Ruth Barberán (Barcelona, 1966), audiovisual artist, combines her sonorous works (using trumpet and amplified objects) with those in the videocreation area. She started to centre her work in the free improvisation since her integration in 1999 in the IBA collective of Barcelona. At present she has two stable groups inside this field: i treni inerti (with Alfredo Costa Monteiro) and a trio with Ferran Fages and Alfredo Costa Monteiro. Besides this she collaborates frequently with other musicians such as Pablo Rega, Dorothee Schmitz, Guillermo Torres and Margarida García.
Ruth Barberán has participated in a great number of national and international festivals. She has also performed in the Tiny Festival of Barcelona in 2004, amplifying with contact microphones different objects (cardboard, wood, metal, bass strings, etc), and also in the Tiny Festival of the last Experimentaclub'05. Now in this 2006 she contributes with the making of a video piece from which the musician Pablo Rega will develop his sonorous work.

• Ura (with i treni inerti; Matt Davis and Alfredo Costa Monteiro) (CD, Creative Sources, 2003)
• Atami (Ezaki / Barberán / Unami / Fages / Okura / Costa Monteiro) (CD, Hibarimusic, 2003)
• Capacidad de Pérdida (Ruth Barberán) (CD, Creative Sources, 2004)
• Atolón (Barberán / Fages / Costa Monteiro) (CD, Rossbin, 2004)
• Istmo (Barberán / Fages / Costa Monteiro) (CD, Creative Sources, 2005)
• Octante (Margarida García / Fages / Costa Monteiro / Barberán) (CD, l'innomable, 2005)