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.

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

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

2:00 pm, Friday, September 30

Museum of Contemporary Art
220 East Chicago Avenue
Chicago IL 60611

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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Baschet Brother’s musical sculpture, a set on Flickr.

Friday, July 1 at 2–3 p.m. 4th floor, in the museum’s gallery experimental musicians Hal Rammel, Eric Leonardson, and Ed Herrmann will play and accompany François and Bernard Baschet’s Aluminum Piano (1962). Free with museum admission.

Museum of Contemporary Art
220 East Chicago Avenue
Chicago IL 60611

This performance is a part of the exhibition Motor Cocktail: Sound and Movement in Art of the 1960s
July 1 – October 30, 2011
More information

Friday, July 1 at 2–3 p.m. 4th floor gallery, Museum of Contemporary Art. Free with museum admission.

Experimental musicians Hal Rammel, Eric Leonardson, and Ed Herrmann will play and accompany François and Bernard Baschet’s Aluminum Piano (1962) in the museum’s gallery.

Museum of Contemporary Art
220 East Chicago Avenue
Chicago IL 60611

 

This performance is a part of the exhibition Motor Cocktail: Sound and Movement in Art of the 1960s
July 1 – October 30, 2011
Curated by Timothy Grundy, Marjorie Susman Curatorial Fellow

Each month a new set of performers take the stage:

July 29:  Dan Mohr and Adam Vida
Aug 26: Coppice (Noe Cuellar and Joseph Kramer)
Sept 30: Gregory O’Drobinak, Eric Leonardson, and Ed Herrmann
Oct 28: Jim Dorling and Sam Wagster

FRIDAY January 16, 2009
7:00PM
ELASTIC VISION GALLERY
GUILLERMO GREGORIO
“Visual Music” : reception for exhibition of graphic scores

9:00PM
$10 suggested donation
ELASTRO ELECTRO/ACOUSTIC SERIES
music by Guillermo Gregorio

ELASTIC

Elastic Arts Foundation

2830 N. Milwaukee, 2nd Fl., Chicago

(1 block north-west of Diversey/Kimball)

above Friendship Chinese Restaurant

773-772-3616

*close to the Logan Square Blue Line

www.elasticarts.org

ALL AGES

BYOB

set one
“DIGITAL CLAMOR OF THE MASSES”
music for clarinet and electronics, accompanied by a video collage including scenes from the film “The Take” and other diverse materials.
Eric Leonardson, Chris Lange, Brian Labycz, Paul Giallorenzo - electronics
Guillermo Gregorio - clarinets
Silvia Dapia and Daniel Cook - Video Composition

set two
Guillermo Gregorio’s MADI ENSEMBLE
Jeb Bishop, trombone; Keefe Jackson - bass and contrabass clarinets; Guillermo Gregorio - clarinets, alto sax; Fred Lonberg-Holm - cello; Paul Giallorenzo - piano; Elbio Barilari - electric guitar; Eric Leonardson - springboard

ELASTIC in January http://www.elasticarts.org/events.htm

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SATURDAY January 17, 2009
8:00PM
Donations Accepted
MUSIC & DANCE IMPROVISATIONS by Asmina Chremos - movement, John Berndt - electronics from Baltimore, Jim Baker - electronics, Eric Leonardson - springboard, Jaime Branch - brass, Carol Genetti - voice, others TBA

Silverspace

1474 N Milwaukee Ave., Wicker Park

Chicago IL, 60622

donations accepted, BYOB

RSVP: silverspacedance@gmail.com

 

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SUNDAY January 18, 2009
2:00PM
Admission: $5  NEW MUSIC at the GREEN MILL (George Flynn, curator)Composers: Flynn, Malone, Auris, Wolff, Raz, Ritch

Auris performs “Play” by Christian Wolff and a new composition by Auris with Julia Miller - guitar, Christopher Preissing - flute, Guillermo Gregorio - clarinet, and Eric Leonardson - springboard www.myspace.com/auristrio

Green Mill Jazz Club

4802 N. Broadway Ave.
Chicago, IL 60640

773-878-5552

www.greenmilljazz.com

Hal Rammel gave me the license to make my own instruments in 1990. Tonight I learned from Hal that a web page is up about the wonderful exhibition of experimental musical instruments he curated, “The Shapes of Sound: Musical Instruments and the Imagination in the Midwest.”

The show was held in late 1997 at Woodland Pattern Book Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. I was among the 14 artist-inventors who had their instruments displayed. I also gave a brief performance in the show. Visit the page at www.woodlandpattern.org/gallery/shapes_of_sound.shtml

Many photographs from the show are on this page with Hal Rammel’s catalog essay. To learn more about his fascinating writing, visual art, and music, please visit Hal’s homepage, his MySpace page, and YouTube.