Life and art continues to keep me busy well into the summer. This July, or what remains of it has me doing: WFAE President’s Report World Listening Day Invisible Places | Sounding Cities Sounding Out! Podcast #32: The World Listening Update – 2014 Edition Articular Facet Residency at Ragdale 25 Years In Wicker Park, Moving Out… Continue reading What’s New For July 2014
Category: Places
Invisible Places | Sounding Cities Symposium
I am working on the international scientific committee for Invisible Places | Sounding Cities, a symposium on sound, urbanism, and sense of place happening 18–20 July, 2014 in Viseu, Portugal. The call for submissions was announced January 13. Three sections will be featured with a keynote by Jean-Paul Thibaud from CRNS at CRESSON for the… Continue reading Invisible Places | Sounding Cities Symposium
New article published in Leonardo Music Journal 23
Leonardo Music Journal 23 has published “Instruments of Tension: Gramophones, Springs and the Performance of Place,” an article co-authored with Jay Needham. In it, we describe the process and metaphors of our 2012 performance of “Chronography:animal.” This work is based on Jay’s 2009 field recordings from Antarctica and Herbert Ponting’s 1911 photograph of Chris the… Continue reading New article published in Leonardo Music Journal 23
April 28, New England Forum for Acoustic Ecology at Studio Soto
5pm Sunday, April 28, 2013 I will be the special guest of the New England Forum for Acoustic Ecology (NEFAE) for a public talk, followed by a reception and concert with NEFAE members. Studio Soto 10 Channel Center Street Boston, MA www.studiosoto.org suggested donation $10 Facebook Event Read the Program here:
March 30, Soundfest at Amherst College
I am creating “Similaria,” a new electroacoustic composition performance in the Mead Art Museum for Soundfest. This is part of a two-day showcase of indoor and outdoor sound installation work and performances taking place all around the Amherst College campus.
World Listening Project in Chicago Calling Festival, Oct. 10
2 PM, Saturday, October 10, 2009 Epiphany Episcopal Church 201 S. Ashland Ave. Chicago, IL 60607 312.243.4242 Admission $15 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… Continue reading World Listening Project in Chicago Calling Festival, Oct. 10
October performances with Chicago Phonography, Gino Robair
10 PM, Friday October 2 performing withChicago Phonography Brown Rice4432 N. Kedzie AvenueChicago, IL 60625www.brownricemusic.org$5 suggested donation www.chicagophonography.org 2:30 PM, Saturday October 3 performing “Divination” with Gino Robair’s large ensemble Claudia Cassidy TheaterChicago Cultural Center, 2nd floor78 E. Washington St.Chicago, IL 60605 Free admission Gino Robair returns to Chicago and presenting a new composition/conduction for… Continue reading October performances with Chicago Phonography, Gino Robair
Chicago Phonography in “Here/Not There” at Museum of Contemporary Art
I am creating an installation and five performances in Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art with Chad Clark, Brett Balogh, and fellow members of Chicago Phonography for the MCA’s Here/Not There series. Opening at 7 p.m., Tuesday, July 21 Chicago Phonography in “Here/Not There” Museum of Contemporary Art 220 East Chicago Avenue Chicago, IL 60611 Tel:… Continue reading Chicago Phonography in “Here/Not There” at Museum of Contemporary Art
Acoustic Mirror of the World in Synesthetic Plan of Chicago
The World Listening Project has built a public sound installation “Acoustic Mirror of the World” for the Synesthetic Plan of Chicago, an exhibition co-curated by Annie Heckman and Dan Godston for the Visitor Information Center of the Chicago Cultural Center. My Flickr photostream shows the construction of the WLP’s installation.
Hardware Hacking book release party & concert at Quimby’s
The 2005 Springboard video interview by Gretchen Hasse, was re-edited to 0ne minute for inclusion on the new DVD accompanying the new, expanded edition of Handmade Electronic Music – The Art of Hardware Hacking, by Nicolas Collins. Nic writes: The new edition of my book, Handmade Electronic Music – The Art of Hardware Hacking, is… Continue reading Hardware Hacking book release party & concert at Quimby’s