3:00 - 4:00 p.m. Friday, March 18Dexter Bullard’s The Dialogues is back from its successful run at Links Hall. I will create a live sound mix to accompany two performers who improvise a telephone conversation as the audience eavesdrops on headphones, for the MCA’s Without You I’m Nothing: Interactions series.
Museum of Contemporary ArtCelebrating Art’s Birthday with Christian Pinock and Guillermo Gregorio at…
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 with Guillermo Gregorio (clarinet, saxophone) and Eric Leonardson (experimental instruments, electronics).
Guillermo and Eric will open the concert at 7:30 PM with a duo set.
My next performance in The Dialogues will be on November 15 and November 22 (final performance).
All shows are at 7:30 on Mondays.
Kuro Neko Music has released a recorded live performance of Fred Lonberg-Holm’s “Lightbox Orchestra” at the Elastic Arts Foundation, in Chicago. I performed in the orchestra along with…
Fred Lonberg-Holm - lightbox operator
Todd A. Carter – electronics
Michael Colligan - dry ice and implements
Rob Drinkwater – electronics
Abe Gibson - guitar and electronics
Brian Labycz – electronics
Frank Rosaly - percussion and electronics
Vadim Sprikut – electronics
Aaron Zarzutzki - snare drum
Listen and download the album and others from http://www.kuronekomusic.com/lightbox-at-elastic-arts-3
Here’s an update, including three new performances added to my November schedule…
Sunday, August 3, 10:00 p.m.–2:00 a.m. on Something Else WLUW 88.7 FM Independent Community Radio, with Chicago Phonography / Live stream at http://wluw.streamguys.net/listen.pls
Related links:http://chicagophonography.com/Listen to Chicago Phonographers’ first live performance
Monday, August 4, 7:30 p.m. at Myopic Books, 1564 N. Milwaukee Ave., with Jerry Bryerton (percussion) and Christopher Bruce (percussion), free
Related links:http://www.myspace.com/jeromebryertonhttp://www.myspace.com/christopherabruce
Monday, August 11, 9:00 p.m. at ELASTIC Arts Foundation 2830 N. Milwaukee Ave., 2nd Fl., with Carol Genettti (voice), double bill with Fred Lonberg-Holm (cello) solo, $7 suggested donation
This concert follows the opening reception (8:00—9:00 p.m., admission free) for Elastic Sound and Vision Gallery’s new exhibition, Unfinished Logan Square, featuring work by visual artist Tracy Kostenbader.
Friday, August 15, 8:00 p.m. at the AV-aerie, 2000 W. Fulton, with Bay Area composer and instrument inventor Eric Glick Rieman (prepared Rhodes electric piano), double bill with the Young Equestrians from Brooklyn, $8 suggested donation
Related links:http://www.myspace.com/ericglickriemanhttp://www.myspace.com/shaynadulbergerhttp://www.myspace.com/avaerie
Eric Glick Rieman lives in Berkeley, California where he composes music in many genres and improvises on a redesigned Rhodes electric piano, among other instruments. He has studied with Fred Frith, Pauline Oliveros, Maggi Payne, Eliane Radigue, Alvin Curran, Chris Brown, J. D. Parran, Douglas Ewart, Steed Cowart, and John Bischoff. He has organized the Thingamajigs festival. His 2003 CD on Accretions, “DalabaFrithGlickRiemanKihlstedt” was recorded with Lesli Dalaba (trumpet), Fred Frith (guitar), and Carla Kihlstedt (violin) , and “Lung Tree” (on ReR recordings in 2005) was recorded with Lesli Dalaba (trumpet), and Stuart Dempster (trombone).
Sunday, August 24 7:00 p.m. at ELASTIC Arts Foundation, 2830 N. Milwaukee Ave., 2nd fl., Los Cuatros Demonios opens for Terry Dame’s Electric Junkyard Gamelan
Los Cuatros Demonios is Tomeka Reid (cello), Carol Genetti (voice), Guillermo Gregorio (clarinet), Eric Leonardson (springboard), Dan Godston (trumpet, percussion), $10 suggested donation
Related links:http://www.myspace.com/electricjunkyardgamelanhttp://www.myspace.com/cellomamahttp://www.carolgenetti.nethttp://www.myspace.com/dangodstonmusichttp://www.myspace.com/ericleonardson
1st set
Guillermo Gregorio — clarinets and saxophones
Eric Leonardson — springboard, amplified objects
Dan Godston — trumpet, small instruments
2nd set : Altamira
Ricardo Lagomasima — drums
John Deblase — electric bass
Nick Millevoi — guitar
Brown Rice 4432 N Kedzie Avenue
Chicago IL 60625
www.brownricemusic.org8:00 p.m.
$5 suggested donation
Directions: Brown Rice is small storefront located a half block north of the Montrose-Kedzie intersection, a few blocks south of the Kedzie station on the CTA Brown Line. There is a small sign over the entrance that reads “Perfect”. View Map.
9:00pm, Friday April 11
4432 N Kedzie Avenue
Chicago IL 60625
Suggested donation: $5
www.brownricemusic.org
Doors open 30 minutes before the show begins.
Auris
Eric Leonardson — springboard
Julia Miller — guitars, plucked instruments, electronics
Chris Preissing — flute, voice
YouTube: www.youtube.com/auristrio
MySpace: www.myspace.com/auristrio
also performing:
(from Oakland, California) Aurora Josephson — voice
Guillermo Gregorio — clarinet and alto saxophone
Jerome Bryerton — percussion
CCC presents Live Digital Performances IV
with Auris
7:30pm Saturday, February 23, 2008
Casa de Sandia
1359 W. 16th St.
Chicago, IL 60608
Admission: Free/donation
Doors open at 6:30 with light appetizers.
Auris is: 
Julia Miller — guitar, voice, electronics
Chris Preissing — flute, voice, electronics
Eric Leonardson — springboard
Auris YouTube profile: www.youtube.com/auristrio
Auris MySpace profile: www.myspace.com/auristrio
Chicago Composers’ Consortium: www.c3composers.org/
Bridges, Arts at Large new music series
7:00 pm Wednesday, February 20
Lincoln Park Cultural Center, 2045 N. Lincoln Park West
Chicago, IL 60614 Tel: 773.248.1667
Admission: Free (seating is limited to only 50 people)
Arts at Large http://www.aalchicago.org/
I will be performing on the Springboard, my self-built instrument pictured above, with electronics. This will be my first solo performance since the 2007 Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium, and the first evening length solo since the 2006 RadioRevolten Festival.
To learn more about the Springboard visit my “experimental instruments” page with links to the 2007 Gearwire videos: ericleonardson.org/instruments/index.html
Eric Leonardson on MySpace: www.myspace.com/ericleonardson
Eric Leonardson on YouTube: www.youtube.com/ericleonardson