My report about Listening for the Future, the first American Society for Acoustic Ecology (ASAE) symposium and retreat, has been published on the September/October World Forum for Acoustic Ecology (WFAE) Online Newsletter.
In related news, within the next month I plan to have the proceedings (images, texts, and audio) from Listening for the Future published on the Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology website.
When you read the WFAE Newsletter you may notice that I was recently appointed as the new president of the ASAE. This is a big honor for me, one that came unexpectedly. It is also challenge. With the support of Andrea Polli, Michelle Nagai, and Arlene Walters I have confidence in my ability to serve.
On my immediate list of things to do is have a new ASAE website built. Planning is underway. I also hope that next year we will have another, equally successful ASAE symposium. Larger questions effecting our mission need to be addressed. Please stay tuned for more developments.
The August 2010 issue of furthernoise.org features four reviews of Mimeomeme’s new releases, including my CD, Rarebit with Steve Barsotti.
Mimeomeme is the Seattle-based label for “…unusual sound art made by an eclectic collective of artists involved with phonography, no- and low-fidelity recordings, raw digital data, plunderphonics, primitive analog synthesis, noise, infrasound, tape cut-ups and other oblique, not-yet-classified sonic epiphenomena.”
Rarebit is a culmination of my work with Steve Barsotti performing on our invented instruments.
“Furthernoise is an online platform for the creation, promotion, criticism and archiving of innovative cross genre music and sound art for the information & interaction of the public and artists alike.” Listen to selected tracks from the Mimeomeme label among other fascinating artists on the furthernoise.org audio player.
I am one of three guest artists creating sound at Links Hall in this nine-show series beginning September 13.
Links Hall Artistic Associate Dexter Bullard curates a series of improvised intimate phone calls between two well-known Chicago performers who are unknown to each other while the audience uses headphones to listen in…
Links Hall
3435 N. Sheffield Avenue, Suite 207
Chicago, IL 60657
Phone: 773-281-0824
All shows are at 7:30 on Mondays. Schedule of the sonic artists:
Eric Leonardson: Sept. 13, Oct. 4, Nov. 15, Nov. 22
Goodman Theatre
170 North Dearborn Street
Chicago, IL 60601
The Tenth Muse, in An Evening of Original Music and Performance
A new opera by Chicago-based composer Elbio Barilari, The Tenth Muse celebrates the life and poetry of the extraordinary Mexican writer, poet, musician, scientist, thinker and feminist, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. This 40-minute work is performed for one night only in the 5th Latino Theatre Festival (June 19–July 25), in the Owen Theatre at the Goodman.
I perform on springboard with a neo-baroque ensemble performing on period instruments.
This program is part of an evening of original music composed by local artists in association with the Latino Music Festival (Chicago), Lyric Opera of Chicago, Collaboraction and Aguavá New Music Studio. Tickets are $18/$9 (Students w/ID)
My friend Keith Anwar died on Monday, July 5, 2010.
I’ve known Keith since 1982 as a brave steelworker, historian, socialist, technician with the Chicago Transit Authority, and playwright. His play, Kabulitis won the Dionysos Cup in the Polarity Ensemble’s New Plays competition this past May. It was read at the Josephenium, while I was performing From a Fading Light at the St. Paul’s Cultural Center. I missed the reading but ran into Keith and his wife Connie then. He was looking fine. We had a brief chat before we hurried off to our respective performances, not knowing that would be the last time we’d see each other. A few years earlier, I had the honor of reading the part of one of the play’s main character at the Oak Park Public Library.
Kabulitis is based on the lives of Keith’s parents who lived in Afghanistan. Keith wrote the afterword to his father’s book, Memories of Afghanistan, published by in 2004.
You’re invited to participate in a special project of radio aporee and the World Listening Project for the first World Listening Day, on Sunday, July 18, 2010.
Radio aporee is an open project about the creation and exploration of public space. Its creator, Udo Noll asks you for help in creating an “audio snapshot of the world” as heard and recorded on World Listening Day. Aporee maps uses the Google maps interface to allow anyone to easily find their location on the map, then upload their audio via the web or mobile phone.
We’re inviting you to send an audio recording from your actual location, or other places of your interest on this day to the maps: http://aporee.org/maps/.
With your contributions collected on World Listening Day, Udo will then create a dedicated project page on the aporee map. As Udo says, “…besides having a nice documentation, I’m really intrigued by the idea of listening to the sounds of a particular day, around the world….” I’m very curious about what will happen, too.
I’m happy to announce that the American Society for Acoustic Ecology’s Listening for the Future symposium will take place from Friday, July 9 through Sunday, July 11 in Chicago. Hosted by the ASAE’s Midwest chapter and the World Listening Project this conference is the first of its kind in the United States.
My presentation, “Tourists in the soundscape, acoustic ecology in Chicago” will be given at 2:30 p.m. Thursday, June 16 for the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology conference: Ideologies and Ethics in the Uses and Abuses of Sound in Koli, Finland.
The conference runs from June 16-19, 2010. For those who cannot attend, some papers will be available and some session will be recorded, and made available online.
(This concert event is a prelude to the 2010 World Forum for Acoustic Ecology conference in Koli, Finland. I will be giving a short presentation entitled “Tourists in the Soundscape” and participating in a panel discussion “What’s new? - 35 years later: Updates on The Tuning of the World, a discussion on the occasion of the upcoming German re-edition”. ) More info: http://www.akueko.com/
The first of a 4-part radio series produced by the World Listening Projectaired on framework:afield on Sunday, May 23rd. Framework is a weekly radio program produced by Patrick McGinley “consecrated to field recording and its use in composition.” Framework:afield is a special sub-series curated and produced by guest artists from around the world. The theme for this edition #285 is “Sounds You Might Have Heard” and has been produced by Dave Armstrong.
My report about Listening for the Future, the first American Society for Acoustic Ecology (ASAE) symposium and retreat, has been published on the September/October World Forum for Acoustic Ecology (WFAE) Online Newsletter.
The August 2010 issue of 
You’re invited to participate in a special project of 
With your contributions collected on World Listening Day, Udo will then create a dedicated project page on the aporee map. As Udo says, “…besides having a nice documentation, I’m really intrigued by the idea of listening to the sounds of a particular day, around the world….” I’m very curious about what will happen, too.
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