Between Air and Electricity | The Springboard by Eric Leonardson

Today, Cathy Van Eck, author of the wonderful book, Between Air and Electricity: Microphones and Loudspeakers As Instruments, posted about the Springboard. She describes my playing techniques, materials, and construction through the process of discovery. My new detailed drawings help describe its construction. Many links to a range of publications, audio, and videos are included,… Continue reading Between Air and Electricity | The Springboard by Eric Leonardson

Sound in the Land – Music and the Environment

My article, “Acoustic Ecology and Ethical Listening” appears in Section I – The Silence of Stone: Perspectives of Sound of Sound in the Land – Music and the Environment, a special edition of The Conrad Grebel Review. This book is both interdisciplinary and international, including essays about ecomusicology, soundscape aesthetics, ethnomusicology, silence, science, acoustic ecology, the… Continue reading Sound in the Land – Music and the Environment

World Listening Day 2013: R. Murray Schafer Tribute at Stratford Summer Music Festival

It was a sweltering evening at The Church Restaurant, in Stratford, Ontario on 2013 World Listening Day, where my friend Sabine Breitsameter and I had the honor of joining R. Murray Schafer, his wife Eleanor, and a large group of a hundred people in celebration of and tribute to Schafer on his 80th birthday, at… Continue reading World Listening Day 2013: R. Murray Schafer Tribute at Stratford Summer Music Festival

Book Party for Transmission Arts: Artists & Airwaves

Among the work of over 150 artists my early efforts in the field of radio, art, and radio art were cited in a new book, Transmission Arts: Artists & Airwaves (PAJ Publications, 2011) by Galen Joseph-Hunter, Penny Duff, and Maria Papadomanolaki. On Saturday, July 23 free103point9.org Transmission Arts and WGXC: Hands-on Radio (90.7-FM) will hold… Continue reading Book Party for Transmission Arts: Artists & Airwaves

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