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.

October 22 “Our Sonic Playground” At Musuem of Contemporary Art

6–8:00 pm Oct 22, 2013 Museum of Contemporary Art 220 E Chicago Avenue Chicago IL 60611 Admission: FREE I am leading a public, interactive event on Oct. 22, part of a weekly Tuesday evening series organized by the Education Department at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. The activities planned will actively engage the… Continue reading October 22 “Our Sonic Playground” At Musuem of Contemporary Art

November 20, X-Act Sound On Free Radio SAIC

X-Act Sound, a live one-hour radio listening experience created by students of Eric Leonardson’s Introduction To Sound course, at the SAIC Department of Sound. Date: Tuesday, November 20 Time: 2:30 – 3:30 PM (US CST / GMT -6) Listen at Free Radio SAIC What you can expect to hear: sounds made live and recorded in… Continue reading November 20, X-Act Sound On Free Radio SAIC

November 19 at Myopic With Albert Wildeman (bass)

7:30 PM, Monday, November 19 Myopic Bookstore 1564 N. Milwaukee Avenue Chicago, IL 60622 Find us up on the second floor. Albert Wildeman (bass) and Eric Leonardson (springboard, electronics) perform in the weekly Myopic Improvised/Experimental Music Series, curated by Fred Lonberg-Holm, Brian Labycz and Aaron Zarzutzki. More info the Myopic Improvised/Experimental Music Series: www.myopicbookstore.com/music.html Find us… Continue reading November 19 at Myopic With Albert Wildeman (bass)

“Conversation, Improvisation, and Locality” at Theater of the Ionian Academy

Conference of the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology, “Crossing Listening Paths” in Corfu Monday, October 3, 2011 7:00 – 8:30 PM Municipal Theater of Corfu Kerkyra, Greece The World Forum for Acoustic Ecology hosts a collaborative, hybrid lecture-performance, entitled “Conversation, Improvisation, and Locality,” by Eric Leonardson (Faculty, Sound SAIC), Jay Needham (Faculty, Radio-Television, SIU, Carbondale),… Continue reading “Conversation, Improvisation, and Locality” at Theater of the Ionian Academy

Explode The Monkey #4: Chicago Edition @ Enemy

Eric Leonardson joins Berlin-based turntablist/sound artist Ignaz Schick, and many others, performing in two nights of experimental music @ Enemy. Doors open at 8:00 p.m. Music starts at 9:00 p.m.

Seeded Plain at Enemy

Sunday, March 13 at Enemy 1550 N. Milwaukee Ave., 3rd floor Chicago IL 60622 www.enemysound.com Seeded Plain is Bryan Day (Decorah, Iowa) and Jay Kreimer (Lincoln, Nebraska), two experimental instrument makers who have been performing with new and unusual sounds on instruments made from everyday objects and materials. Their Entry Codes CD on Creative Sources… Continue reading Seeded Plain at Enemy

Christian Pincock, Guillermo Gregorio, and Eric Leonardson Celebrate Art’s Birthday Live at Enemy

7:00 PM Sunday, January 16, 2011 Celebrating Art’s Birthday 2011 with Christian Pincock and Guillermo Gregorio at… Enemy 1550 N. Milwaukee Avenue, 3rd floor Chicago IL 60622 www.enemysound.com Albuquerque-based composer Christian Pincock performs original improvised compositions on electric valve trombone. Using a computer-based instrument of his own creation (using MAX/MSP) and a system of sensors… Continue reading Christian Pincock, Guillermo Gregorio, and Eric Leonardson Celebrate Art’s Birthday Live at Enemy

The Dialogues at Links Hall

I am one of three guest artists creating sound at Links Hall in this nine-show series beginning September 13. Links Hall Artistic Associate Dexter Bullard curates a series of improvised intimate phone calls between two well-known Chicago performers who are unknown to each other while the audience uses headphones to listen in… Links Hall 3435… Continue reading The Dialogues at Links Hall