Antarctic Instruments at Touch the Gear this Sunday

If you've ever wanted a chance to play my natural-object instruments come to Outsound's Touch the Gear Expo this Sunday. I'll have several of my Antarctic instruments (penguin bones, rocks, and shells) set up and perhaps a few other goodies. This is a super fun, FREE event in which you get to see and try out a wide range of unusual sound-producing gizmos.

SUNDAY, JULY 21, 2013, 7-10pm
free

San Francisco Community Music Center
544 Capp Street @ 20th Street
San Francisco, CA 94110

Outsound New Music Summit: Touch the Gear Expo
A hands-on, family friendly event that allows the public to roam among 25-30 musicians and inventors with their various configurations of "gear" - everything from oscillators and electronics to planks of wood with strings attached. Exhibitors: Douglas Benner, Amar Chaudhary, Bob Marsh, Joe Lasqo, Matt Davignon, Tom Nunn, Bill Hsu, Philip Everett, David Samas, Bryan Day, Lindsey Walker, Doug Lynner aka Synthesizerman, Dr. Martin DeVideo, Ari Lacenski, Cheryl E. Leonard, Nick Wang, Andrew Wayne "Chopstick".

And I have a couple of exciting Antarctic music gigs coming up this fall so save the dates!

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2013 -  SFEMF 2013 NightLife at the Academy, California Academy of Sciences, installation/performance inspired by Antarctica's melting glaciers, with Phillip Greenlief

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2013 -  Resonance Music Series at the Exploratorium, concert of my Antarctic/Arctic music, performed by Phillip Greenlief and I

Concert May 2nd in Richmond, CA

THURSDAY MAY 2, 2013
doors 7pm, show 7:30pm
$5-10

The Schoolhouse
5523 Santa Cruz Ave. Apt #1 (ground floor)
Richmond, CA 94804

First Thursdays at The Schoolhouse
Music and video works by Cheryl E. Leonard and Betsey Biggs. I'll be presenting Meltwater, a new composition for icicles, stones, and scientific glassware. This piece is inspired by Antarctica's melting glaciers, especially the Marr Ice Piedmont which is right next to Palmer Station. Phillip Greenlief will be joining me onstage to perform this new piece. I'll also be playing Lullaby for E Seals. 

I'd like to give special thanks to The Eric Stokes Fund "Earth's Best in Tune" for supporting the creation of Meltwater.

Live on the Radio Dec 8th

Saturday December 8, 1-2 pm Pacific Standard Time
KFJC 89.7 FM

Interview and live on-air performance by Cheryl E. Leonard, featuring works inspired by the Arctic and Antarctica. I'll discuss my musical adventures in the far north and the far south, and perform my compositions Polarnatt, Lullaby for E Seals, and Eolian:Ventifact.

Listen live online at www.kfjc.org

LASER Talk & Berkeley Arts Concert

I'll be speaking about my polar music at tonight's Leonardo Art/Science Evening Rendevous (aka LASER) at Stanford University. The agenda includes four presentations of art/science projects, news from the audience, and time for casual socializing/networking.

LASER Talk 
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Stanford University, Jordan Hall (Building 420), Room 041

6:45pm-7:00pm Socializing/networking
7:00pm-9:00pm Presentations:
* Stanford author/educator Andrew Todhunter will present an educational program that bridges Biology and Art
* Visual artist  Terry Berlier will use unorthodox sculptures to meditate on the past and future of high technology
* Stanford environmental scientist Mark Jacobson will discuss a plan to power the world with wind, water, and the sun
* Composer Cheryl Leonard will play music made out of sounds from Antarctica and the Arctic
9:00pm-     Discussion, socializing

More details at http://www.scaruffi.com/leonardo/oct2012.html with links to the presenters' websites.
Before or after the break, anyone in the audience currently working within the intersections of art and science will have 30 seconds to share their work.

Past and future LASERs are listed at http://www.scaruffi.com/leonardo

 





















CONCERT at BERKELEY ARTS 
Wednesday October 17, 2012
8 pm, $10 - 20 sliding scale

Berkeley Arts
2133 University Avenue
Berkeley, CA

8 pm: Lisa Sangita Moskow, electric sarod and voice; Guillermo Galindo, Moog synth guitar and computer sounds. A journey into uncharted musical territory, blending modified traditional Eastern and Western instruments with electronics.

9 pm: Cheryl E. Leonard, amplified natural-object instruments and field recordings. Music inspired by polar seasons and ecosystems, sand dunes, and erosion patterns.

Instrument Demo at the SCAR Conference in Portland, OR

I'm in Portland, Oregon this week doing research for my Antarctic music at the SCAR (Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research) Conference. Tomorrow evening I'll be demonstrating some of my Antarctic musical instruments at the Oregon Museum of Science, in conjunction with the conference banquet. If you happen to be attending the banquet stop by and try making some sounds with penguin bones, limpet shells, and rocks from the Antarctic Peninsula.

Antarctic Instrument Demo
Wednesday July 18, 2012
starting at 6:30pm

Oregon Museum of Science (aka OMSI)
1945 SE Water Ave
Portland, OR

There are also several Antarctic Science-Art Rendevous events happening in Portland this week that all are welcome to attend: http://scar2012.geol.pdx.edu/rendezvous.php Check them out!

Concert Saturday in Alameda, California

Saturday, July 7, 2012

SssHHHH!! 
Quiet Music at the Alameda Library
1550 Oak Street
Alameda, California

8 pm Eurostache
9 pm Cheryl E. Leonard

Live video projections by: 
Bill Hsu
Keith Evans
Tim Perkis
Chris & Jessica Gomula-Kruzic

FREE ADMISSION!
Enter in the back from the library parking lot

This Saturday I'm performing a solo set of music inspired by sand dunes, fire, tectonic plates, wind, falling snow, auroras, and polar night (which Antarctica is in the midst of right now!). I'll be playing stones and shells from the Arctic and Antarctic, sea salt, driftwood, glass and shakuhachi. Field recordings will include brash ice, fire, and sounds from Pyramiden, an abandoned Russian coal-mining settlement in Svalbard.

Eurostache is a San Francisco Bay Area electro-acoustic group that focuses on real-time collaborative experiments in sound. Their music combines custom hand-built and circuit-bent instruments with conventional instruments in unusual ways, and sets aside the traditional constructs of music composition to explore the fringes of sound.

April Concerts in Fort Collins, Colorado

I'll be performing music from my Antarctic and Arctic projects next month in Fort Collins, Colorado in conjunction with the exhibition Sound Through Barriers. Also performing will be improviser Jeph Jerman, who works with found objects and self-playing sound sculptures. Q&A sessions will follow both concerts.

Monday April 23, 2012
Front Range Community College
Room RP140
Fort Collins, CO
7:30 pm, FREE

Tuesday April 24, 2012
Fort Collins Museum of Art
Lower Level
201 South College Avenue
Fort Collins, CO
7 pm, FREE

For more details visit: http://soundthroughbarriers.com/va.html