tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91280723166936670392024-02-06T21:52:19.500-05:00Neil Leonard Event InformationThis blog was created by Neil Leonard to publish information regarding current concerts, installations and recordings.nleonardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16386242348218844464noreply@blogger.comBlogger165125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9128072316693667039.post-72864454107571264872017-07-29T13:47:00.001-04:002017-08-01T17:43:25.928-04:00New website and blogAfter about ten years of hosting this blog I'm posting new entries to: <a href="https://www.neilleonard.com/blog">https://www.neilleonard.com/blog</a><br />
Look for info on current projects and new sonic adventures on my website.<br />
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Thursday, March 3, 2016 - 7:30 PM<br />
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Berklee Interdisciplinary Arts Institute presents<br />
Concert for 100 iPhones<br />
Berklee College of Music<br />
David Friend Recital Hall<br />
921 Boylston Street<br />
Boston, MA, 02115<br />
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Be a performer in a smartphone concert! Interact with artists on stage and experience the debut of a new style of live performance! Experience musical and technological innovations created by Portuguese artists working with Berklee student luminaries. Audience performs new interactive works using the a.bel application running on iOS devices (iPhones/iPads).<br />
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The concert begins with a rehearsal with audience participation and concludes with a performance of compositions by BIAI students and composers:Carlos Guedes (NYU Abu Dhabi), Rui Penha, (INESC-TEC Porto), Nikhil Singh, Blake Adelman, Sakura Tsuruta, Landy Gao, Peder Barratt-Due, Ian Duclos, Lee Gilboa, Jonathan Koh, Neil Leonard (Artistic Director, BIAI). Performances by Gilberto Bernardes (saxophones), Neil Leonrd (saxophone), Nikhil Singh (electric guitar), Ryan Fedak (vibes) and Gregory McRae (snare) and the public on their iPhones.<br />
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Download the a.bel app prior to the concert here: http://a.bel.inesctec.pt/index_en.html<br />
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This concert is produced in collaboration with the Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science (INESC-TEC) and University of Porto, Portugal.<br />
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Carlos Guedes has a multifaceted activity in composition and sound design, counting numerous commissioned projects for dance, theatrical performance, film and interactive installations besides conventional concert music. His creative work has been presented mostly in Europe and the United States in several shapes and forms. He holds a PhD (2005) and MA (1996) in composition from NYU and a BM (1993) from ESMAE (Porto, Portugal). He lived for three years in the Netherlands where he attended the Institute of Sonology in the Hague between 2001 and 2002. Carlos Guedes is currently Associate Arts Professor of Music and Head of Music Program at New York University Abu Dhabi. www.carlosguedes.org<br />
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Composer and performer of live electroacoustic music, Rui Penha was born in Porto, in 1981. He completed his PhD in Music (Composition) at the University of Aveiro, where he worked under João Pedro Oliveira. His music is regularly recorded and played in festivals and concert halls around Europe and North America, by musicians such as Arditti Quartet, Peter Evans, Remix Ensemble or the Gulbenkian Orchestra. He was a funder and curator of Digitópia (Casa da Música) and has a deep interest on music technology. His recent production includes interfaces for musical expression, sound spatialization software, interactive installations, musical robots, autonomous improvisers and educational software. He taught at several Portuguese Institutions (DeCA - UA, ESMAE - IPP, ESART - IPCB, ULP), and is currently an assistant professor at FEUP and researcher at INESC TEC. More info at http://ruipenha.pt.<br />
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Gilberto Bernardes has a multifaceted activity as a saxophonist, new media artist, and researcher in sound and music computing. Bernardes holds a PhD in digital media from the University of Porto (under the auspices of the University of Texas at Austin), a Master of Music from the Conservatory of Amsterdam, a Bachelor of Music from the Polytechnic Institute of Porto, and a Degree in saxophone and chamber music from the ENM d'Issy-les-Moulineaux (Paris, France). He is a frequent presence in highly reputed music festivals and concert venues as soloist or integrated in chamber music groups. Since 2007, he has developed a research activity in generative music systems through different projects, including in its most current position as a postdoctoral researcher at the Sound and Music Computing Group—INESC Technology and Science. Addditionaly, Bernardes is an Invited Associate Professor at the Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco and Asisstant at Escola Superior de Música e Artes do Espectáculo do Porto.<br />
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Saturday, February 20, 2016 - 7:30PM<br />
Carlos Casas' Avalanche<br />
(featuring Neil Leonard and students from the Berklee Interdisciplinary Arts Institute)<br />
With special surprise guest<br />
Berklee College of Music<br />
Electronic Production and Design Recital Hall<br />
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Boston MA, 02215<br />
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Avalanche is an audiovisual performance merging landscape, soundscape, and contemporary music. Introducing Hichigh, one of the world’s highest inhabited villages, located in the Pamir mountain range in Tajikistan also known as the roof of the world. Avalanche is also an encounter with the archaic, a dialog with the overlaying of traditions and rituals within the periphery of our modern world.<br />
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For this occasion Avalanche features the collaboration with the The Berklee Interdisciplinary Arts Institute; Sakura Tsuruta, Blake Adelman, Peder Barratt-Due, Ian Duclos, Landy Gao, Lee Gilboa, Jonathan Koh, Nikhil Singh, and Neil Leonard its director.<br />
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Carlos Casas (Barcelona 1974) Filmmaker and visual artist, his work is a cross between documentary film, cinema, and contemporary visual and sound arts. His last three films have been awarded in festivals around the world from Torino, Madrid, Buenos Aires, and Mexico City and some of his video works have been presented in collective and personal exhibitions.In 2001 he started a trilogy of work dedicated to the most extreme environments on the planet, Patagonia, Aral sea, and Siberia. In 2009 he began his ongoing project Avalanche about one of the worlds highest inhabitated villages. He is currently working on a film about a cemetery of elephants on the borders between India and Nepal. http://www.carloscasas.net/<br />
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I am writing to let you know about events with Terence Blanchard, Rudresh Mahanthappa, Stephen Vitiello, Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, Carlos Casas and Dave Bryant. This work is supported by commissions from the Peabody Essex Museum, Gardner Museum and the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution. </div>
