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.
Zhou B Art Center
1029 West 35th Street
Chicago, IL 60609
Tel: 773-523-0200
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
ESS posted my performance with Anna Friz for the opening of Respire at Audible on its SoundCloud profile. What you hear, amongst a roomful of radios receiving the sounds of breathing and other bodily exclamations typically absent from regular radio programming, is Anna playing amplified sruti, mbira, and electronics. I performed on the Springboard and Korg MS-20. We performed on Friday July 16, 2011. Listen here:
Among the work of over 150 artists my early efforts in the field of radio, art, and radio art were cited in a new book, Transmission Arts: Artists & Airwaves (PAJ Publications, 2011) by Galen Joseph-Hunter, Penny Duff, and Maria Papadomanolaki.
On Saturday, July 23 free103point9.org Transmission Arts and WGXC: Hands-on Radio (90.7-FM) will hold a book launch with radio art performances. If you are in or near The Spotty Dog in Hudson, New York (I won’t be there myself, but feel free to drop in and tune in).
An online article about my springboard just posted on April 4 in the Daily Egyptian, the newspaper of Southern Illinois University. I was interviewed by Pat Sutphin when I performed in the Outside the Box Music Festival, on Saturday, April 2. You can look and listen to it in the multimedia section. Jay Needham curated the evening of radio art and surround sound works in which I performed on that evening.
On Saturday, April 16 I will give a talk about the World Listening Project and give a performance at the CIT Cork School of Music. Pauline Oliveros will also be performing telematically from the US with John Godfrey. On Sunday at 12 p.m. I lead a soundwalk workshop in Cork.
Just Listen is a sound art event initiated by the National Sculpture Factory that will unfold across various venues and sites across Cork and Limerick through April 2011. Just Listen will include installations, performances, talks, workshops events and concerts. Invited artists include: David Toop, Anne Bean, Pauline Oliveros, Michael Prime, Eric Leonardson, Stephen Vitiello, John Godfrey, Sabine Breitsameter, and Nicolas Collins. Just Listen was curated by Danny McCarthy and Sean Taylor.
My work, titled “Feedback.mono” is on Explorations in Sound, Volume 4,The Sound of Live Performance, a net label release curated by Furthernoise editor Roger Mills. The release is a 23 track compilation of noisemakers responding to the theme of the incidental and unexpected audio consequences of live performance, and is free to download with printed sleeve from the February/March 2011 issue of Furthernoise.org.
This compilation on The Sound of Live Performance assembles those “sound failures, the misassigned patch, unintended playing outcomes, FX overloads, calibrations and pinnacles of performative exploration” that offer sources for eclectic new material.
Celebrating Art’s Birthday with Christian Pinock and Guillermo Gregorio at…
Enemy
1550 N. Milwaukee Avenue, 3rd floor
Chicago IL 60622 www.enemysound.com
Albuquerque-based composer Christian Pinock performs original improvised compositions on electric valve trombone. Using a computer-based instrument of his own creation (using MAX/MSP) and a system of sensors attached to the trombone, he creates solo performances that are dynamic and subtle, drawing from diverse styles such as improvised experimental music, contemporary classical, avant-garde jazz, noise, and electronica.
Christian will perform a solo electric trombone set and a trio improvisation withGuillermo Gregorio (clarinet, saxophone) and Eric Leonardson (experimental instruments, electronics).
Guillermo and Eric will open the concert at 7:30 PM with a duo set.
On Sunday, December 19 Chicago’s longest running radio show for experimental, avant-garde music, phonography, and other genres of audio art will make its final broadcast. In less than two weeks Philip von Zweck, the host and producer of Something Else who started the show in 1995, will move on. As he told me, “It’s been 15 years.”
Writing in the past tense now…
Something Else was a non-commercial, volunteer effort that aired weekly on WLUW 88.7 FM. Aside from a 9-month haitus in 2004 (during which time Philip wrangled a string of volunteers to substitute for him while teaching at Brooklyn College), for four hours every Sunday night Philip played recordings and hosted live performances by a countless number of local, national, and international sound-text-radio artists, avant-garde composers, and experimental, improvising musicians.
I hope Philip’s effort will be remembered and appreciated. The historical significance of Something Else lies in the simple fact that there was no other Chicago radio program focused on live performances and recordings by seldom-heard artists and musicians making non-commercial, unpopular, risk-taking, art historical, bravely exploratory, and “bleeding edge” work in the new and marginal field of sound-as-art. While many occasions to hear this type of work on Chicago’s numerous public and college radio stations existed, as a regularly scheduled, weekly show, I think only WHPK’s Radio Dada and WNUR’s Airplay would compare. When WLUW began Internet streaming Philip’s show became internationally accessible.
Listen in to “Master Faders” on Free Radio SAIC, a one-hour webcast radio art show created with field recordings, analog reel-to-reel tape loops, contact microphones, digital recording & mixing, and electronic sound synthesis.
When: 2:00 to 3:00 pm, Thursday, November 18, 2010
Produced and performed by the students of my Spring 2010 Introduction To Sound course. If you miss the live show, check in the Free Radio archives and listen later.
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
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.
Jonny Farrow, Feed3+
