Saturday, March 22 – 3WDS14 – New York

3WDS14 – NEW YORK NODE – EAR TO THE EARTH I have a new electroacoustic composition premiering in the “Hydrosonics” program, part of the World Water Wheel on Saturday, March 22 in New York.

February 5, Concert With CPA Trio at Beat Kitchen

8:00pm Wednesday, February 5 Beat Kitchen (Upstairs) 2100 W. Belmont Ave., Chicago, Illinois 60618 (773) 281-4444 I will be a special guest performing with the CPA Trio, an improvised music group consisting of Christopher Preissing (flute, percussion), Peter Maunu (guitar, mandolin, violin), Albert Wildeman (bass). Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/495597550551316/ Listen to the CPA Trio on Soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/cpasound/sets/cpa

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

Urban Soundscapes & Critical Citizenship

I will be giving a presentation in Urban Soundscapes & Critical Citizenship, March 27th and 28th, at the University of Limerick. Titled “Our Sonic Playground: A Model For Active Engagement in Urban Soundscape,” my focus will be on recent events that engage public participation actively in the urban soundscape. Urban Soundscapes and Critical Citizenship poster… Continue reading Urban Soundscapes & Critical Citizenship

Janaury 2014 WFAE President’s Report

My President’s Report for the year-end issue of the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology (WFAE) Quarterly News has been published. This issue includes “Teaching Sound and Listening: Auditory Experiments”, a feature article by Leonardo Cardoso and a research/project report “Mapping the Sounds of Collections: Listening to Museums and Archives” By John Kannenberg. My report provides… Continue reading Janaury 2014 WFAE President’s Report

Saturday, December 7, Performance by Jay Needham and Report on Acoustic Ecology

3PM Saturday, December 7 Experimental Sound Studio 5925 North Ravenswood Avenue Chicago, Illinois 60660 Admission free, more details at www.mwsae.org. The Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology (MSAE) hosts a performance by sound artist and President of the American Society for Acoustic Ecology (ASAE), Jay Needham, entitled This is a Recording, a work for radio and… Continue reading Saturday, December 7, Performance by Jay Needham and Report on Acoustic Ecology

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

New Video With Birgit Ulher at the Renaissance Society

Birgit Ulher and Eric Leonardson from The Renaissance Society on Vimeo. This video includes the full duration of our one hour concert at Bond Chapel, on the campus of the University of Chicago. The concert begins with a solo by Birgit (trumpet) and then myself (radios, oscillator, springboard), and concludes with our duo.