Eric Leonardson

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Upcoming Chicago performances in August 2008

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/jeromebryerton
http://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/ericglickrieman
http://www.myspace.com/shaynadulberger
http://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/electricjunkyardgamelan
http://www.myspace.com/cellomama
http://www.carolgenetti.net
http://www.myspace.com/dangodstonmusic
http://www.myspace.com/ericleonardson

Monday, July 7, 8 p.m. @ Brown Rice

Live Improvised Music with Dan Godston and Guillermo Gregorio

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.org

8:00 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.

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Auris at Brown Rice

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

CHICAGO COMPOSERS’ CONSORTIUM

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: Auris in Sudden Sound Concert series, Jan. 31, 2008
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/

Solo Concert for Bridges

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/

Eric at SonothequeEric performs at Sonotheque, Chicago, photo by Charlie Simokaitis © 2007

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
Art at Large, Chicago Park District poster

Eric Leonardson on MySpace: www.myspace.com/ericleonardson
Eric Leonardson on YouTube: www.youtube.com/ericleonardson

Auris in Sudden Sound Concert series

Auris recording at MIC7:30pm Thursday, January 31, 2008

Krannert Art Museum, 500 East Peabody Drive, Champaign, Illinois.

Auris is a Chicago-based trio that performs original electroacoustic music on traditional and invented instruments. Its performances combine improvisation and compositions using non-traditional scores and text.

Julia Miller — guitar, voice, electronics
Chris Preissing — flute, voice, electronics
Eric Leonardson — springboard

MySpace profile: www.myspace.com/auristrio
YouTube profile: www.youtube.com/auristrio