Gregory O’Drobinak, Eric Leonardson, and Ed Herrmann
play the Baschet Aluminum Piano

2:00 pm, Friday, September 30

Admission to the museum is $12 or $7 students. Free for SAIC students. There is no extra charge for the performance.

This is another chance to hear a rare musical instrument - the “aluminum piano” designed by Francois and Bernard Baschet, and owned by the Museum of Contemporary Art. The performance will last about 45 minutes and is part of  “Motor Cocktail: Sound and Movement Art of the 1960s,” an exhibition that runs through October.

More event information:

http://www.mcachicago.org/programs/event_detail.php?id=921

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Just Listen, a set by Fergus Kelly on Flickr.

My friend Fergus Kelly from Dublin posted this lovely set of photos of performances from Just Listen, in Cork, Ireland. The shots of David Toop and The Quiet Club were taken on Friday, before I arrived. Pauline Oliveros and John Godfrey performed as a duo on Saturday before me, at CIT Cork School of Music.

Via Flickr:
Live events

Cork School Of Music

April 2011

Eric Leonardson’s Art’s Birthday 2011 Archive

Audio and images of performances by Christain Pinock, Guillermo Gregorio, and Eric Leonardson recorded on Sunday, January 16 at
Enemy (Chicago, USA).

Control + click on this link to download and unzip the (101 MB) folder containing one Ogg Vorbis file. The total length of the concert recording is 68 minutes.

Images from the concert are featured on Flickr. Direct link to the photo set:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/eleonardson/sets/72157625758657573/

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Originally uploaded by giantmolecules
This is Brett Balogh’s Flickr set of the install, opening, and today’s performance. Here’s the direct linked to the set below. Enjoy!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/64339308@N00/sets/72157621846663812/

The May-June, 2009 issue of the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology (WFAE) online newsletter published my report about Megalópolis sonoras: Identidad cultural y sonidos en peligro de extinción (Sound Megalopolis: Cultural Indentity and Sounds in danger of extinction). I attended the conference from 23-27 March 2009, held in Mexico City at the Fonoteca Nacional.

http://interact.uoregon.edu/MediaLit/WFAE/library/newsarchive/2009/03_may_june/index.htm

Find links to my report (PDF and HTML), the papers, and reports by Nigel Frayne, Hildegard Westerkamp, Vivienne Spiteri, Randolph Jordan, and others listed under the Observations and Commentary section. Or, you may use this direct link to download the PDF of my report.

Here is my brief report from Megalópolis Sonoras: Sonidos en peligro de extinción (Sound Megalopolis: Cultural Indentity and Sounds in danger of extinction) conference organized by the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology (WFAE) and the recently founded Mexican Forum for Acoustic Ecology. The conference began on March 23rd at the gorgeous Fonoteca Nacional in the beautiful Coyoacán neighborhood of Mexico City, and concludes on March 27th.

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My photos of last Sunday’s Chicago Phonography performance in Exquisite City are now on my Flickr photostream. (more…)

Have a look at the new blog by Sarah Mann-O’Donnell. “Sarah’s Sound Script” blog is an online venue for her poetic writings on sound. Sarah is a philosopher and poet who writes about sound. She’s a newcomer from Philadelphia.

I met Sarah Mann-O’Donnell at two of my concerts last week, and she wrote about:

Monday’s concert at Elastic with Carol Genetti

…and:

Friday’s concert at AV-aerie with Eric Glick Rieman.

I shared the bill with The Young Equestrians and Fred Lonberg-Holm, whom Sarah also wrote about.