I perform in the GBO: Homelistening series with Carol Genetti (voice), Friday, June 19 at…

The Green Bicycle Organization

1626 N. California, #2 (top buzzer)

Chicago, IL 60647

Please BYOB

Carol and I have been performing together since 1997. Our first CD, Animus was released in 1998, and is perhaps unique for its use of voice and Springboard, an invented instrument that employs coil springs, rubber bands, bowed wood in order to produce a surprising range of timbres and microtones.

About Carol Genetti:

Carol Genetti is a vocalist, composer and installation artist. Her work is focused on the interplay between the voice as an expressive musical instrument and its extension into the sound-making realm. She has studied a variety of techniques including Western singing, Hindustani classical voice and Bulgarian folk music. Through these studies and her own explorations, she has developed a personal yet universal palette that is an abstraction of “extended” voice sounds - breaths, overtones, and disconnected textual bits, squeaks, growls, non-verbal tones - sounds that evoke unconscious emotions and human physicality.
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Wednesday, May 13, 2009 - 6:30pm
SAIC Ballroom, 112 S. Michigan Avenue
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago

I perform with Global Warming featuring Elbio Barilari (guitar), Guillermo Gregorio(clarinet), Jeb Bishop (trombone), and Eric Hochberg (double bass), to celebrate the Poetry Center’s 36th Annual Reading Series.

Distinguished authors Stuart Dybek and Yusef Komunyakaa will read their work along with emerging artists Rachel Webster and the winners of the Poetry Center’s Hands on Stanzas Student Inaugural Poem Contest.

For more information about tickets and the contest visit http://poetrycenter.org

On April 4th WFMU threw a launch party for its FreeMusicArchive.org, a curated blog site for free and legally downloadable music. WFMU is currently the longest running freeform radio station in the United States. It is listener-supported, broadcasting at 91.1 FM in New York, at 90.1 FM in the Hudson Valley, and on the Internet with a wealth of online offerings. Among them is “Beware of the Blog.” Here’s its February 20 post about the launch party for the Free Music Archive.

The Free Music Archive offers free downloads under Creative Commons and other licenses. Here is the direct link to my tracks on the Free Music Archive: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Leonardson/

If you would like to hear more of my music and sound work on this archive, let me know. I can be encouraged to release more. Many audio excerpts from my past performances and compositions are also on my “composer & performer” page, with record releases listed on my discography page.

The Free Music Archive is also curated by KEXP, Issue Project Room, and Halas.am.

Nic writes:

The new edition of my book, Handmade Electronic Music – The Art of Hardware Hacking, is out!  Lots of new circuits and illustrations, more examples of artists’ designs, and a DVD with 87 1-minute video clips by hackers from all over the globe, as well as a series of step-by-step video tutorials by me.

Here’s a little reminder: on Saturday, May 2, at 3PM Quimby’s Bookstore (1854 W. North Avenue) is hosting a book release party. I’ll screen some video, sign books, and the Chicago Symphacking Orchestra (CSO) will perform.  See http://www.quimbys.com/.

[The Springboard, my self-built instrument gets a small mention in Nic’s book. I’ve  provided some of the Gearwire interviews edited by Gretchen Hasse for the new edition’s accompanying DVD. And also, I hope to be ready to join the CSO on Saturday afternoon with my new  instrument, shown below and, as you can see, still under construction—Eric]

THE WHITE AIRPLANE“Soundtrack Album”

BRAZILDISC/PHANTOM SOUNDTRACKS release date: 05/26/09

written, produced, recorded & mixed by Eric Leonardson and Heath Hays
tracks 3 and 11 Leonardson/Friz
except track 9, produced by Darren Callahan (as Teenage Blackout)
mastered by Blaise Barton

Eric Leonardson - springboard, electronics

Heath Hays - laptop, sound design

Anna Friz - melodia

http://www.darrencallahan.com/white_airplane/index.html

Trilogy is a weekly radio show for new and experimental music that airs from 9 to 10 p.m. PDT on Wednesdays on KXLU 88.9 FM Los Angeles. It also streams live around the globe at www.kxlu.com.

This Wednesday March 11, 2009 join host Bonnie Barnett for an evening of recent acquisitions, including:

• the electroacoustic work of Eric Leonardson

• a new release on the Dreamscape label of music by Shades of Time (Steve Gorn, Raul Tudon & Georg Hofmann)

• new releases from Cold Blue Records and Porter Records

Plasticene performs in the Objects in Motion Festival, a three week festival of puppetry, toy-theater, and object-based performance opening Saturday, March 14, 2009, at The Building Stage: www.buildingstage.com.

We’ve taken some explorations and put them into a 17-minute low-tech chamber-piece called Light Cycle (featured in Program A) , performed by Mark Comiskey, Brian Shaw, and Laura Fisher, directed by Dexter Bullard, with me providing sound.

Our appearance is shared on Program A with B-LO, Joe Mazza, Sid Yiddish, and Renata Sheppard, plus a weekly featured artist. Currently, we are scheduled to perform on these dates/times:

Saturday, March 14 at 8:00
Thursday, March 19 at 8:00
Saturday, March 21 at 8:00
Thursday, March 26 at 8:00
Saturday, March 28 at 8:00
Thursday, April 2 at 8:00
Saturday, April 4 at 7:00

Visit www.buildingstage.com for tickets, schedule, and information.

Next month there will be another sketch-style piece directed by Mark Comiskey involving video/live interaction appearing at Collaboraction’s 9th Annual Sketchbook Festival: collaboraction.org

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I composed music for the world premiere production of Darren Callahan’s The White Airplane, directed by Susan Padveen and performed by the Polarity Ensemble Theatre.The White Airplane will run February 13 - March 22, 2009 at Polarity’s new space in the Josephinum Academy, 1500 N. Bell, Chicago.

Call 1-800-838-3006 for tickets. Join us for opening night, Monday February 16th!

Here is a download link to one song I composed (the link will expire in 14 days).

My compostion includes music created with Anna Friz (melodica, accordion, electronics) in Chicago, June 2008.

Read The White Airplane Reviews

Watch the trailer:
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This 8-minute video excerpt has just posted today, from last Saturday’s performance I played in with John Berndt (from Baltimore – electronics), Asimina Chremos (movement), Jim Baker (viola), and Carol Genetti (voice) at Silverspace, in Wicker Park.

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