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

Photo by Andrea Bauer

Opening Friday, January 20, 7:00 to 10:00 pm

National Wet Paint | Make Sound Exhibition

SAIC Sound MFA students, Jonny Farrow and Ethan Rose, featured in the inaugural Make Sound 2012 exhibition at the Zhou B Art Center, curated by Julia A. Miller, Christopher Preissing, and me. Auris (Eric Leonardson, springboard; Julia A. Miller, guitar; Christopher Preissing, flute) performs from 7:30 to 8:30 pm during the reception.

Make Sound 2012 is a partner exhibition to the National Wet Paint Exhibition 2012, and is organized in a similar fashion. MFA candidates and recent MFA recipients in sound art, installation, and performance will be honored and exhibited alongside those in Wet Paint.

Now in its first year, Make Sound 2012 focuses on Chicago-based artists, expanding to national submission-based curatorial efforts in the future.

Jonny Farrow, Feed3+
Feed3+ is an audio/visual improvisation utilizing a no-input feedback system that generates the audio, and a Jitter-manipulated video feedback system that generates the visuals. The visuals create an instant score for the audio performance. Feed3+ is the sum of three interdependent feedback loops: the audio, the video, and the performer’s reading and manipulation of the score. For more information visit: www.jonnyfarrow.net

Ethan Rose, Movements
Movements consists of a series of individually treated, electrically-powered music boxes that use the gallery wall as a resonating body. Each individual music box was physically altered by selectively bending back tines, resulting in a melodic reduction of the original composition. The altered boxes are then grouped and controlled by timers that intermittently activate different sections of the piece in order to engage a constantly shifting non-linear auditory experience. For more information visit: www.ethanrosemusic.com

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Interview on Vidos Island

Part of Kiki Karydi’s “A Week of Sound and Silence” project.

Kiki is a graduate student studying in the UK. She was among the many people met in Corfu for “Crossing Listening Paths” 2011 WFAE International Conference. Among the questions I respond to are, In the video I respond to four questions, “What feelings to the soundscapes in Corfu inspire in you?”, “What is ’silence’ for you?”, and “When a soundscape is mediatized, does it lose its naturalness?”

“A Week of Sound and Silence” will feature interviews with Christopher W. Clark, Katharine Norman, R. Murray Schafer, David Murphy, and Allen S. Weiss, and other participants in “Crossing Listening Paths.”

Conference of the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology, “Crossing Listening Paths” in Corfu

Monday, October 3, 2011
7:00 - 8:30 PM
Municipal Theater of Corfu
Kerkyra, Greece

The World Forum for Acoustic Ecology hosts a collaborative, hybrid lecture-performance, entitled “Conversation, Improvisation, and Locality,” by Eric Leonardson (Faculty, Sound SAIC), Jay Needham (Faculty, Radio-Television, SIU, Carbondale), and Sabine Breitsameter (Faculty of Media, Hochschule Darmstadt, Germany).

Also performing, Islands of One by Katherine Norman.

Program notes at http://www.akouse.gr/wfae2011/CONCERT1__MONDAY_031011.pdf

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

2:00 pm, Friday, September 30

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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Sounding Out! Podcast Episode #4: Within a Grain of Sand

Listen at http://soundstudiesblog.com/2011/09/22/sounding-out-podcast-episode-4-within-a-grain-of-sand/

Just posted September 22 by Maile Colbert, author of the online article Within a Grain of Sand: Our Sonic Environment and Some of Its Shapers for Sounding Out: The Sound Studies Blog

Maile Colbert explores how several key field recordists define and explore the notion of soundscape. In her podcast, Jen Boyd, Rui Costa, Maile, and I address our work in sound studies and field recording.

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

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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The Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology (MSAE) is pleased to announce its Fall Event Series, kicking off with “What If Sound Matters Too: Revisiting the Potential for Healthy Soundscape.” This lecture by Scott Bernstein is co-hosted by The Department of Audio Arts & Acoustics at Columbia College Chicago, and takes place on campus, at 33 E. Congress Parkway, Basement, 7pm Wednesday, Sept. 21. Admission Free.
Scott Bernstein is the President and co-founder of the Center for Neighborhood Technology, and his talk will suggest agendas for research, demonstration and local policies that can make healthy soundscapes attainable.

Please visit the MSAE website for full details at http://mwsae.org

Sunday, September 11 between 4:30 and 5:30 p.m. (Central US time)

WFMT 98.7 FM observes the 10th anniversary of 9/11 with Flags From Ashes, music and text conceived as a memorial for Sept. 11, 2001.

WFMT asked Latin American composer, Elbio Barilari to create a special work for radio broadcast to observe this day of peace and remembrance. I was invited to perform in Elbio’s group assembled for this project, recorded Wednesday, August 24 in the WFMT sound studio.

Amy Conn, Soprano
Andrew Royal, Violin
Eric Leonardson, Springboard
Andy Cohn, Piano
Kalyan Pathak, Tablas
Elbio Barilari, Bandoneon, electric guitar
Dan Godston, Trumpet

The broadcast includes text by Spanish novelist and journalist, Antonio Munoz Molina, read by WFMT’s Peter Whorf, and excerpts from Dirge For Two Veterans, by Walt Whitman, sang in English by Amy Conn and spoken by Elbio Barilari, in Spanish. Post-production and mix, Joshua Savageau, Cydne Gillard, Elbio Barilari at WFMT 98.7 studios.

If you missed the broadcast, you can listen to “Flags From Ashes” here:

9–10 a.m. (PST) Wednesday, August 10, 2011 the Seattle Phonographers Union (Steve Peters, Dale Lloyd, Perri Lynch, and Steve Barsotti) performed on Weekday, and talked with radio host Steve Scher, on Seattle’s KUOW to discuss the Sounds of Summer.

Some of my summertime sounds from Chicago were also featured on the show. You can download and listen to the radio show here.

Here are eight summer sounds I recorded, from which KUOW selected for the show, and here for you to hear in their entirety: