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I contributed a field recording to Mary Jey’s show on Sounds of Destruction for this month’s Giant Ear broadcast on Sunday, June 28 from 7-9pm (Eastern). Listen on free103point9.org (streamed on the net).

Please note that the time is US Eastern time.

Giant Ear is curated and organized by the New York Society for Acoustic Ecology.

Eric

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Mary Jeys <maryjeys [at] gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 1:28 PM
Subject: Sounds of Destruction- radio from Free 103.9
To: <mary [at] maryjeys.com>
Hello Friends,

I’ve just finished uploading my radio piece for this Sunday’s Giant
Ear))) show on Free 103.9. The show will air tomorrow, Sunday from
7-9pm. If you miss the first airing, it will play again in the same
slot for the following three Sundays. In addition, you can find the
.mp3 link to download or stream here:

http://www.free103point9.org/events/2149/

Thanks for listening. It is a two-hour show … On destruction: the
scuzziest, dirtiest, grindiest show yet. Be prepared. Lock the doors.

Cheers,
Mary

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I perform in the GBO: Homelistening series with Carol Genetti (voice), Friday, June 19 at…

Carol and I have been performing together since 1997. Our first CD, Animus was released in 1998, and is perhaps unique for its use of voice and Springboard, an invented instrument that employs coil springs, rubber bands, bowed wood in order to produce a surprising range of timbres and microtones.

About Carol Genetti:

Carol Genetti is a vocalist, composer and installation artist. Her work is focused on the interplay between the voice as an expressive musical instrument and its extension into the sound-making realm. She has studied a variety of techniques including Western singing, Hindustani classical voice and Bulgarian folk music. Through these studies and her own explorations, she has developed a personal yet universal palette that is an abstraction of “extended” voice sounds - breaths, overtones, and disconnected textual bits, squeaks, growls, non-verbal tones - sounds that evoke unconscious emotions and human physicality.
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I have been invited to speak about the World Listening Project at the Canadian Association for Sound Ecology (CASE)’s 4th International Soundscape Retreat & Symposium: Negotiating Space/Place In the Changing Soundscape. It happens on Gabriola Island, British Columbia from June 12-14. Hildegard Westerkamp, Barry Truax, Charlie Fox, and Eric Powell are also speaking. I will also play my work in the soundscape concert to be held on Saturday, June 13.

For full details please visit www.acousticecology.ca.

PLASTICENE 13th ANNUAL PHYSICAL THEATER INTENSIVE: JUNE 13—18, 2009

When:

• Saturday 6/13 1-5 pm
• Sunday 6/14 1-5 pm
• Monday 6/15 6:15-10:00 pm
• Tuesday 6/16 6:15-10:00 pm
• Wednesday 6/17 6:15-10:00 pm
• Thursday 6/18 6:15-10:00 pm

Where: UIC Studio Theater, 1044 W. Harrison Street, Chicago

Fee: $195 early registration (before 5/26) $225 thereafter. Send a check and contact info to Plasticene, 1849 N. Damen Avenue #1, Chicago IL 60647

What: 24 hours of physical theater training, improvisation, and creation for anyone who wants to move, innovate, develop, and play…

Plasticene offers one of the best and most challenging workshops of the summer! Plasticene’s Intensive is a great way to get physical with one of Chicago’s most critically-acclaimed experimental theater companies. This exciting and  challenging workshop emphasizes acting and theater founded in the body,  space, and objects. Plasticene’s work has gained city-wide recognition as one of the most innovative opportunities to gain heightened awareness of themselves and the use of space and the body in theater.

The Intensive is a perfect introduction to the tools and process used to develop Plasticene performances. The process is a mixture of diverse techniques and experiments  from many traditions including yoga, corporal mime, Boal, Grotowski, Zaporah, object work, and contact improvisation. This session builds links from physical control to spatial awareness to contact improvisation to object encounters and culminates in group creation.  Each day includes a warm-up, technique and improvisation. Live, improvised music accompanies three classes.

No previous training is necessary—degree of difficulty can be determined by each participant.  Various company members teach throughout.  You may register if you have to miss one session, but no more than one.

The World Listening Project has built a public sound installation for the Synesthetic Plan of Chicago, co-curated by Annie Heckman and Daniel Godston, in the Visitor Information Center, at the Chicago Cultural Center (77 E. Randolph Street).  My Flickr photostream shows the construction of the WLP’s installation entitled the “Acoustic Mirror of the World.”

