Please join me for a soundwalk with Carl Strang’s Singing Insects Monitoring Program, starting at 7 PM Friday, June 24 at North Park Village Nature Center, 5801 N. Pulaski Rd., Chicago, Illinois 60646. Limited places are available. Please contact singinginsects@gmail.com or 312-741-5472 or register on Eventbrite for Friday’s Soundwalk at North Park Village Nature Center.… Continue reading Singing Insects Monitoring Program – Night Out In The Parks 2016
Category: Field Recording
Report from Balance-Unbalance 2016 in Manizales, Colombia
Greetings! Here is some news from Balance-Unbalance in Manizales. Following my “Eco-sensing” talk on Monday, I presented briefly in a large global Live Audio Streaming Panel with Grant Smith on Wednesday. Video of the panel stream is now archived here on YouTube. We enjoyed discussing our experiences and ideas about real time location-based audio and… Continue reading Report from Balance-Unbalance 2016 in Manizales, Colombia
Water-wheel Water Works! 4 Presentation
Archived on the Water-wheel, my presentation for Water Works! 4 on March 18, 2016. Watch and listen to my co-curators’ Leah Barclay and Ricardo Dal Farra presentations. All presentations are archived at Water-wheel Media Centre. I presented works by Christina Kubisch & Eckehard Güther, Jay Needham, Christopher DeLaurenti, and Thomas M. Siefert & Lasse-Marc Riek.… Continue reading Water-wheel Water Works! 4 Presentation
WATER WORKS! Friday-Saturday 18-20 March
I am one of the curators for WATER WORKS! the 2016 Waterwheel online sharing event devoted to water in its social, economic, scientific, and artistic manifestations. Over this weekend people around the world can sign in for free to host or watch events at the Tap. My four selected works are “Railroad Storm Drain” by… Continue reading WATER WORKS! Friday-Saturday 18-20 March
Sound Department Colloquium Series – Feb 25
SOUND DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM SERIES SPRING 2016 ERIC LEONARDSON Thursday, Feb. 25th, 4.15 p.m. Room 522, 112 S Michigan This presentation open to all School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) students, staff, and faculty. Find the poster (PDF) here.
Radius Sketchpad, Saturday, December 26
Saturday, December 26, 2015 2pm – 3pm, Eastern US Time WGXC 90.7-FM: Hands-on Radio Listen live online wavefarm.org I am featured this weekend on Radius Sketchpad, a monthly program on WGXC 90.7-FM presented by the Chicago-based experimental radio platform, Radius. About this Sketchpad program…
‘Our Sonic Playground’ Journal of Urban Cultural Studies
My research article on urban soundscape awareness for the Journal of Urban Cultural Studies is now available online. “‘Our Sonic Playground’: A model for active engagement in urban soundscapes” is part of special section that “…engages with the idea of activating a ‘sonic turn’ in urban cultural studies scholarship, in part through the evocation of… Continue reading ‘Our Sonic Playground’ Journal of Urban Cultural Studies
Bison Herd at Crane Trust, Platte River
This American Bison herd lives at the Crane Trust and is one of the few that are genetically pure. Researchers are studying their restorative ecological role for cranes and other migratory birds along the Platte River, in Nebraska. We observed them during the Grassland Soundscapes Workshop, organized by the Global Sustainable Soundscapes Network (on Facebook)… Continue reading Bison Herd at Crane Trust, Platte River
ACRE The Verdant Visit
From July 22-26 I was honored to be one of several visiting artists at the ACRE Summer Residency in a rural landscape near Steuben, Wisconsin. From their website: ACRE (Artists’ Cooperative Residency and Exhibitions) is a volunteer-run non-profit based in Chicago devoted to employing various systems of support for emerging artists and to creating a… Continue reading ACRE The Verdant Visit
June 4: Klingt Gut! / Sounds Good! Field Recording Workshop, Hamburg
On Thursday, June 4 I lead a field recording workshop for the Klingt Gut! / Sounds Good! Symposium on Sound, presented by Hamburg University of Applied Sciences and the Audio Engineering Society Hamburg Student Section at the Arts and Media Campus Hamburg, Germany.