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.

You can watch it here: http://vimeo.com/10216719

“one of the 87 videos on the accompanying DVD to the second edition of Nicolas Collins’s book, Handmade Electronic Music - The Art of Hardware Hacking, published by Routledge in 2009. This 1-minute video was shot and edited by Gretchen Hasse from the original Gearwire.com video interviews about the Springboard.”

Springboard for Hardware Hacking DVD from Eric Leonardson on Vimeo. It only takes a minute to watch!

The 2nd Annual Guthman Musical Instrument Competition ended Saturday, February 27 at Georgia Institute of Technology, in Atlanta. Severe snow storms in New York made it difficult, if not impossible for some entrants to make the trip. I didn’t win a prize, but I did have a highly rewarding experience, some of which I can share with you here in the form of video, images, and links.

Visit this page to read Georgia Tech’s March 15 announcement of the 2010 Guthman Musical Instrument Competition winners.

Steven Litt auditions CrudBox

Steven Litt auditions the CrudBox for the 2nd annual Guthman Musical Instrument competition at Georgia Tech. This is a self-built instrument using solenoids, piezo pickups, and sequencing with an Arduino board. Out of eight finalists Steven was one of the four prize winners. The other winners were Tomas Henriques, Keith McMillen, and Loud Objects. (more…)

My submission for the Second Annual Guthman Musical Instrument Competition was accepted last week. The competition will take place at the Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology on Friday, February 26, 2010 and Saturday February 27, 2010. As mentioned in the earlier post about my recent video, Wired also featured this article about last year’s competition.

I will make more details available here as they become available, or visit the Georgia Tech website.

This evening I uploaded a 5-minute video about the springboard to my youtube account. I made it two years ago with Gretchen Hasse. Please use this link to view: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id0MDuHX1hY

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Sonic Playground with Eric Leonardson

An interactive music performance using the new Lake Crescent playground. Curated by Inferno Mobile Recording Studio.

Tuesday, August 25
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Admission Free
Location :

Lake Crescent #532

1061 E. 41st Street

Chicago, IL 60653

Phone: 312-747-6446

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About the Park District’s Concerts in the Parks series:

Join Eric Leonardson in sonically activating the Lake Crescent Playground. This event is a part of the Park District’s “Concerts in the Parks” series, offering Chicago families a fun, affordable way to spend an evening in their own community. Bring a lawn chair or blanket, but prepare to play and listen to the playground in a totally different way. All concerts are FREE!

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Originally uploaded by giantmolecules
This is Brett Balogh’s Flickr set of the install, opening, and today’s performance. Here’s the direct linked to the set below. Enjoy!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/64339308@N00/sets/72157621846663812/

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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First video is online. More to come.

View the PlastiMover channel:

Over its 13 year history, Plasticene has established itself by working at the forefront of experimental theater in the City of Chicago. We have built a working method and pedagogy developed by teaching college students and working professionals. Our work has been tested in performance. Company members teach in major college programs at DePaul, The School of the Art Institute, Columbia College and UIC.

Plasticene’s website: www.plasticene.com
Plasticene’s YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/PlastiMover