“Open :: House :: Chicago :: Calling” was a Open House Chicago performance that happened in the Fine Arts Building on 10/15/2011. This performance included aural architecture, a performance by a musical ensemble, sounds contributed by artists from other Open House Worldwide cities such as Dublin and New York, and incidental sounds contributed by passers-by in FAB’s lobby and stairway between its first and second floors. Performers and contributors included Eric Leonardson (springboard), Linda O’Keeffe (recordings), Sarah Ritch (cello), Edmund Mooney (recordings), Todd Carter (electronics), and Dan Godston (trumpet).

Untitled from Daily Egyptian on Vimeo.

An online article about my springboard just posted on April 4 in the Daily Egyptian, the newspaper of Southern Illinois University. I was interviewed by Pat Sutphin when I performed in the Outside the Box Music Festival, on Saturday, April 2. You can look and listen to it in the multimedia section. Jay Needham curated the evening of radio art and surround sound works in which I performed on that evening.

Eric Leonardson joins Berlin-based turntablist/sound artist Ignaz Schick, and many others, performing in two nights of experimental music @ Enemy. Doors open at 8:00 p.m. Music starts at 9:00 p.m.

7:30 Saturday, April 2 I will be performing live in an evening of radio art and surround sound works at the Chris Moe Theater, Communications Building at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois.

At 3:30 Sunday, April 3 I will give a lecture about my work in sound. Visit the Outside the Box 2011 website for schedule of renowned guest artists: http://otbsiu.com/

April 15–17, 2011

On Saturday, April 16 I will give a talk about the World Listening Project and give a performance at the CIT Cork School of Music. Pauline Oliveros will also be performing telematically from the US with John Godfrey. On Sunday at 12 p.m. I lead a soundwalk workshop in Cork.

Just Listen is a sound art event initiated by the National Sculpture Factory that will unfold across various venues and sites across Cork and Limerick through April 2011. Just Listen will include installations, performances, talks, workshops events and concerts. Invited artists include: David Toop, Anne Bean, Pauline Oliveros, Michael Prime, Eric Leonardson, Stephen Vitiello, John Godfrey, Sabine Breitsameter, and Nicolas Collins. Just Listen was curated by Danny McCarthy and Sean Taylor.

For further information, download the programme.

I hope you will join me at 7PM this Friday evening, Feb. 18 for a special presentation by sound and media artist Jay Needham, at The (New) Corpse, 1511 N. Milwaukee Ave., 2nd floor, Chicago, Illinois 60622.

Jay will present selections from recent works in a lecture titled Ars Memoria: Several Alternate Histories of Place. Jay will be finishing a chapter on the sounds of Mashinima and planning an evening of radio art and surround sound works for the April 2011 Out of the Box Contemporary Music Festival in Carbondale, Illinois. Jay is an Associate Professor in the Communications Department at Southern Illinois University, and a member of the Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology (MSAE).

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I have organized a monthly series of meetings for the Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology, featuring three public presentations by Jay Needham, Viv Corringham, and Steve Jones. Please bookmark and return to the 2011 Winter/Spring Schedule page as I will update it when more details become available: http://mwsae.org/?p=1198

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My audio work “Get Your Marks On” has been selected for the Erotics of Sound online showcase in conjunction with the Decadence Now! Visions of Excess exhibition at the Rudolfinum Gallerie, in Prague. The show opened September 29, 2010 and runs until January , 2011. Students will be given prompts to use the piece to create a Decadent performance / ritual response as part of their study.

Galerie Rudolfinum
Alšovo nábřeží 12
110 01 Praha 1

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Sunday, October 3 I perform with Chicago Phonography in “Temperatures and Shapes : Arctic Live/Chicago,” part of a Fifth Annual Chicago Calling Arts Festival event that creatively explores the themes of temperatures and shapes – such as ice, mountains, climate change, bodies of water, the shape of things to come – and Arctic Live, which also celebrates the upcoming 50th anniversary of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

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7:30 Thursday, July 22

The Tenth Muse, in An Evening of Original Music and Performance

A new opera by Chicago-based composer Elbio Barilari, The Tenth Muse celebrates the life and poetry of the extraordinary Mexican writer, poet, musician, scientist, thinker and feminist, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. This 40-minute work is performed for one night only in the 5th Latino Theatre Festival (June 19–July 25), in the Owen Theatre at the Goodman.

I perform on springboard with a neo-baroque ensemble performing on period instruments.

This program is part of an evening of original music composed by local artists in association with the Latino Music Festival (Chicago), Lyric Opera of Chicago, Collaboraction and Aguavá New Music Studio. Tickets are $18/$9 (Students w/ID)