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Ear Room Interview

Eric — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 22:55:17 +0000

The March issue of Ear Room features an interview by Mark Peter Wright featured in Ear Room, an online publication exploring the creative use of sound in artistic practice: http://earroom.wordpress.com/

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Ear Room also has its Soundcloud player audio archive.

2nd Annual Guthman Musical Instrument Competition Photos and Video

Eric — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 22:11:25 +0000

The 2nd Annual Guthman Musical Instrument Competition ended Saturday, February 27 at Georgia Institute of Technology, in Atlanta. Here are links to some photos and video I took there.

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. Steven was one of the prize winners. The other winners were Tomas Henriques, and Loud Object.

My Flickr photo set

Check out the list of participants, too. This PDF will lead to a wealth of ideas about music, instrument construction, and more. 51 kb download

Performing Saturday, March 6 at Enemy

Eric — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 07:25:26 +0000

9 PM Saturday, March 6 at Enemy, a double bill with Auris and WUMMIN

Auris:

Julia Miller - guitar, electronics
Christopher Preissing - flute, objects, electronics
Eric Leonardson - springboard, electronics

WUMMIN:

Andrew Royal - violin
Anita Chari - cello, voice
Brian Sulpizio - drums

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

(doors at 8:00)

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Performing Saturday, January 30 at Hotti Biscotti

Eric — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 19:29:54 +0000

Music performed on traditional and invented instruments with electronics

A rare trio performance of Greg O’Drobinak - invented instruments, electronics; Christopher Preissing - flute, percussion, electronics; Eric Leonardson - springboard, electronics

10 PM Saturday, January 30

Hotti Biscotti

3545 W. Fullerton Ave. (corner of Drake Ave.)

Chicago IL 60647

773-292-6877

21 and over, no cover

Google Map link

Download audio file (audio-GregODrob.mp3)

Listen an excerpt of Greg O’Drobinak’s music

Here’s a Chicago Reader review of 84 Charlie Mopic, the 8 PM movie screening preceding our performance: www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/MovieTimes?oid=1067859

SAIC Alum Flo McGarrell dies in Haiti earthquake

Eric — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 03:19:12 +0000

http://my.saic.edu/news/35068/In-Memory-of-Alumnus-Flores-Flo-McGarrell-.htm

Sad news arrived today, but the good news is that our other friend and colleague from SAIC, Sue Frame is okay we are told.

Flo’s amazing work in Haiti was written about in the Art21 series last year.

Here’s a link to a local news report.

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NEW MUSIC HAITIAN RELIEF

Eric — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 18:43:47 +0000

Anyone who’s heard or read the news recently knows of the catastrophic earthquake that hit Haiti on Tuesday, January 12. The death toll and devastation is massive. Here’s a Haitian relief effort that you may be interested in joining, organized by Tuscon-based artist Glenn Weyant.

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Upcoming Performances and Broadcasts in January

Eric — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 07:34:21 +0000

I have four live appearances on radio and on stage this month, I hope you may be able to attend or listen in…

Saturday, January 16, 5:00AM US CST (GMT -6)

Guest on ITDE (”It’s Too Damn Early”)

I will be a guest on ITDE hosted by DaveX on WDBX 91.1FM.

ITDE features experimental, avant-garde, electroacoustic, improvisational, and other musics. ITDE airs on Saturday mornings from 4 - 6:30 a.m. [US CST / GMT -6]. That’s 11 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. in Berlin, and 6:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. in Hong Kong.

Sunday, January 17, 10:00PM–2:00 AM US CST (GMT -6)

Chicago Phonography on Something Else

Hosted by Philip von Zweck on WLUW 88.7FM Listen to the live stream.

Something Else is Chicago’s longest running radio show devoted to seldom-heard and experimental, avant-garde musics, sound art, works of long duration (no excerpts!), and other less classifiable things that just don’t have an outlet. Chicago Phonography is a collective of artists interested in promoting creative activity in listening by broadcasting unprocessed field recordings as an ensemble in a context of live improvisation.

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Podcasting via AudioBoo, shared field recordings, podcasts, Locus Streambox

Eric — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 01:09:51 +0000

Recently, I started using AudioBoo and found it to be a fun social media “play thing” for posting field recordings. One interesting feature with potential for serious use is AudBoo’s ability to create a podcast in the iTunes Music Store. There you can download to the files or “boos” as well as subscribe to the podcast. You can tag your boos, search boos. This is the link for my AudioBoo. As in Twitter you can follow the profiles. You can also subscribe to everyone’s AudioBoos on the iTunes AudioBoos full podcast.

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Topping the List of LMJ’s “Most Downloaded Articles”

Eric — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 01:22:59 +0000

Nic Collins just informed me that my 2007 article, about my Springboard and piezo contact mics, has topped the list of Leonardo Music Journals “Most Downloaded Articles”.

My article is a free download, please enjoy.

Chicago Phonography @ The Op Shop

Eric — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 05:59:37 +0000

Chicago Phonography @ The Op Shop

Originally uploaded by eleonardson
This evening’s show was quite wonderful. We played for an hour and a half, and our attentive audience all stayed for an impromptu discussion afterward. We all didn’t expect this to happen and thoroughly enjoyed it. We felt so welcome…many thanks to Laura Shaeffer and Chris Hammes for making this happen.

More info about The Op Shop is on their website: theopshop.org

Here is an excerpt from the recording of the performance.

Download audio file (OP2.mp3)

Past performance recordings can be heard on our website: www.chicagophongraphy.org