Published January 19, 2012 in the Chicago Reader’s “Show us your [____]” section, by Kevin Warwick.

Photo by Andrea Bauer

Gregory O’Drobinak, Eric Leonardson, and Ed Herrmann
play the Baschet Aluminum Piano

2:00 pm, Friday, September 30

Museum of Contemporary Art
220 East Chicago Avenue
Chicago IL 60611

Admission to the museum is $12 or $7 students. Free for SAIC students. There is no extra charge for the performance.

This is another chance to hear a rare musical instrument - the “aluminum piano” designed by Francois and Bernard Baschet, and owned by the Museum of Contemporary Art. The performance will last about 45 minutes and is part of  “Motor Cocktail: Sound and Movement Art of the 1960s,” an exhibition that runs through October.

More event information:

http://www.mcachicago.org/programs/event_detail.php?id=921

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9:00 PM Friday, September 23

Annette Krebs / Eric Leonardson Duo
Aaron Zarzutzki / Brent Gutzeit Duo
Brian Labycz / Daniel Fandino / Jim Baker Trio
Annette Krebs / Julia Miller Duo

Enemy
1550 N. Milwaukee Avenue, 3rd floor
Chicago IL 60622
www.enemysound.com

Annette Krebs studied music and concert guitar in Frankfurt/Main, and has lived in Berlin since 1993. She has worked intensively in the crossover area between improvisation and composition, exploring the possibilities of the prepared guitar with regard to sound, structure, noise, the mixing of materials, and space.
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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.

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/

Saturday, March 19, 2011, 8:00 p.m.

I perform with Julia Miller and Coppice: Noé Cuéllar and Joseph Kramer, as a part of Articular Facet 2.

Collaboraction CARNAVAL

Double Door

1572 N. Milwaukee, Chicago IL 60622

www.doubledoor.com

$10 general admission, $15 at the door; doors open at 8:00, show begins at 8:30. From the Facebook event: Articular Facet serves as an audio guest artist for Collaboraction’s legendary fundraising party.
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Sunday, March 13 at Enemy

1550 N. Milwaukee Ave., 3rd floor

Chicago IL 60622

www.enemysound.com

Seeded Plain is Bryan Day (Decorah, Iowa) and Jay Kreimer (Lincoln, Nebraska), two experimental instrument makers who have been performing with new and unusual sounds on instruments made from everyday objects and materials. Their Entry Codes CD on Creative Sources (Portugal) was described as “playfully cranky and enjoyable…well worth the listen.” See their March 2011 Mini-Tour schedule here.

Also on the bill:

Aaron Zarzutski + Nick Hoffman
Their LP “PSYCHOPHAGI” on Pilgrim Talk was made using disassembled turntable, sewing machine, and amplified sheet metal.

Pelzwik
Duo from Minneapolis, (Birthday Set with: Dinger/Talking Computron ) “…noisy drone stuff on modified toys with some melodic elements. Probably more accessible than anything anyone else is doing…” http://www.myspace.com/pelzwik

Eric Leonardson
Enemy resident performs with self-built instruments made of coil springs, wood, and other pieces of hand-held, amplified detritus.

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Handheld Audio Art Devices, article published in June at http://cec.concordia.ca/econtact/12_3/

eContact! is the Canadian Electroacoustic Community’s (CEC) online journal of electroacoustics launched in May 1998 as the successor to its print journal, Contact! …published four times a year in French and English. Guest editors have been invited to coordinate one issue per year. Articles, reviews, interviews, commentaries and analyses are featured in the journal, supported by audio and video files. All freely available to the public.

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Recorded at Enemy on April 7, 2010.Visit KuroNekoMusic to listen and watch more of the sessions with Brent Gutzeit, Michael Hartmann, and Aaron Zarzutski.

Dear Friends,

Please join us as my Instrument Construction students perform with their new and unusual musical instruments…

8PM Saturday April 24

Enemy

1550 N. Milwaukee Ave., 3rd floor

Chicago IL 60622

Admission: FREE

Waveforms is a showcase of student sound works held every semester, organized by Sound Department grad students at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). My class will perform as the 8 Ohm Danger Squad. Here’s a video, shot by my TA Kyle Evans, of some of the instruments as they were building and testing:

This semester Ryan Dunn has organized Waveforms under the theme “Remains.”The show includes a performance by Kyle Evans, my TA for Instrument construction, and inventor the electronically modified didgeridoo, performing to real time generated video in addition to this wonderful instrument.