The 606 Soundscape, June 18

  Join us on The 606 & Bloomingdale Trail starting 10 a.m. Saturday, June 18. Explore new soundscapes. Go on soundwalks with Amanda Gutierrez, Norman W Long, Anna Orlikowska and me. Hal Rammel and I will show how to make simple instruments. Join our Facebook Event. Schedule The 606 & Bloomingdale Trail June 18, 2016… Continue reading The 606 Soundscape, June 18

Andrea Centazzo & Friends, March 12 at Constellation

Join us for an evening of music with Italian American percussionist Andrea Centazzo and a wonderful group of musicians and their unique invented instruments: Ed Herrmann (Skatchbox), Greg O’Drobinak (Arc of the Oven), Hal Rammel (Sound Palette), and myself (Springboard), plus Volcano Radar: Rollo Radford (bass), Elbio Barilari (guitar, sax, violin), and Julia A. Miller… Continue reading Andrea Centazzo & Friends, March 12 at Constellation

Original Instruments Concert, Live at the RAM, 4-22-12

Blondena Music has released the live recording of the first concert of original music performed on original instruments at the Racine Art Museum, by Hal Rammel, Wilhelm Matthies, the Kenosha FreeGagaku Ensemble, and myself. Download or stream the recordings and see photos of the instruments and performers here on Blondena Music.

April 22, Original Instruments Concert at Racine Art Museum

Please join us at Racine Art Museum for original music played on original instruments. 2–4 PM Sunday, April 22, 2012 Racine Art Museum 441 Main Street Racine, WI 53403 262.638.8300 www.ramart.org Hal Rammel, Eric Leonardson, Wilhelm Matthies and The Kenosha FreeGagaku Ensemble will play original instruments solo and in groups. The setting is the Racine… Continue reading April 22, Original Instruments Concert at Racine Art Museum

Baschet Brothers Musical Sculpture

Experimental musicians Hal Rammel, Eric Leonardson, and Ed Herrmann will play and accompany François and Bernard Baschet’s Aluminum Piano (1962). Free with museum admission.

Crystal Baschet Concerts with Hal Rammel and Ed Herrmann

Friday, July 1 at 2–3 p.m. 4th floor gallery, Museum of Contemporary Art. Free with museum admission. Experimental musicians Hal Rammel, Eric Leonardson, and Ed Herrmann will play and accompany François and Bernard Baschet’s Aluminum Piano (1962) in the museum’s gallery. Museum of Contemporary Art 220 East Chicago Avenue Chicago IL 60611 This performance is… Continue reading Crystal Baschet Concerts with Hal Rammel and Ed Herrmann

Shapes of Sound exhibition online

Hal Rammel inspired me to make my own instruments in 1990. Tonight, I learned from him that a web page about the wonderful exhibition of experimental musical instruments and their inventors, The Shapes of Sound: Musical Instruments and the Imagination in the Midwest, curated by Hal is now online. I was honored to be among… Continue reading Shapes of Sound exhibition online