I have six performances scheduled for October and November, with more being planned. Three happen in the Third Annual Chicago Calling Arts Festival (CCAF3), presented in various locations from October 1—12. Look further down for my other three post-CCAF shows held at Enemy, Myopic, and Elastic. Please check the CCAF3 Schedule page and this web page in case of last-minute schedule changes.

• 7 p.m. Friday, October 3 with Chicago Phonography

  Brett Balogh, Todd Carter, Chad Clark, John Kannenberg, Joshua Manchester, Jayve Montgomery, and Steve Barsotti joining us from the Seattle Phonographers Union

  ELASTIC
  2830 N. Milwaukee Ave., 2nd floor
  Chicago, IL  60618
  www.elasticrevolution.com
  $10 suggested donation

  I will also briefly introduce the World Listening Project this evening.

• 6 p.m. Saturday, October 4 with Steve Barsotti — improvisation with invented instruments and electronics — from Seattle celebrating the release of our new CD, Rarebit

  Heaven Gallery

  1550 N. Milwaukee Ave., 2nd floor

  Chicago, IL 60622

  www.heavengallery.com

  $10 suggested donation

Also featuring:

“Post-Katrina Stories”, a film by Stan West; Hanah Jon Taylor (saxophones) and Tom Abbs (upright bass); The Suite Unraveling, in collaboration with Asimina Chremos (movement) and Sarah Bendix (puppetry); and the quartet of Jeb Bishop (trombone), Craig Taborn (piano), Fred Lonberg-Holm (cello), Tim Daisy (drums)

• 8 p.m. Wednesday, October 8 with Glenn Weyant (invented instruments), Matt Weston (percussion), and Michael Erzen’s Artbot

  
  Peter Jones Gallery

  1806 West Cuyler, 2nd Floor

  Chicago IL 60613

  (773) 472-6725

  www.peterjonesgallery.com

  $10 suggested donation
  

  Read Bill Meyers critics’ choice in the Chicago Reader

Performances following CCAF3…

• 8:00 p.m. Sunday, October 12 with Auris—Julia Miller (guitar), Christopher Preissing (flute, voice, electronics), and Guillermo Gregorio (clarinet) on a bill with Unhappy Atlas and Bokeh

  Enemy
  1550 N. Milwaukee Ave., 3rd floor
  Chicago IL 60622
  www.enemysound.com (please bookmark the new url)
  

• 7:30 p.m. Monday, October 20 with Brian Labycz (electronics)

  Myopic Books

  1564 N. Milwaukee Ave

  Chicago, IL 60622

  www.myopicbookstore.com

  Free admission, donations welcome

• 9:00 p.m. Friday, November 14 with Auris: Julia Miller (guitar), Christopher Preissing (flute, voice, electronics), Guillermo Gregorio (clarinet)

  ELASTIC
  2830 N. Milwaukee Ave., 2nd floor
  Chicago, IL 60618
  www.elasticrevolution.com
  $10 suggested donation

At 2:30 on Sunday afternoon, September 28, I will give a short performance on Monica Herrera’s Strings, her sculptural sound installation at the Hyde Park Arts Center (HPAC):
http://www.hydeparkart.org/exhibitions/2008/07/strings_by_monica_hererra.php

2:00-5:00 p.m., admission FREE, Asian food provided.

Monica Herrera is a recent graduate of The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (MFA 2008). My performance is one of many in the Chicago Artists Month Opening Celebration at HPAC.

Over the weekend there will be a mix of exhibitions and free performances to kick off Chicago Artists Month, including a concert by the Black Monks of Mississippi, portrait drawings by Dale Washington, Butoh dance by Nicole LeGette, and free outdoor concerts by Fred Anderson, Corey Wilkes and Kahil El’Zabar as part of the 2nd Annual Hyde Park Jazz Festival.

Concluding a busy month of performances, Los Cuatros Demonios opens for Terry Dame’s Electric Junkyard Gamelan, a band from New York who perform original music on invented instruments.

7:00 p.m., Sunday, August 24 at ELASTIC Arts Foundation

Los Cuatros Demonios is Tomeka Reid (cello), Carol Genetti (voice), Guillermo Gregorio (clarinet), Eric Leonardson (springboard), and Dan Godston (trumpet, percussion)

Related links:

http://www.elasticrevolution.com/

http://www.myspace.com/electricjunkyardgamelan

http://www.myspace.com/cellomama

http://www.carolgenetti.net

http://www.myspace.com/dangodstonmusic

http://www.myspace.com/ericleonardson

Eric Glick Rieman, from Berkeley with his prepared Rhodes piano, will be performing with me this Friday, 8:00 p.m. at the AV-aerie, 2000 W. Fulton Street, Chicago, IL 60612, (312) 850-4030. $8 suggested donation.

This show is a double bill with The Young Equestrians from Brooklyn.

(If you know you can attend, please send me a message. Thanks to the
grief that the City of Chicago has given the folks at the AV-Aerie about
a license, they must promise this is a private party.)

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

On Monday I will perform at Brown Rice with instrument inventor Laura Emelianoff, maker and performer of the Open Harp.

Brown Rice

4432 N Kedzie Avenue
Chicago IL 60625
www.brownricemusic.org

8:00 p.m.
$5 suggested donation

1st set
Larry Sawyer — poetry
Dan Godston — trumpet, small instruments
2nd set
Laura Emelianoff — open harp
Eric Leonardson — springboard

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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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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Rarebit

by Steve Barsotti and Eric Leonardson

Transparency CD0125

Performed and recorded with Steve Barsotti at Experimental Sound Studio in Chicago. From 1994 until 1999 we performed as a duo, and with other local and internationally known artists, including Dan Burke (Illusion of Safety), Carol Genetti, Fergus Kelly, Tatsu Aoki, Chris Heenan, Yuko Nexus6, Yasuhiro Otani, Satoru Wono, Claude Wiley, and many more.

Description:

Rarebit is the culmination of a four-year project in electroacoustic music by sound artists and instrument inventors Steve Barsotti and Eric Leonardson. Their self-built instruments produce remarkable sounds that belie their humble origin. Barsotti and Leonardson’s sense of musical form arises from their deep attention to the individual essences of sounds, rather than the conventional grid of harmony and meter. What results is abstract sound composition that possesses a communicative style. Rarebit will draw comparisons to the sound palettes and ethereal soundscapes of such intrepid purveyors of “left field” and exploratory music as Hal Rammel, Hugh Davies, and Bob Rutman. Nine tracks. Running time 72 minutes.

Rarebit can be purchased from Transparency for $15 ($12 plus $3 postage) to meridianavenue@yahoo.com via PayPal.

7:30 p.m., Sunday I perform with Auris (Christopher Preissing and Julia Miller) in the…

Guitar Faculty Recital of
Jazz, Folk, & Contemporary Guitar at
Music Institute of Chicago
Evanston Campus & Nichols Concert Hall
1490 Chicago Avenue
Evanston, IL 60201
(847) 905-1500
www.musicinstituteofchicago.org/
Admission: Free

Directions: MIC is located at the southwest corner of Grove St. and Chicago Ave., across from Raymond Park (Davis stop on the el and Metra). View Map

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.