)

Peter Barnard@peterbarnard· 23d

Didn't realise Pat Metheny was a fan of Foetus.

Album cover art for Pat Metheny's "Side-Eye," featuring Chris Fishman and Joe Dyson. The design features a bold, graphic, constructivist style divided into rectangular blocks using a high-contrast black, white, red, and yellow color palette. At the top, "PAT METHENY" is written in large, stylized stencil lettering. The middle section lists "CHRIS FISHMAN" and "JOE DYSON" below a red right-pointing arrow, with "SIDE-EYE" appearing on the right in angled, yellow and red stencil text. The bottom left features a stylized graphic of a black and white eye on a red background, while the bottom right displays three vertical red bars and a black plus sign ("III+"). Yellow and black diagonal caution stripes accent the top left and bottom right corners.

Graphic album cover featuring the word "FOETUS" in large white letters at the top, overlaid with yellow Japanese characters. A black parallelogram with "INC" in white and yellow sits on the right. The central illustration, set against a bold red background, features a crashing white wave, a large black ship's wheel or gear, a dangling chain with a hook, a red alien-like skull in the bottom left, and yellow flames surrounding a badge that reads "沈 " in the bottom right.

Peter Barnard@peterbarnard· 25d

Christo and Jeanne-Claude at Gagosian, Grosvenor Hill, London.

A large, empty gallery space featuring an overhead art installation. Vast sheets of translucent white plastic are suspended from the ceiling by an intersecting network of thick ropes. The ropes gather and support the material, creating large, billowing, cloud-like forms that hang low into the room. The space has stark white walls, a dark hardwood floor, and a doorway on the left letting in natural light, while soft, diffused light filters down through the plastic canopy above.

Peter Barnard@peterbarnard· 26d

An exercise in pure texture today. 🖋️ #MastoArt #ArtSky #InkDrawing #TextureStudy #DarkArt #TraditionalArt

A high-contrast black and white ink drawing on white paper, featuring the thick trunk and twisting branches of a leafless, gnarled tree. The bark is heavily textured using dense, sweeping black lines that wrap along the contours of the wood to create a sense of 3D volume and shadow. The tips of the branches curl outward into tight, surreal, and whimsical spirals.

Peter Barnard@peterbarnard· Jul 12

Previous study exploring density in organic forms. ✒️ 🪾 #inkdrawing

A black ink line drawing on white sketchbook paper depicting a close-up of a tree. A thick vertical trunk on the right side extends large, heavy branches horizontally across the page to the left. The tree is illustrated using dense, layered, flowing black lines to create a rough bark texture, with a few sparse, thin twigs branching off into the empty white space

Peter Barnard@peterbarnard· Jul 10

Zeuhl summer.

Album cover for Magma's '1.001° Centigrades'. The background is a vibrant, swirling mix of fiery reds, oranges, yellows, and purples, resembling molten lava or a nebula. At the top, the band name 'MAGMA' is written in large, purple, bubble-style lettering with a white outline, situated above the album title '1.001° CENTIGRADES' in stylized white text. In the lower half, a solid black, triangular shape resembling a mountain or volcano rises upward. A curving, bright rainbow path flows down the center of this black mountain, originating from a glowing, spiked, dark purple and gold emblem with claw-like shapes hovering at the peak.

Peter Barnard@peterbarnard· Jul 5

Been wanting to dig into this for a while, despite already knowing the who's who of minimalism. On Minimalism: Documenting a Musical Movement (2023, University of California Press, Ed. Kerry O'Brien, William Robin)

A paperback book titled "ON MINIMALISM: DOCUMENTING A MUSICAL MOVEMENT" by Kerry O'Brien and William Robin rests on a textured wooden table. The cover features a black-and-white photograph of a performance on a herringbone-patterned floor. In the upper portion, dancers in light, flowing garments are captured in motion with their arms extended. In the lower foreground, a group of musicians is gathered around a large marimba, actively playing it. The title text is superimposed over the image in large, thin, white sans-serif capital letters.

