Selected Performaces 2005:

SONIC ARTS AT
GALLERY ARTISTS STUDIO PROJECTS

io casino - electronics, bass and voice
Neil Leonard - woodwinds and electronics
Anne Rhodes - voice
Jonathan Chen - violin

GASP Gallery
Sunday, 18th December at 7-8 pm
362-4Boylston St., Brookline, MA

$10 suggested donation
Reservations recommended
617.731.2500
info@g-a-s-p.net
http://www397.pair.com/gasp1/
GASP is one block from the Brookline Hills stop on the MBTA ‘D’ Riverside line.

Dave Bryant Quartet at Longy School of Music
One Follen Street, Cambridge
Sunday, December 4th at 7:00 PM
Free Admission
 
Dave Bryant – piano
Neil Leonard – saxophone and electronics
John Turner – bass
Curt Newton – drums

Opening the program will be a brief (but wonderful) performance by Longy faculty Leslie Amper performing the solo piano music of William Grant Still.

December - Sound in Installations with Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons

Museum of the African Diaspora
Grand Opening Exhibit:
Dispersed: African Legacy/New World Reality
works by Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, Mildred Howard, and Marepe (Marcos Reis Peixoto)
November 26, 2005 - March 12, 2006
685 Mission Street, San Francisco, California
www.moadsf.org/index.html

W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research
Inaugural Exhibit:
Bojeo: Traces in a Fragmented History
On display through January 2005
104 Mount Auburn Street, 3R, Cambridge, MA
www.dubois.fas.harvard.edu

Bernice Steinbaum Gallery
Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons
November 26 – December 31, 2005
3550 North Miami Avenue, Miami, FL
www.bernicesteinbaumgallery.com

Julie Saul Gallery
Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons
Backyard Dreams
December 15, 2005-February 11, 2006
535 West 22 Street
6 Floor
New York, NY 10011
www.saulgallery.com

Wesleyan University
Neil Leonard: Saxophone and Electronics
A concert of saxophone and interactive electronics based on real time explorations of George Russell's Lydian Chromatic concept of tonal organization.
Date: Tuesday, November 08, 2005
Time: 08:00 PM -
Location: Memorial Chapel,
Sponsor: Music Department
Admission: Free
Event URL:
For more information: 860-685-3355

New England Skyscraper Project, conducted by Butch Morris.

Zeitgeist Gallery, 1353 Cambridge Street, Inman Square, Cambridge, MA.
September 23, 2005: 9:30

Central Square Worlds Fair, featuring The Mass. Ave., Central Square., MA.
September 25, 2005: Noon

Neil Leonard, reeds, Julee Avallone, flute, Joe Albano, bass clarinet, Todd Brunel, clarinet, Junko Simons, violoncello, Jonathan LaMaster, violin, Haruko Horii, violin, Kaethe Hostetter, viola, David Lee electric guitar, David Zox, double bass, Gary Fieldman, percussion. See www.zeitgeist-gallery.org for more det ails.

Neil Leonard-Gadi Sassoon Cybernetic Duo:
vibration ~ inscription ~ transmission
poly-algorithmik acuzmatic beats, live electronics, woodwinds

Wednesday June 1, 8:00 pm
Berklee College of Music
Fenway Recital Hall
22 Fenway Road, Boston
Admission: Free!
Wheelchair accessible

Callithumpian Consort
Beyond the edge of improv
New Music by Neil Leonard and Bhob Rainey
Friday, May 6, 2005, 7:00pm
Zeitgeist Gallery
1353 Cambridge Street, Inman Square
Cambridge, MA 02139
Tel: (617) 876-6060
Suggested donation $10

Neil Leonard presents a new work that draws on an improvised language he developed in ensembles with Marshall Allen, Don Byron, and Jamaladeen Tacuma.

Bhob Rainey presents computer/tape music, including a work based around a found wire spool from 1951. Musique concrete, Americana-style.

Leonards work will be performed by Dylan Thomas Chmura-Moore, Jeanne Drumm, Michael Norsworthy, Mimi Rabson, Jessi Rosinski, Benjamin Schwartz

From Freex to Geex
The Sonic Circuits XII: International Electronic Music Festival
Saturday April 23, 7:30 pm
Berklee College of Music
Fenway Recital Hall
22 Fenway Road, Boston

Music by Berklee College of Music faculty, students, alumni with special guest Vjs Clitch Crew. Composers performers include: Aliens At Home (Gadi Sassoon and Rob Brown), Jorrit Dijkstra, Josh Decker, Jose Hinestrosa, Tim Leeman, Dave Linnenbank, Neil Leonard, Aiko Oi, Andres Velasquez and Pierce Warnecke.

Neil Leonard and Friends in Concert
Thursday March 24, 7:30 pm
Berklee College of Music
David Friend Recital Hall
921 Boylston St., Boston

Neil Leonard presents an evening of his music performed by an all-star ensemble. Leonard and legendary pianist Oriente Lopez (Director of Afrocuba and featured on Charlie Haden's current Grammy winning recording Land Of The Sun) perform duets. Guitar virtuoso Apostolos Paraskevas performs Leonard's Mil Maneras Para Decir Adios (featured in Dakar, Senegal, 2004.) Benjamin Schwartz performs Leonard's Three Riffs for Five Strings for solo cello. Top-shelf players from the Callithumpian Consort premiere Leonard's Meditations on the Sea (Michael Norsworthy, Jessi Rosinski, Ben Russell, Benjamin Schwartz, Jordan Voelker, Dylan Chmura-Moore).

Sonic Circuits XII
International Electronic Music Festival
Tuesday March 29, 7:30 pm
Berklee College of Music
David Friend Recital Hall
921 Boylston St., Boston

Neil Leonard presents an evening of cutting edge electronic music including his Pearls Before Swine with guest artist Michael Norsworthy on bass clarinet. Leonard performs in a cyber-duo with master drummer Kenwood Dennard. Not to be missed!

SONIC ARTS AT
GALLERY ARTISTS STUDIO PROJECTS
curated by Neil Leonard

Phill Niblock – Sound Installation/Performance with Neil Leonard (reeds)
Sat. March 19; 7-11 pm
GASP Gallery
362 Boylston Street, Brookline, MA 02445

GASP is pleased to announce its spring sound art series featuring new works by established artists and composers Ron Kuivila, Phill Niblock and Amnon Wolman. Phill Niblock presents an evening of thick loud drones of music that fill the gallery while he simultaneously presents films, videos, and computer generated images that float through time.

Luanne Stovall
wet dreams: new pulse~patterns
Paintings by Luanne Stovall
Sound composition by Neil Leonard
with Natacha Sochat, Noah Dubreuil, Penney Pinette, Catherine Tutter

MFA Thesis Exhibition
January 18–30, 2005
Tisch and Koppelman Galleries
Opening Reception: Thursday, January 20, 5:30–8:30 pm

March 19-April 23
The A Gallery
The School of Fashion Design
136 Newbury Street, Boston, MA 02116

Tour of Sweden
Jan. 10-17 2005

Kulturverket, Halmstad
I performed a set of original solo compositions for alto saxophone, bass clarinet, Virus B synth and software written in Javascript and MaxMSP. Swedish composer/saxophonist Henrik Frisk performed the first set processing his tenor saxophone using custom software.

Göteborg University, School of Music
Henrik Frisk and I played our respective sets. Åke Parmerud and Per Anders Nilson performed a closing set with their electroacoustic trio.

Panora Theater, Malmö
I played one set. Frisk, Nilson and I performed a second set as a trio.

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