Events
Past Events
Sudden Sound
Eric Leonardson Springboard Trio
with Carol Genetti & Guillermo Gregorio
Thursday, October 20 · 7:30 pm - admission free
@KAM After Hours
Eric Leondardson is an audio artist who performs with the Springboard, an instrument built by the artist to explore the sonic potential of coil springs and other materials and amplified by a piezo disc contact microphone. Leonardson's trio featuring vocalist Carol Genetti and clarinetist Guillermo Gregorio evokes otherworldly landscapes in sound.
Gallery Show
Ken Butler's Hybrid Visions – Thursday, April 14, 2016 through Sunday, May 1, 2016.
Opening - Thursday, April 14, 2016 at 4:30pm.
@ Illini Union Gallery
Ken Butler's Hybrid Visions features an exhibition of his hybrid musical instrument sculptures, which are created primarily from urban detritus to express a poetic spirit of re-invention and hyper-utility as hidden
meanings and associations that momentarily create a striking and re-animated cultural identity for common objects.
Sonified Sustainability Festival
Saturday, April 16, 2016
@Krannert Center
Sonified Sustainability Festival culminates at the start of Earth Week at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts.
This all ages event,offered admission free to campus and community audiences, will feature live music by Ken Butler and area musicians including Jason Finkelman, Chad Dunn, and Tony Taylor. Interactive art making focused on sustainable practices in the arts and an accompanying information fair will provide greater visibility of local projects, programs and organizations working towards a sustainable future.
Sudden Sound
Douglas R. Ewart and Quasar
November 12 · 7:30 pm
@Krannert Center
Multi-instrumentalist Douglas R. Ewart is best known as a composer, improviser, sculptor, educator, community actiivist, and instrument maker who often utilizes found materials in his work. His long association with the AACM began as a student in 1967, as president from 1979 to 1986, and as a principal artist celebrating this year’s 50th anniversary of the organization.
Ewart's ensemble Quasar featuring Harrison Bankhead (cello), Prevas Roy (marimba),Walter Kitundu (invented instruments), Duriel Harris (poet), and Edward Wilkerson(reeds) blends music, poetry and song to express environmental concerns and celebrate the wholeness of individuals in culturally active communities.
Presented as part of Sonified Sustainability Fest
Tom Nunn and Paul Winstanley - Music For Hard Times
February 18, 2016 | 7:30pm
@ Krannert Art Museum
Tom Nunn is a San Francisco-based designer and builder of original musical instruments utilizing recycled and repurposed materials since 1976. Sculptural in appearance, Nunn’s instruments apply contact microphones for amplification, and are designed specifically for improvisation with elements of ambiguity, unpredictability and nonlinearity. In 2011, Music for Hard Times was formed with Paul Winstanley, an electric bass player from New Zealand specializing in extended techniques that produce sounds within the realm of electronic music.
Presented as part of Sonified Sustainability Fest.
Upcoming Events
Sudden Sound
Cooper-Moore
Thursday, April 20, 2017 7:30 pm - admission free
@KAM After Hours
Cooper-Moore is an instrument-builder / designer based in New York City,
whose music is informed by the avant jazz and improvised music communities he regularly performs in since the early 1970s, but is also deeply rooted in the Gospel, Blues and Bluegrass traditions from his upbringing in rural, segregated Virginia. As part of Sonified Sustainability Festival, this solo performance will feature handcrafted instruments constructed from found and repurposed materials including diddley-bow, three-string fretless banjo and mouth bow. Cooper-Moore last appeared in the Sudden Sound series as a member of Gerald Cleaver’s Black Host (April 2015).
Sonified Sustainability Festival
Saturday, April 22, 2017 2pm-5pm
@Krannert Center
Celebrate Earth Day at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts!
Sonified Sustainability Festival features live music and interactive art making focused on sustainable practice. Visit the accompanying information fair providing greater visibility of local projects, programs, and organizations working toward a sustainable future.
This all ages event is offered admission free to campus and community audiences.
