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.)

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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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

One highlight from 2007’s Instrument Construction class remains the “Bubble Organ” designed and built by Aaron Wendel.

Below is a short, unedited video clip of Aaron’s instrument.

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SAIC’s Waveforms presents sound works and performances by students from the Sound Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, on Friday, May 2 at the Fine Arts Building (Curtis Hall)
7:00-10:00pm, 410 S. Michigan Avenue 10th floor, Curtis Hall, FREE ADMISSION

Students in my Instrument Construction course will open, performing as an ensemble of invented and hybrid electronic and acoustic instruments, during Looptopia.
Here are some photos of the instruments that the students will be performing on:

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