I am trilled to share news about upcoming events with Joanne Brackeen, Gadi Sassoon, Oren Fader and concerts at the Mexican Center for Music and Sound Art, Spectrum, Isabelle Stewart Gardner Museum and publications in Musicworks and Ideas Sonicas.

Musicworks just published my article on Walter Smetak, a Swiss-Brazilian cellist, transdisciplinary artist, and mystic. Working in Salvador da Bahia, Smetak performed and recorded with Gilberto Gil and Caetano Veloso, and he mentored Tom Zé. After denouncing his role as an artist and becoming a devout practitioner of Theosophy, Smetak invented 150 plásticas sonoras (sound sculptures). He designed a 22 meter high recording studio in the shape of an egg that anticipated 21st century practice decades before the rest of us.

Centro Mexicano para la Música y las Artes Sonoras  recently published an issue of Ideas Sonicas with an article recounting how I met and worked with Juan Blanco.

I hope to see you at an upcoming event!

Neil

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Thursday March 19th, 2015, 7:00 PM & 8:00 PM
Transonic, directed by Neil Leonard
Music inspired by Jean-Michel Othoniel, Gardner Museum artist in residence

Transonic
Neil Leonard - saxophone, live electronics
Joanne Brackeen - piano
Gadi Sassoon - live electronics
Anthony Baldino - modular synthesizer
Jason Lim - modular synthesizer

Isabel Stewart Gardner Museum
280 Fenway
Boston, MA 02115
http://www.gardnermuseum.org/calendar/events/6189

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Friday April 10th, 2015
Centro Mexicano para la Música y las Artes Sonoras
The Music of Neil Leonard
Concert with video in 5.1 sound diffusion

CMMAS
Morelos Norte 485 esquina con , Col. Morelia Centro
C.P. 58000, Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico
http://cmmas.org

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Tuesday, May 19th, 2015
TEDx Fenway.
Agitate/Innovate/Evolve

Solo performance saxophone and electronics
Details TBA

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Thursday, July 16, 2015, 8:30 PM
Spectrum

Music by Neil Leonard
Neil Leonard - Saxophone/electronics
Oren Fader - Guitar
Also featuring a set by guitarist William Anderson

121 Ludlow, Second Floor
New York, New York
(917) 528-1656
http://www.spectrumnyc.com

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July 27 - 31, 2015
Truro Center For The Arts At Castle Hill
Sonic Art Workshop
with Neil Leonard

Truro Center For The Arts At Castle Hill
10 Meetinghouse Road
P.O. Box 756
Truro, MA 02666
info@castlehill.org
tel. 508 349-7511
fax 508 349-7513
http://www.castlehill.org/workshop-photo.html