Peter Barnard@peterbarnard· Jul 2

Crossing the threshold. A quick study in value inversions and heavy contrast. ⬛️⬜️ #InkDrawing

A high-contrast ink drawing on white paper. Writhing, organic tendrils pass through a geometric, semi-circular boundary. Inside the boundary, the background is filled with strict, parallel horizontal lines, and the tendrils are pure white negative space. Outside the boundary, the background is plain white, and the tendrils are rendered in heavy, dark black ink, creating a striking optical value inversion.

Peter Barnard@peterbarnard· Jun 30

Heavy foliage ✒️🌲 #inkdrawing

A black and white ink sketch in an open sketchbook resting on a wooden surface. Dominating the center of the composition is a large, thick tree trunk, heavily textured with dense, wavy vertical lines to depict rough bark. In the foreground, short, jagged vertical strokes suggest tall grass or underbrush at the base of the tree. The background features stylized mountains or large rock formations on either side, shaded with varied diagonal hatching and solid black patches for contrast. The sky is rendered with straight horizontal lines, interspersed with a few outlined, puffy clouds.

Peter Barnard@peterbarnard· Jun 29

Aleatory improvisations played on various pawn-shop instruments, sharing common ground with the works of Stockhausen and Cornelius Cardew’s scratch orchestras. Sun Ra And His Astro Infinity Arkestra – Strange Strings (2008, Saturn Research) #jazzsky

A close-up shot of a black vinyl record actively playing on a turntable, with the tonearm and needle resting on the grooves. The record has a solid, bright red center label. Propped up directly behind the turntable is the album jacket for "Strange Strings" by Sun Ra and his Astro Infinity Arkestra. The cover art is a stylized, high-contrast black-and-white photograph with bold white typography.

Peter Barnard@peterbarnard· Jun 26

Jazzviolence. The Peter Brötzmann Octet – Machine Gun (2018, CIEN FUEGOS) #jazzsky

Peter Barnard@peterbarnard· Jun 23

New Outertones: Pride. 25/06/2026, 7pm CEST @campradio.bsky.social Eastman → Galás → Russell → Monk → Lockwood. Minimalist classical / experimental vocal / chamber / electroacoustic field recording. 57 minutes. Queer history as sound.

A white page featuring multiple horizontal five-line musical staves. Instead of traditional musical notes, the staves are filled with scattered, abstract black ink marks, including dots, short dashes, curved strokes, and erratic scribbles, resembling avant-garde or graphic musical notation.

Peter Barnard@peterbarnard· Jun 13

Surreal clavinet dialogues and a self-contained epic of adventure and tragedy on Side B. Sun Ra And His Astro Infinity Arkestra – Atlantis (2026 reissue, Klimt Records) #vinyl #nowplaying #jazzsky

A black-and-white vinyl record album sleeve stands upright behind a turntable spinning a solid white vinyl record.
The top portion of the album cover features text in a stylized, blocky font. On the top left, it reads "SUN-RA and his ASTRO INFINITY ARKESTRA," and on the top right, the word "Atlantis" is written in a jagged, aggressive script. Below the text is a large, rectangular, woodcut-style illustration in high-contrast black and white. It depicts a dark, spiky sun rising or setting over a stylized body of water filled with numerous wide-open, staring eyes.
In the foreground, the clean white vinyl record sits on a black turntable platter, with the tonearm and needle resting on its surface. The white center label of the record contains text that appears upside down from this perspective.

Peter Barnard@peterbarnard· Jun 12

The original 1968 recording. Blueprint for minimalism that was less austere than the likes of La Monte Young or early Steve Reich. Terry Riley – In C (1968, CBS) #vinyl #nowplaying #classicalsky

A vinyl record with a bright orange CBS label spinning on a black turntable. Behind it stands the album cover for Terry Riley's "In C," featuring an abstract, tan-colored design with horizontal musical staff lines and stylized cloud patterns.

