I have been invited to speak about the World Listening Project at the Canadian Association for Sound Ecology (CASE)’s 4th International Soundscape Retreat & Symposium: Negotiating Space/Place In the Changing Soundscape. It happens on Gabriola Island, British Columbia from June 12-14. Hildegard Westerkamp, Barry Truax, Charlie Fox, and Eric Powell are also speaking. I will also play my work in the soundscape concert to be held on Saturday, June 13.

For full details please visit www.acousticecology.ca.

Wednesday, May 13, 2009 - 6:30pm
SAIC Ballroom, 112 S. Michigan Avenue
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago

I perform with Global Warming featuring Elbio Barilari (guitar), Guillermo Gregorio(clarinet), Jeb Bishop (trombone), and Eric Hochberg (double bass), to celebrate the Poetry Center’s 36th Annual Reading Series.

Distinguished authors Stuart Dybek and Yusef Komunyakaa will read their work along with emerging artists Rachel Webster and the winners of the Poetry Center’s Hands on Stanzas Student Inaugural Poem Contest.

For more information about tickets and the contest visit http://poetrycenter.org

2—5 PM, SUNDAY May 3, 2009
NEW MUSIC at the legendary GREEN MILL

curated by Julia Miller

This afternoon I perform (on springboard) in Julia Miller’s microtonal composition for many notes or many players.

Green Mill Jazz Club
4802 N. Broadway Ave.
Chicago, IL 60640

773-878-5552

www.greenmilljazz.com

Admission: $5

Julia wrote (4/29/09):

I’m really happy to announce that we now have a blog!!!

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The World Listening Project and Locus Sonus are collaborating to populate the Locustream Map at http://nujus.net/~locusonus/site/streams/map/

You are invited to particpate. How-to info is provided here:  http://locusonus.org/w/index.php?page=Locustream+Participation

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10 a.m.–6 p.m. Monday, April 20

Listening to Our Planet is a daylong event that celebrates the Earth and its natural beauty and resources. This multi-disciplinary event is a part of Columbia College’s Critical Encounters Earth Week 2009 program, organized under the theme of “Human / Nature”.

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Plasticene performs The Gist presented as part of Collaboraction’s 9th Annual SKETCHBOOK Festival, April 16 - May 10

The Building Stage

412 N Carpenter

Chicago, IL

Link for showtimes.

Directed by Mark Comiskey
Created and performed by
Laura Fisher, Michael Macias,
& Brian Shaw
Sound by Eric Leonardson

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8:00 p.m., Saturday March 28

I perform at Enemy with Daniel Fishkin, daxophone player extraordinaire. The Green Pasture Happiness will open: Aaron Zarzutzki (no-output turntable), Daniel Fandiño (electronics), and Brian Labycz (electronics).

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Plasticene performs in the Objects in Motion Festival, a three week festival of puppetry, toy-theater, and object-based performance opening Saturday, March 14, 2009, at The Building Stage: www.buildingstage.com.

We’ve taken some explorations and put them into a 17-minute low-tech chamber-piece called Light Cycle (featured in Program A) , performed by Mark Comiskey, Brian Shaw, and Laura Fisher, directed by Dexter Bullard, with me providing sound.

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I composed music for the world premiere production of Darren Callahan’s The White Airplane, directed by Susan Padveen and performed by the Polarity Ensemble Theatre.The White Airplane will run February 13 - March 22, 2009 at Polarity’s new space in the Josephinum Academy, 1500 N. Bell, Chicago.

Call 1-800-838-3006 for tickets. Join us for opening night, Monday February 16th!

Here is a download link to one song I composed (the link will expire in 14 days).

My compostion includes music created with Anna Friz (melodica, accordion, electronics) in Chicago, June 2008.

Read The White Airplane Reviews

Watch the trailer:
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7:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 28 with Bryan Day, , sound artist, instrument inventor, and founder of free music label Public Eyesore

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

Bryan Day and I will open for Evidence, Vertonen, and Katchmare

About Bryan Day

Omaha, Nebraska based improviser and concept artist Bryan Day (b. 1979) has been involved in the avant-garde music community for the last 12 years.  He started the, then Minneapolis-based, free music label Public Eyesore in 1997 as an outlet for his works using homemade electronic and mechanical sound generating devices, and to this day continues the process of expanding upon these themes.  Merging structure and chaos, Day uses an elaborate notation system and cellular automata based computer programs of his own design, along with the expressionist cues of visual art and modern dance for his inspiration. Rather than be known as a musician, he prefers to be known as an impulsive conceptualist, searching for difficult and inconvenient analogs to the contemporary experience using sound.

Bryan Day’s personal web page: www.publiceyesore.com/sistrum.htm

Myspace: www.myspace.com/daybryan

Public Eyesore: www.publiceyesore.com

Evidence is on a short Midwest tour, performing their Losperus project based on thrift store finds.