Respire: Performance with Anna Friz at ESS on SoundCloud

ESS posted my performance with Anna Friz for the opening of Respire at Audible on its SoundCloud profile. What you hear, amongst a roomful of radios receiving the sounds of breathing and other bodily exclamations typically absent from regular radio programming, is Anna playing amplified sruti, mbira, and electronics. I performed on the Springboard and… Continue reading Respire: Performance with Anna Friz at ESS on SoundCloud

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

Sharing sounds with springboard | Daily Egyptian

Untitled from Daily Egyptian on Vimeo. An online article about my springboard just posted on April 4 in the Daily Egyptian, the newspaper of Southern Illinois University. I was interviewed by Pat Sutphin when I performed in the Outside the Box Music Festival, on Saturday, April 2. You can look and listen to it in… Continue reading Sharing sounds with springboard | Daily Egyptian

Just Listen at the National Sculpture Factory, April 15–17

Eric Leonardson performs in Just Listen, a sound art event initiated by the National Sculpture Factory in Cork, April 2011. Just Listen will include installations, performances, talks, workshops events and concerts.

Plasticene’s Graphomania, March 24–26

Plasticene’s New Work in 2011 Premiering on the enclosed stage of the Jay Pritzker Pavilion at Millennium Park, directed by Paola Colletto. Plasticene’s Graphomania  March 24-26, 2011 at 7:30 pm We live in grapho-maniacal times. Watch Plasticene’s renowned physical performers gather, record, decode, interpret and process information in a struggle to discover if privacy is… Continue reading Plasticene’s Graphomania, March 24–26

Without You I’m Nothing: The Dialogues

3:00 – 4:00 p.m. Friday, March 18 Dexter Bullard’s The Dialogues is back from its successful run at Links Hall. I will create a live sound mix to accompany two performers who improvise a telephone conversation as the audience eavesdrops on headphones, for the MCA’s Without You I’m Nothing: Interactions series. Museum of Contemporary Art… Continue reading Without You I’m Nothing: The Dialogues

Explorations in Sound, Vol. 4 The Sound of Live Performance – Various Artists

My work, titled “Feedback.mono” is on Explorations in Sound, Volume 4, The Sound of Live Performance, a net label release curated by Furthernoise editor Roger Mills. The release is a 23 track compilation of noisemakers responding to the theme of the incidental and unexpected audio consequences of live performance, and is free to download with… Continue reading Explorations in Sound, Vol. 4 The Sound of Live Performance – Various Artists

The Sounds Of Winter

Chris DeLaurenti and the Seattle Phonographers Union played one of my field recordings on the “Weekday” show today, Monday, December 20, on KUOW 94.9 Puget Sound Public Radio. The show is archived for your listening pleasure at: www.kuow.org/program.php?id=22147 My audio submission (the metallic contraction sounds of a gas furnace as it cools) and other collected… Continue reading The Sounds Of Winter

Last Broadcast of “Something Else”

On Sunday, December 19 Chicago’s longest running radio show for experimental, avant-garde music, phonography, and other genres of audio art makes its final broadcast, concluding 15-years of programming. In less than two weeks Philip von Zweck, the host and producer of Something Else who started the show in October 1995, will move on to other… Continue reading Last Broadcast of “Something Else”