I have six performances scheduled for October and November, with more being planned. Three happen in the Third Annual Chicago Calling Arts Festival (CCAF3), presented in various locations from October 1—12. Look further down for my other three post-CCAF shows held at Enemy, Myopic, and Elastic. Please check the CCAF3 Schedule page and this web page in case of last-minute schedule changes.

• 7 p.m. Friday, October 3 with Chicago Phonography

  Brett Balogh, Todd Carter, Chad Clark, John Kannenberg, Joshua Manchester, Jayve Montgomery, and Steve Barsotti joining us from the Seattle Phonographers Union

  ELASTIC
  2830 N. Milwaukee Ave., 2nd floor
  Chicago, IL  60618
  www.elasticrevolution.com
  $10 suggested donation

  I will also briefly introduce the World Listening Project this evening.

• 6 p.m. Saturday, October 4 with Steve Barsotti — improvisation with invented instruments and electronics — from Seattle celebrating the release of our new CD, Rarebit

  Heaven Gallery

  1550 N. Milwaukee Ave., 2nd floor

  Chicago, IL 60622

  www.heavengallery.com

  $10 suggested donation

Also featuring:

“Post-Katrina Stories”, a film by Stan West; Hanah Jon Taylor (saxophones) and Tom Abbs (upright bass); The Suite Unraveling, in collaboration with Asimina Chremos (movement) and Sarah Bendix (puppetry); and the quartet of Jeb Bishop (trombone), Craig Taborn (piano), Fred Lonberg-Holm (cello), Tim Daisy (drums)

• 8 p.m. Wednesday, October 8 with Glenn Weyant (invented instruments), Matt Weston (percussion), and Michael Erzen’s Artbot

  
  Peter Jones Gallery

  1806 West Cuyler, 2nd Floor

  Chicago IL 60613

  (773) 472-6725

  www.peterjonesgallery.com

  $10 suggested donation
  

  Read Bill Meyers critics’ choice in the Chicago Reader

Performances following CCAF3…

• 8:00 p.m. Sunday, October 12 with Auris—Julia Miller (guitar), Christopher Preissing (flute, voice, electronics), and Guillermo Gregorio (clarinet) on a bill with Unhappy Atlas and Bokeh

  Enemy
  1550 N. Milwaukee Ave., 3rd floor
  Chicago IL 60622
  www.enemysound.com (please bookmark the new url)
  

• 7:30 p.m. Monday, October 20 with Brian Labycz (electronics)

  Myopic Books

  1564 N. Milwaukee Ave

  Chicago, IL 60622

  www.myopicbookstore.com

  Free admission, donations welcome

• 9:00 p.m. Friday, November 14 with Auris: Julia Miller (guitar), Christopher Preissing (flute, voice, electronics), Guillermo Gregorio (clarinet)

  ELASTIC
  2830 N. Milwaukee Ave., 2nd floor
  Chicago, IL 60618
  www.elasticrevolution.com
  $10 suggested donation

Rarebit

by Steve Barsotti and Eric Leonardson

Transparency CD0125

Performed and recorded with Steve Barsotti at Experimental Sound Studio in Chicago. From 1994 until 1999 we performed as a duo, and with other local and internationally known artists, including Dan Burke (Illusion of Safety), Carol Genetti, Fergus Kelly, Tatsu Aoki, Chris Heenan, Yuko Nexus6, Yasuhiro Otani, Satoru Wono, Claude Wiley, and many more.

Description:

Rarebit is the culmination of a four-year project in electroacoustic music by sound artists and instrument inventors Steve Barsotti and Eric Leonardson. Their self-built instruments produce remarkable sounds that belie their humble origin. Barsotti and Leonardson’s sense of musical form arises from their deep attention to the individual essences of sounds, rather than the conventional grid of harmony and meter. What results is abstract sound composition that possesses a communicative style. Rarebit will draw comparisons to the sound palettes and ethereal soundscapes of such intrepid purveyors of “left field” and exploratory music as Hal Rammel, Hugh Davies, and Bob Rutman. Nine tracks. Running time 72 minutes.

Rarebit can be purchased from Transparency for $15 ($12 plus $3 postage) to meridianavenue@yahoo.com via PayPal.

My article “The Springboard: The Joy of Piezo Disk Pickups for Amplified Coil Springs” is available now, published in Leonardo Music Journal, Volume 17, by the MIT Press. This year’s issue offers a wealth of articles by Bert Bongers, David Toop, and Peter Blasser, with artists’ statements by Richard Lerman, Brett Ian Balogh, César Dávila-Irizarry, Vic Rawlings, James Fei, Neil Feather, Robert Poss, Kyle Lapidus and Tali Hinkis, hans w. koch, Laura Emelianoff, among many more. Due to the overhwelming response to the call-for-articles an online suplement has been added to accommodate submissions that could not fit within the print version (90 pages) of the journal. For more info, see the Table of Contents: http://www.leonardo.info/isast/journal/toclmj17.html

The journal’s companion CD compilation, “The Art of the Gremlin: Inventive Musicians, Curious Devices” curated by Sarah Washington, features 17 tracks by over 18 electronic artists and instrument inventors. Among them are Norbert Möslang, Haco, Leonardo Di Crappio, Rhodri Davies, Knut Aufermann and Tetsuo Kogawa, and Toshimaru Nakamura.