Carol Genetti (vocals) and I will be performing a duo set at the final show in the Triage Sound Series:
8PM Tuesday, December 18
Elastic
2830 N Milwaukee, 2nd Fl
Chicago, IL 60618
(773) 772-3616
suggested donation
There will also be performances by Series Founders, Mykel Boyd, and Neil Jendon. See the Elastic events page for latest details.
You can listen to streaming audio of performances from my 2007 tour.
From The Tank, May 2007 
On the free103point9 archive: www.free103point9.org/archives
Jack Wright - Andrew Drury duo,
Anna Friz + Eric Leonardson duo
Co-sponsored by the New York Society for Acoustic Ecology and free103point9. Recorded at The Tank, New York on Thursday, May 31, 2007
Red Room, June 2007
From the Red Room on art@radio: http://art-radio.net
Anna Friz + Eric Leonardson duo
Walter Gross solo. Recorded at the Red Room, Baltimore on Saturday, June 2, 2007
“Dancing Walls…” excerpts
Listen to audio excerpts from “Dancing Walls…” on Anna’s Myspace page: www.myspace.com/littlepeopleintheradio
More audio samples: www.myspace.com/ericleonardson
The Bubble Organ
Aaron Wendel, one of my instrument construction students at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, has a video up about his very cool and unusual Bubble Organ. Watch it on the Gearwire website: http://www.gearwire.com/bubble-organ-lab.html
For a demonstration of my own instrument invention, the Springboard, watch the four videos on Gearwire:
An in-depth text description of the Springboard will be published this year in the Leonardo Music Journal, and another version can be found here on the “experimental instruments” page.
Leonardo Music Journal
“The Springboard: The Joy of Piezo Disk Pickups for Amplified Coil Springs” Forthcoming publication, LMJ 17 due out December 2007.
Radio Territories edited by Erik Granly Jensen and Brandon LaBelle, published by Errant Bodies, w/ accompanying CD.
On Monday, October 7, 2007 Zack Stiglicz, adjunct professor at The School of The Art of Institute of Chicago, unexpectedly died of heart failure. Born in 1952, he was a painter, experimental filmmaker, writer, and and husband to fellow SAIC professor and filmmaker, Shellie Fleming. In the words of Chris Sullivan, “Zack Stiglicz was an exuberant and impassioned person, and we will all miss him greatly.”
This obituary appeared in the Chicago Tribune: www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-hed_stigliczoct11,0,1306302.story
[Sorry, this concert has been canceled.]
7:30pm, November 16
Chicago Composers Forum
Zhou B Art Center
1029 West 35th Street
Chicago, Illinois 60609
Admission FREE!
Improvised Music by Eric Leonardson (springboard), Julia Miller (text, guitar, electronics), and Chris Preissing (flute).
The MUSIC + ART Open House Program is a regular monthly open house at the Zhou B. Center. The Center, featuring galleries and artist studios, and the home of the Chicago Composers Forum office, is located in the Bridgeport neighborhood of Chicago. This monthly non-adjudicated event is open to all composer members and all styles of original music, either live or recorded.
2PM - 5PM Sunday, October 28
Green Mill
4802 N Broadway
Chicago, IL 60640
(773) 878-5552
$5 (age 21 and over)
Premiering the new trio of Julia Miller (text, guitar, electronics), Chris Preissing (flute), and Eric Leonardson (springboard). New Music at the Green Mill is a regular event featuring contemporary art music of all genres. For the full program visit: http://www.newmusicchicago.org/oct_gm.html
7PM - Midnight Friday, October 26
Elastic
2830 N Milwaukee, 2nd Fl
Chicago, IL 60618
(773) 772-3616
$10 suggested donation, $8 for students
A work for radio by Anna Friz and Eric Leonardson. Produced at free103point9’s Wave Farm in upstate, New York…listening below the border separating our “sister cities” of Toronto and Chicago, we propose to listen below the surface of the map. We listen instead for the rhythms of daily movement in our respective places, and seek to enunciate the sounds in the cities that we hear and that haunt our dreams. Gas meters hissing, rain in the sewers after a storm, senior citizens in the cafe, distant “El” trains. In this we begin to play together, to mingle field recordings and music to create modulations of these two places. In so doing we conjure a third, composite, imagined city that resonates somewhere between the two geographical locations.
Musicians, dancers, poets also performing this evening include Paul Hartsaw, Asimina Chremos, Guillermo Gregorio, Divik Ramesh, and many more. Visit the Chicago Calling website for details: www.chicagocalling.org
6PM - 10PM Thursday, October 25
Peter Jones Gallery
1806 West Cuyler, 2nd Floor
Chicago IL 60613
(773) 472-6725
$10 suggested donation
Emerson and Leonardson team up in the 2nd Annual Chicago Calling Arts Festival, scheduled to play at 7:00 PM. This evening includes a movement performance by Timothy Rey, the play “Sign of the Times”, two film screenings, and more.
Chicago Calling features artists working across artistic disciplines and international borders, produced by Borderbend. Visit the Chicago Calling website for details: www.chicagocalling.org
9:30pm Wednesday, October 24
The Empty Bottle
2348 W. Cortez
Chicago IL 60622
(773) 276-3600
$10 (age 21 and over)
Performing a solo set each. Bela Emerson is an electric cellist from England known for her electrifying performance style. She has performed extensively around world, making this her Chicago debut. Visit Bela’s homepage for more info: www.cellobela.com
Leonardson will perform on his original self-built electroacoustic instrument, the Springboard. To learn more about this amazing instrument check out the videos on Gearwire.
