Eldar Baruch

For over a decade, I've been creating live music for Contact Improvisation (CI) festivals, jams, workshops, and classes across the USA, Germany, France, Poland, Portugal, Israel, South Africa, and China.

As a CI practitioner myself, I understand the dance from within. 
My music is driven by the unique needs of this art form: to be attentive, follow the subtle shifts in energy, support moments of stillness and elevation, and honor the intimate dialogue between bodies in space. My work is to create a supportive sonic container that invites, inspires, and provides grounding - a space for exploration, attentiveness, and connection.

My live improvisation combines a diverse palette of instruments, including piano, synthesizers, melodica, ukulele, kalimba, electronic textures, and live looping. This allows me to build layered soundscapes that evolve with the dance. I am attentive to the room's energy, communicating and responding to the weight, breath, and the collective rhythm of the community.

I welcome collaborations with dancers and CI communities - through shared dialogue, sound, and movement.
Feel free to reach out via DM.
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Note: These recordings are fragments of live improvised music created for Contact Improvisation dance jams. Their musical development and timing are shaped to support and enrich the ongoing, danceful dialogue of movement and connection.