I’m happy to announce that the American Society for Acoustic Ecology’s Listening for the Future symposium will take place from Friday, July 9 through Sunday, July 11 in Chicago. Hosted by the ASAE’s Midwest chapter and the World Listening Project this conference is the first of its kind in the United States.

Please visit the Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology website for details on how to participate.

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Eric Leonardson & Ignaz Schick at Altes Finanzamt

Tue, June 08 @ 10:00 PM CEST
Eric Leonardson (Chicago) - springboard
Ignaz Schick (Berlin) - turntable

A video of Eric Leonardson performing with Ignaz Schick and Jason Soliday

Stark bewölkt with Birgit Ulher at Höbar

Wed, June 09 @ 9:30 PM CEST

There will be 3 acts:

Liz Allbee, Trompete (Berlin / Oakland)
George Cremaschi, Kontrabass (Tábor, Tschechien / Oakland)
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Heidrun Schramm/Sonata Rec, Elektronik, Video (Berlin)
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Eric Leonardson, springboard (Chicago)
Birgit Ulher, Trompete, Radio, miutes, Lautsprecher (Hamburg)

Eric Leonardson at LÀ-BAS -> KARELIA

Sat, June 12 @ 7 - 11 PM EEST

7 pm: Les Maitres d’ouvre (Technical Supervisors) avec Casimir Lütha

8 pm: Tomasz Szrama

9 pm: Jukka Hautamäki

10 pm: Eric Leonardson

Between performances: “Karelia” by The Guardians of Being

Eric Leonardson, Other Music at Aboa Vetus & Ars Nova Museum

Sun, June 13 @ 3:00 PM EEST

More info: http://www.aboavetusarsnova.fi/en/museossa-tapahtuu/kontakti

An evening of electroacoustic works at Pakkahuone, Joensuu

Tue, June 15 @ 6:00–9:30 PM
•    Hildegrad Westerkamp (Vancouver): Into the Labyrinth
•    Barry Truax (Vancouver): Chalice Well
•    Steven Feld (Santa Fe): Waking in Nima
•    Eric Leonardson (Chicago): No Time Like Real Time
•    R. Murray Schafer: Winter Diary

(This concert event is a prelude to the 2010 World Forum for Acoustic Ecology conference in Koli, Finland. I will be giving a short presentation entitled “Tourists in the Soundscape” and participating in a panel discussion “What’s new? - 35 years later: Updates on The Tuning of the World, a discussion on the occasion of the upcoming German re-edition”. ) More info: http://www.akueko.com/

I have four live appearances on radio and on stage this month, I hope you may be able to attend or listen in…

Saturday, January 16, 5:00AM US CST (GMT -6)

Guest on ITDE (”It’s Too Damn Early”)

I will be a guest on ITDE hosted by DaveX on WDBX 91.1FM.

ITDE features experimental, avant-garde, electroacoustic, improvisational, and other musics. ITDE airs on Saturday mornings from 4 - 6:30 a.m. [US CST / GMT -6]. That’s 11 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. in Berlin, and 6:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. in Hong Kong.

Sunday, January 17, 10:00PM–2:00 AM US CST (GMT -6)

Chicago Phonography on Something Else

Hosted by Philip von Zweck on WLUW 88.7FM Listen to the live stream.

Something Else is Chicago’s longest running radio show devoted to seldom-heard and experimental, avant-garde musics, sound art, works of long duration (no excerpts!), and other less classifiable things that just don’t have an outlet. Chicago Phonography is a collective of artists interested in promoting creative activity in listening by broadcasting unprocessed field recordings as an ensemble in a context of live improvisation.

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2 PM, Saturday, October 10, 2009

Eric Leonardson presents a 45-minute audio program of unique field recordings and soundscape compositions by member’s of the World Listening Project from outside of Chicago. This program immediately follows the opening dance work by Rachel Thorne Germond.

Saturday’s festival program includes a full day and evening of performances and readings that run from 2:00-11:00 p.m.

Please visit the festival website and check the “Schedule” tab for the full program: http://www.chicagocalling.org/

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Giant Ear))) curated by Eric Leonardson

The August 2009 edition of Giant Ear features interviews with Bernie Krause and Jerome Joy; selected field recordings and audio streams from the global Locus Sonus sound map, geo-tagged recordings from radio aporee, my Sonic Playground at Lake Crescent Park, Chicago Phonography performing at the Museum of Contemporary Art, as well as soundwalks by members of the World Listening Project and the Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology.

Air date:

Sunday, August 30
7:00 PM—9:00 PM EDT (6:00 PM—8:00 PM CDT | UTC/GMT -5)
free103point9.org

Presented by the New York Society for Acoustic Ecology, Giant Ear))) is a two-hour radio show webcast weekly on Sundays, 7-9pm on free103point9.org
Download mp3 (filesize 144MB)

I contributed a field recording to Mary Jey’s show on Sounds of Destruction for this month’s Giant Ear broadcast on Sunday, June 28 from 7-9pm (Eastern). Listen on free103point9.org (streamed on the net).

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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.

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This Spring semester my Introduction to Sound students at SAIC produced four one-hour live webcasts. These are now available in the Free Radio SAIC archive.

• Eight Forms of Hair Removal (April 8, 2009)
• Eight Forms of Snare Removal (April 9, 2009)
• Dear Late Night Traveler (April 22, 2009)
• Dream Stream (April 23, 2009)

Members of the World Listening Project will be on Chicago’s WLUW 88.7 Loyola radio program Something Else hosted by Philip Von Zweck this Sunday night at 10PM Central (GMT -6) on April 5th. Field recordings by WLP members will be aired and news of upcoming events provided.

If you live outside the broadcast radius of WLUW, you can still listen to the Internet stream: http://wluw.streamguys.net/listen.pls

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