Tuesday, September 21 

Eric Leonardson performs live and in person at

Jarvis Square Pottery 

1443 West Jarvis Avenue in East Rogers Park, Chicago.

Doors open at 7:30 p.m. Music at 8:00 p.m. 

Tickets: $10 Donation suggested or pay what you can. Free if you’re broke, more if you have it. Unless we run out of room, we won’t turn you away.

Please be fully vaccinated and wear a mask indoors. BYOB. RSVP Eventbrite.

NEW, additional live streams to be added via YouTube and Twitch.

Program description

I’m excited to be giving my first live performance following a long hiatus from public performance, in a space outside yet very close to my home in East Rogers Park. The Jarvis Square Pottery Studio is an acoustically and socially friendly place for small intimate concerts. The Ear Taxi Spotlight Concerts share my interest in the unique character of my neighborhood, one among the many rich and diverse urban sound environments and cultures across Chicago.

Over the years since I built the Springboard in 1994, I’ve been honored to perform on it with many different and highly creative sound artists and musicians. One honor came in 2017 when fellow composer, sound artist, and author Cathy van Eck wrote, “This instrument is an excellent example of how the simple addition of a contact microphone can create a beautiful sonic phantasmagoria out of ordinary objects. When you look at the instrument, you can see all kind of familiar objects such as pieces of wood, combs, coil springs, a metal grill, a tin can lid and large rubber bands. The sounds produced by these ordinary objects are often of a surprisingly complex and varied nature. When listening to a recording, it is difficult to recognise the source of the sound and without any visual cues it often remains a mystery, which object produced which sound.” Read more at The Springboard by Eric Leonardson.

About Ear Taxi Festival Spotlight Concerts

Ear Taxi Spotlight concerts are self-produced events taking place all around Chicago, giving voice to the city’s exciting and remarkably broad array of musical styles, artistic practices, genres, and ensembles. Spotlight concerts take place September 15 through to September 29, prior to the Ear Taxi Festival Mainstage concerts from September 30 to October 4, 2021. The Ear Taxi Festival is a presentation of New Music Chicago, a membership organization founded in 2005, serving emerging and established artists and their community. Eric Leonardson EAR TAXI Spotlight Profile. Ear Taxi Festival Facebook Page. Schedule: Spotlight — EAR TAXI FESTIVAL