3—5 PM, Friday, December 5 with Jérôme Joy on Free Radio SAIC

7:30 PM, Monday, December 8 with Will Soderberg at Myopic Books

Friday, December 5, 03:00 PM US Central Time- Jérôme Joy from the Locus Sonus project in France joins me in Chicago for some live improvisation and discussion on Free Radio SAIC http://freeradiosaic.org

Here’s the program, running from 3 pm to 5 pm:

Monday, December 8 7:30 PM - Myopic Books with Will Soderberg (MIDI guitar, micromoog)

The Free Radio SAIC Archives are up now at http://freeradiosaic.org/radio/archives/

Listen to the November 6th performance by my Intro To Sound students via the above link or direct link to Ear Beer at http://freeradiosaic.org/radio/archives/76/

poster design by Hae-Sung Chung

I like to show Brian Springer’s 1995 video, Spin to my students at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, especially when Presidential election time rolls around. This video is housed in the collection of the Video Data Bank at SAIC, one of the foremost collections of video by artists in the United States. Last month I surprised to discover that Spin can now be seen online on Google Video.

More video interviews with students from my 2008 Instrument Construction course at SAIC have been uploaded.

• SAIC Student Rob Martens: Evil Brother Of Snap, Crackle and Pop Martens?
  http://www.gearwire.com/theramin-instrument-construction.html
• (Part 1) SAIC Student Bethany Childs Tempts The Fury Of Neptune
  http://www.gearwire.com/conchshell-instrument-construction-001.html
• (Part 2) SAIC Student Bethany Childs And Playing An Interfaced Conch Shell
  http://www.gearwire.com/conchshell-instrument-construction-002.html

• Stuart Schmidt Is More Machine Than Man, Now
  http://www.gearwire.com/glove-controller-instrument-construction.html
• Cycling 74 Max: Kyle Evans’ Cigar Box Controller Controls Air Traffic Control
  http://www.gearwire.com/cigarbox-controller-instrument-construction.html

And as mentioned previously…

• Chris Burke’s Interactopus: One Man’s Trash Is Another Man’s Interactopus
  http://www.gearwire.com/interactopus-instrument-construction.html
• Jenna Caravello’s Celloharp Promotes Inter-Instrumental Hybridization
  http://www.gearwire.com/celloharp-instrument-construction.html

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:

White Noise Phantom Room Hour has been added to the Free Radio SAIC archive: freeradiosaic.org/program/archives/

Listen to the earlier shows by my Intro To Sound students at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. These can be located in the archive by searching for the word “Locofone” before their titles.

Special thanks go to Ali for the poster design and to Free Radio SAIC Faculty Advisor, Lori Felker for her help in the studio and on the archive.

Check the schedule and listen to the Free Radio live stream at http://freeradiosaic.org (QuickTime required)

Tune in and listen to White Noise Phantom Room Hour, a special live radio experiment on Free Radio SAIC.

When: 2:00 to 3:00 pm [US CST (GMT -6)] Thursday, April 17, 2008

Where: http://freeradiosaic.org (QuickTime required)

Produced and performed by students of Eric Leonardson’s Introduction To Sound course.

Travel through space while staying in one place.

Each student will give a tour through a “room” or “place” they have created. There are eleven students and thus, eleven rooms that each will lead you from one student’s radiophonic room to the next for one hour.

We will enjoy hearing your feedback during the show. Call 312.345.3805 or use the real-time messaging.