7:30 p.m., Sunday I perform with Auris (Christopher Preissing and Julia Miller) in the…

Guitar Faculty Recital of
Jazz, Folk, & Contemporary Guitar at
Music Institute of Chicago
Evanston Campus & Nichols Concert Hall
1490 Chicago Avenue
Evanston, IL 60201
(847) 905-1500
www.musicinstituteofchicago.org/
Admission: Free

Directions: MIC is located at the southwest corner of Grove St. and Chicago Ave., across from Raymond Park (Davis stop on the el and Metra). View Map

Chicago Phonography with Todd Carter, Chad Clark, Chris Hammes, Michael Hartmann, Eric Leonardson, Joshua Manchester, Robert Pleshar, Patrick Scott, Aaron Zarzutzki, and Philip von Zweck.

Brown Rice

4432 N Kedzie Ave
Chicago IL 60625
www.brownricemusic.org

9:00 p.m. (Doors open 30 minutes before show)
$6 suggested donation, $4 for students

Directions: Brown Rice is small storefront located a half block north of the Montrose-Kedzie intersection, a few blocks south of the Kedzie station on the CTA Brown Line. There is a small sign over the entrance that reads “Perfect”. View Map.

Background: Initiated by Chad Clark through the chi-improv Yahoo! Group, Chicago Phonography is a way to gather people interested in producing and broadcasting unprocessed field recordings (made in and around Chicago) as an ensemble in a context of live improvisation. This group has never performed together before and is inspired, in part, by the Seattle Phonographers’ Union.

Choice quote: “nature performs and we provide the secretarial services”—R. Murray Schafer

Tune in to Something Else, Chicago’s only weekly radio program of audio art, experimental music, and live performance in Chicago, hosted by Philip von Zweck since 1995.

This Sunday’s performers are:

• AURIS
• Eric Leonardson and Blake Edwards duo
• VERTONEN

Listen in every Sunday from 10 p.m. until 2 a.m. (US CST/GMT -6) WLUW-FM 88.7

Outside the local broadcast range? Listen via webcast.

SAIC’s Waveforms presents sound works and performances by students from the Sound Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, on Friday, May 2 at the Fine Arts Building (Curtis Hall)
7:00-10:00pm, 410 S. Michigan Avenue 10th floor, Curtis Hall, FREE ADMISSION

Students in my Instrument Construction course will open, performing as an ensemble of invented and hybrid electronic and acoustic instruments, during Looptopia.
Here are some photos of the instruments that the students will be performing on:

Tune in and listen to White Noise Phantom Room Hour, a special live radio experiment on Free Radio SAIC.

When: 2:00 to 3:00 pm [US CST (GMT -6)] Thursday, April 17, 2008

Where: http://freeradiosaic.org (QuickTime required)

Produced and performed by students of Eric Leonardson’s Introduction To Sound course.

Travel through space while staying in one place.

Each student will give a tour through a “room” or “place” they have created. There are eleven students and thus, eleven rooms that each will lead you from one student’s radiophonic room to the next for one hour.

We will enjoy hearing your feedback during the show. Call 312.345.3805 or use the real-time messaging.

9:00pm, Friday April 11

4432 N Kedzie Avenue
Chicago IL 60625
Suggested donation: $5
www.brownricemusic.org

Doors open 30 minutes before the show begins.

Auris
Eric Leonardson — springboard
Julia Miller — guitars, plucked instruments, electronics
Chris Preissing — flute, voice

YouTube: www.youtube.com/auristrio
MySpace: www.myspace.com/auristrio

also performing:

(from Oakland, California) Aurora Josephson — voice
Guillermo Gregorio — clarinet and alto saxophone
Jerome Bryerton — percussion

CCC presents Live Digital Performances IV
with Auris

7:30pm Saturday, February 23, 2008
Casa de Sandia
1359 W. 16th St.
Chicago, IL 60608
Admission: Free/donation
Doors open at 6:30 with light appetizers.

Auris is:
Julia Miller — guitar, voice, electronics
Chris Preissing — flute, voice, electronics
Eric Leonardson — springboard

Auris YouTube profile: www.youtube.com/auristrio
Auris MySpace profile: www.myspace.com/auristrio
Chicago Composers’ Consortium: www.c3composers.org/

Bridges, Arts at Large new music series

7:00 pm Wednesday, February 20
Lincoln Park Cultural Center, 2045 N. Lincoln Park West

Chicago, IL 60614 Tel: 773.248.1667
Admission: Free (seating is limited to only 50 people)
Arts at Large http://www.aalchicago.org/

I will be performing on the Springboard, my self-built instrument pictured above, with electronics. This will be my first solo performance since the 2007 Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium, and the first evening length solo since the 2006 RadioRevolten Festival.

To learn more about the Springboard visit my “experimental instruments” page with links to the 2007 Gearwire videos: ericleonardson.org/instruments/index.html

Eric Leonardson on MySpace: www.myspace.com/ericleonardson
Eric Leonardson on YouTube: www.youtube.com/ericleonardson

7:30pm Thursday, January 31, 2008

Krannert Art Museum, 500 East Peabody Drive, Champaign, Illinois.

Auris is a Chicago-based trio that performs original electroacoustic music on traditional and invented instruments. Its performances combine improvisation and compositions using non-traditional scores and text.

Julia Miller — guitar, voice, electronics
Chris Preissing — flute, voice, electronics
Eric Leonardson — springboard

MySpace profile: www.myspace.com/auristrio
YouTube profile: www.youtube.com/auristrio

Chicago’s pioneer physical theater company Plasticene premieres its latest work “Until One Falls” for one night only at Miami University’s Gates-Abegglen Theatre Center for Performing Arts in Oxford, Ohio.

8:00pm Friday, January 25, 2008

Gates-Abegglen Theatre
Oxford, Ohio 45056
Tickets: Public $12, Senior $10, MU Student/Youth $9

Until One Falls is directed by Dexter Bullard and performed by Mark Cominskey, Sharon Göpfert, Brian Shaw, and Eric Leonardson.