Eric Leonardson

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Show us your . . . springboard | Chicago Reader

Published January 19, 2012 in the Chicago Reader’s “Show us your [____]” section, by Kevin Warwick.

photo by Andrea Bauer

Photo by Andrea Bauer

Respire: Performance with Anna Friz at ESS on SoundCloud

ESS posted my performance with Anna Friz for the opening of Respire at Audible on its SoundCloud profile. What you hear, amongst a roomful of radios receiving the sounds of breathing and other bodily exclamations typically absent from regular radio programming, is Anna playing amplified sruti, mbira, and electronics. I performed on the Springboard and Korg MS-20. We performed on Friday July 16, 2011. Listen here:

Anna Friz and Eric Leonardson Live in Studio A by Experimental Sound Studio

Sharing sounds with springboard | Daily Egyptian

Untitled from Daily Egyptian on Vimeo.

An online article about my springboard just posted on April 4 in the Daily Egyptian, the newspaper of Southern Illinois University. I was interviewed by Pat Sutphin when I performed in the Outside the Box Music Festival, on Saturday, April 2. You can look and listen to it in the multimedia section. Jay Needham curated the evening of radio art and surround sound works in which I performed on that evening.

Explode The Monkey #4: Chicago Edition @ Enemy

Shick & Leonardson performing, in BerlinEric Leonardson joins Berlin-based turntablist/sound artist Ignaz Schick, and many others, performing in two nights of experimental music @ Enemy. Doors open at 8:00 p.m. Music starts at 9:00 p.m.

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Seeded Plain at Enemy

Sunday, March 13 at Enemy

1550 N. Milwaukee Ave., 3rd floor
Chicago IL 60622
www.enemysound.com

Seeded Plain March 2011 Mini-Tour
Seeded Plain is Bryan Day (Decorah, Iowa) and Jay Kreimer (Lincoln, Nebraska), two experimental instrument makers who have been performing with new and unusual sounds on instruments made from everyday objects and materials. Their Entry Codes CD on Creative Sources (Portugal) was described as “playfully cranky and enjoyable…well worth the listen.” See their March 2011 Mini-Tour schedule here.

Also on the bill:

  • Aaron Zarzutski + Nick Hoffman
    Their LP “PSYCHOPHAGI” on Pilgrim Talk was made using disassembled turntable, sewing machine, and amplified sheet metal.
  • Pelzwik
    Duo from Minneapolis, (Birthday Set with: Dinger/Talking Computron ) “…noisy drone stuff on modified toys with some melodic elements. Probably more accessible than anything anyone else is doing…” http://www.myspace.com/pelzwik
  • Eric Leonardson
    Enemy resident performs with self-built instruments made of coil springs, wood, and other pieces of hand-held, amplified detritus.
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    Springboard Solo | Sound Is Art Blog

    03.18.2010 post on Margaret Noble’s blog, a showcase for recordings of all types from around the world. Visit and listen…

    Springboard Solo

    Categories: Unusual Instruments & Gear

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    Springboard for Hardware Hacking DVD

    You can watch it here: http://vimeo.com/10216719

    “one of the 87 videos on the accompanying DVD to the second edition of Nicolas Collins’s book, Handmade Electronic Music - The Art of Hardware Hacking, published by Routledge in 2009. This 1-minute video was shot and edited by Gretchen Hasse from the original Gearwire.com video interviews about the Springboard.”


    Springboard for Hardware Hacking DVD from Eric Leonardson on Vimeo. It only takes a minute to watch!

    Ear Room Interview

    link to Ear RoomMark Peter Wright interviewed me for the March issue of Ear Room, an online publication exploring the creative use of sound in artistic practice: http://earroom.wordpress.com/

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    A recording of mine is also featured on Ear Room’s Soundcloud player audio archive.

    Eric Leonardson | Springboard Solo by Ear Room

    Performing Saturday, January 30 at Hotti Biscotti

    Music performed on traditional and invented instruments with electronics

    A rare trio performance of Greg O’Drobinak - invented instruments, electronics; Christopher Preissing - flute, percussion, electronics; Eric Leonardson - springboard, electronics

    10 PM Saturday, January 30

    Greg O’Drobinak’s electroacoustic instrument inventions

    Hotti Biscotti
    3545 W. Fullerton Ave. (corner of Drake Ave.)
    Chicago IL 60647
    773-292-6877
    21 and over, no cover
    Google Map link 

    Listen an excerpt of Greg O’Drobinak’s music

    Here’s a Chicago Reader review of 84 Charlie Mopic, the 8 PM movie screening preceding our performance: www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/MovieTimes?oid=1067859

    Upcoming Performances and Broadcasts in January

    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.

     

    Chicago Phonography at OpShop 2009

    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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