For the installation we have built a platform with stereo low frequency transducers underneath. Visitors will be invited to touch and stand on it to feel the recorded soundscapes the WLP has collected from various places around the world.

This idea is inspired, in part, by Ricardo Huisman’s “Super Sonic Sound Scape Shoes.” This blog post on Beat Portal describes his piece. Here is Ricardo’s photo of me standing inside it, taken at last year’s Deep Wireless/Radio without Boundaries conference in Toronto.

Nightclubs also use low-frequency or bass transducers to vibrate their dancefloor. One such club is Fabric in London. They employ 400 transducers and call it a “bodysonic” dancefloor. UK sound artist Kaffe Matthews has used bass transducer to make a “sonic bed,” and at the 2006 RadioREVOLTEN festival for the future of radio a different sound bed was activated by placing the transducers directly on whoever laid on it.

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The Locustream Audio Tardis is being shown and played at La Force de l’Art 02 in Paris downtown (Grand-Palais) now until May 17.

http://locusonus.org/soundmap/

Locus Sonus : Locustream Audio Tardis
A live journey through a worldwide network of open microphones:

A rapid, imaginary journey between various open mikes of the Locustream project, initiated by the Locus Sonus lab. All the sounds that you hear were transmitted live from the distant locations where volunteers taking part in the project have set up microphones which permanently stream their chosen soundscape via the web. By switching from stream to stream and automatically sequencing the sound diffusion of each available Locustream webmics, we propose an analogy to the actual listening experience which you can experience for yourself on the Locustream Sound Map if you chose to listen to the Locus Sonus streams on a daily basis.
In parallel of the sound diffusion of each webmic, a black screen shows the name of the ‘locustreamer”, his location and the local time. The Tardis online process is automatic and reads the available streams.

After May 17 the Locustream Sound Map remains on and open not only for you to listen but  participate by becoming a “web-miker.”

My personal participation includes the “chicago_westside” stream, and by co-directing the collaboration of the World Listening Project and Locus Sonus.

Wednesday, May 13, 2009 - 6:30pm
SAIC Ballroom, 112 S. Michigan Avenue
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago

I perform with Global Warming featuring Elbio Barilari (guitar), Guillermo Gregorio(clarinet), Jeb Bishop (trombone), and Eric Hochberg (double bass), to celebrate the Poetry Center’s 36th Annual Reading Series.

Distinguished authors Stuart Dybek and Yusef Komunyakaa will read their work along with emerging artists Rachel Webster and the winners of the Poetry Center’s Hands on Stanzas Student Inaugural Poem Contest.

For more information about tickets and the contest visit http://poetrycenter.org

2—5 PM, SUNDAY May 3, 2009
NEW MUSIC at the legendary GREEN MILL

curated by Julia Miller

This afternoon I perform (on springboard) in Julia Miller’s microtonal composition for many notes or many players.

Green Mill Jazz Club
4802 N. Broadway Ave.
Chicago, IL 60640

773-878-5552

www.greenmilljazz.com

Admission: $5

Julia wrote (4/29/09):

I’m really happy to announce that we now have a blog!!!

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On April 4th WFMU threw a launch party for its FreeMusicArchive.org, a curated blog site for free and legally downloadable music. WFMU is currently the longest running freeform radio station in the United States. It is listener-supported, broadcasting at 91.1 FM in New York, at 90.1 FM in the Hudson Valley, and on the Internet with a wealth of online offerings. Among them is “Beware of the Blog.” Here’s its February 20 post about the launch party for the Free Music Archive.

The Free Music Archive offers free downloads under Creative Commons and other licenses. Here is the direct link to my tracks on the Free Music Archive: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Leonardson/

If you would like to hear more of my music and sound work on this archive, let me know. I can be encouraged to release more. Many audio excerpts from my past performances and compositions are also on my “composer & performer” page, with record releases listed on my discography page.

The Free Music Archive is also curated by KEXP, Issue Project Room, and Halas.am.

The World Listening Project and Locus Sonus are collaborating to populate the Locustream Map at http://nujus.net/~locusonus/site/streams/map/

You are invited to particpate. How-to info is provided here:  http://locusonus.org/w/index.php?page=Locustream+Participation

Two events using the Locustream are underway in Hong Kong, from April 26th to May 3rd, and then in Paris, from May 14th to 20th.

More info about…

…World Listening Project: http://www.worldlisteningproject.org

…Locus Sonus:  http://locusonus.org/

My stream is Locustream @ chicago_westside.ogg

Even if you don’t care to open a web-mic, you can still visit and listen to the open web-mic streams.