Peter Barnard@peterbarnard· Jun 10

RIP James Blood Ulmer (1940 - 2026) Finding Tales of Captain Black during an intense exploratory phase in the early 2010s blew the doors wide open.

A black-and-white photograph of musician James Blood Ulmer playing a hollow-body electric guitar. He is wearing a patterned robe, a head covering, and glasses, captured under dramatic, high-contrast lighting against a dark background.

Peter Barnard@peterbarnard· Jun 10

A pilgrim's progress kind of album. John Coltrane - Ascension (1982, Jasmine Records) #jazzsky

A close-up photograph of a black vinyl record playing on a turntable. The record features a light green center label with the word "Jasmine" printed in a stylized yellow font.
Standing upright directly behind the turntable is the album cover for *Ascension* by John Coltrane. The cover displays a black-and-white photograph of a man in a suit sitting on a stool and holding a saxophone. The text "Ascension" and "John Coltrane" is printed in the upper right corner of the sleeve.

Peter Barnard@peterbarnard· Jun 8

Thoroughly Aumgn’d. Can - Tago Mago (2014, Spoon Records)

Peter Barnard@peterbarnard· May 31

Fief at Fortress Festival, Scarborough Spa.

Peter Barnard@peterbarnard· May 30

This is the ideal make body. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.

A black-and-white, pen-and-ink style book illustration of a surreal humanoid figure. The figure's torso and arms are composed of, or encased within, a dense, complex network of spheres connected by curved rods, closely resembling a three-dimensional ball-and-stick molecular model. Protruding from the top is a tiny, stalk-like head with two small eyes on separate, shorter stalks. Below the molecular structure, the figure has solid, cylindrical legs shaded heavily with vertical lines. These legs feature segmented, disc-like joints at the knees and ankles, and they end in bare, naturalistic human feet. The figure is set against a background of dense, fine horizontal parallel lines.

Peter Barnard@peterbarnard· May 26

RIP (1930 - 2026)

This is the cover of a book titled "THE NOTEBOOKS OF SONNY ROLLINS," with the words "THE NOTEBOOKS OF" in magenta and "SONNY ROLLINS" in orange. Below the title, smaller orange text reads, "EDITED BY SAM V. H. REESE."
The main image is a black-and-white photograph of jazz musician Sonny Rollins. He is shown from the chest up, positioned on the right side of the frame, holding a saxophone to his mouth and looking directly at the camera. He is wearing a light-colored flat cap, a dark jacket, and a light shirt. He is standing on the pedestrian walkway of a bridge with a large, crisscrossing steel framework visible behind and above him. Strong shadows from the bridge structure fall across the wooden planks of the walkway, which stretches away to the left into the background.

Peter Barnard@peterbarnard· May 18

Throwback to this work made in 2014 turning photos into raw data and then exporting it back into photoshop.

A black-and-white image split horizontally into two distinct sections. The top portion is a high-contrast photograph of clouds or smoke against a dark sky. The bottom portion abruptly changes to a structured, digital-looking artifact consisting of horizontal bands, with a lighter central rectangle made up of thick, noisy, static-filled lines against a darker banded background.

Peter Barnard@peterbarnard· May 16

Something in the foundation. ✒️👁️ #ArtSky #inkdrawing

$A high-contrast black and white ink drawing. A heavy, jagged black fracture runs diagonally down the white page. The area immediately surrounding the fracture is covered in stippled ink and short, rough marks, creating the texture of crumbling plaster or a decaying wall. Concealed within the solid black void of the crack, a single, realistic human eye is drawn looking directly out at the viewer. The overall atmosphere is dark, surreal, and unsettling.$

Peter Barnard@peterbarnard· May 15

Revisiting this today. Somewhat dated with its mid-nineties new-age tropes (in a charmingly hauntological way) but still so lushly organic in places. #CDfriday #nowplaying The Future Sound Of London - Lifeforms (1994, Virgin)