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.

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

7:30pm 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

Carol Genetti (vocals) and I will be performing a duo set at the final show in the Triage Sound Series:

8PM Tuesday, December 18
Elastic
2830 N Milwaukee, 2nd Fl
Chicago, IL 60618
(773) 772-3616
suggested donation

There will also be performances by Series Founders, Mykel Boyd, and Neil Jendon. See the Elastic events page for latest details.

You can listen to streaming audio of performances from my 2007 tour.

From The Tank, May 2007

On the free103point9 archive: www.free103point9.org/archives

Jack Wright - Andrew Drury duo,
Anna Friz + Eric Leonardson duo

Co-sponsored by the New York Society for Acoustic Ecology and free103point9. Recorded at The Tank, New York on Thursday, May 31, 2007

Red Room, June 2007

From the Red Room on art@radio: http://art-radio.net

Anna Friz + Eric Leonardson duo
Walter Gross solo. Recorded at the Red Room, Baltimore on Saturday, June 2, 2007

“Dancing Walls…” excerpts

Listen to audio excerpts from “Dancing Walls…” on Anna’s Myspace page: www.myspace.com/littlepeopleintheradio

More audio samples: www.myspace.com/ericleonardson