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Magdalena Campos and I have a major exhibition at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA. PEM published an amazing online:</div>
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I am showing True Bread, for 10 audio speakers and 2 video projections at the Boston Cybersarts Gallery. There is an article on the piece in the current issue of Leonardo Music Journal:</div>
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I am looking forward to a residency at the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation in Captiva, Florida to work on a piece in August.</div>
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I was fortunate to contribute to two wonderful CDs by longtime collarators:</div>
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The Garden of Equilibria by pianist/composer Dave Bryant </div>
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Abracadabra pianist/flautist/composer Oriente Lopez</div>
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January 9 - April 3, 2016</div>
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Alchemy of the Soul: Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons</div>
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Collaborative installation with Campos-Pons and sound installation</div>
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Peabody Essex Museum</div>
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Open the third Thursday of every month 10AM-9:00PM</div>
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True Bread: Sound Installation</div>
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Opening: Friday, January 15 - 6-8:00PM</div>
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Boston Cyberarts Gallery</div>
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Thursday January 21, 2016 - 6:00 PM-9:00PM</div>
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Agridulce (Bittersweet) </div>
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Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons</div>
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Neil Leonard - saxophones</div>
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Oriente Lopez - keyboard/percussion</div>
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Yusnier Sanchez - percussion</div>
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David Bryant - keyboards</div>
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Jeff Song - cello</div>
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Carlos Casas (featuring Neil Leonard and students from the Berklee Interdisciplinary Arts Institute)</div>
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Berklee College of Music</div>
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Concert for 100 Mobile Devices</div>
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David Friend Recital Hall</div>
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The Berklee Interdisciplinary Arts Institute (BIAI) presents a concert for 100 mobile devices in which the audience will perform new, interactive works using the a.bel application running on iOS devices (iPhones/iPads). Music by Carlos Guedes (INESC TEC, NYU Abu Dhabi), José Alberto Gomes (Casa da Música), Neil Leonard (Berklee College of Music, Boston USA), and Rui Penha (INESC TEC, FEUP)</div>
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Monday March 7, 2016</div>
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Neil Leonard/Stephen Vitiello Duo</div>
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University of Maine, Farmington</div>
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Thursday March 10, 2016</div>
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Neil Leonard/Stephen Vitiello Duo</div>
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186 Carpenter St.</div>
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Providence, RI</div>
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Friday March 11, 2016 - 8PM</div>
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Stephen Vitiello + Neil Leonard duo (quadraphonic set)</div>
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Non-Event</div>
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Goethe-Institut Boston</div>
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170 Beacon Street </div>
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Thursday, April 7, 2016 - 7:00PM</div>
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Stir: Neil Leonard + Rudresh Mahanthappa, saxophones</div>
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Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum</div>
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25 Evans Way</div>
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Boston, MA 02115</div>
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Thursday, April 21, 2016 - 8:15 PM</div>
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Wired for Jazz: Terence Blanchard and Neil Leonard</div>
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Berklee Performance Center</div>
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136 Massachusetts Avenue</div>
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Saturday, May 14, 2016</div>
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National Portrait Gallery</div>
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Smithsonian Institution</div>
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August 2016</div>
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Captiva, Florida</div>
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This is composer/saxophonist Neil Leonard wishing you well.<br />
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I am trilled to share news of upcoming concerts, installations and residences with Phill Niblock, Ned Rothenberg, Steven Vitiello, Rudresh Mahanthappa and Terrance Blanchard.<br />
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The Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) is presenting “Alchemy of the Soul,” a multimedia installation made in collaboration with Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons. PEM is also presenting “Cantos del Muelle,” a sound installation made in collaboration with Rafael Navarro “El Niño” Pujada, (iconic Rumba vocalist of Los Muñequitos de Matanzas.)<br />
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I hope to see you at one of these events.<br />
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Friday, September 26, 2015<br />
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CD release with David Bryant<br />
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This is the big one! To celebrate the release of our new CD, THE GARDEN OF<br />
EQUILIBRIA, we'll be performing in the same space where we did the<br />
recording. Thanks to our friends at Harvard-Epworth Church for making this<br />
possible. Hope to see you there!<br />
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Dave Bryant - keyboards<br />
Tom Hall - tenor saxophone<br />
Neil Leonard - saxophones and electronics<br />
Curt Newton - drums<br />
Eric Rosenthal - drums<br />
Gabriel Solomon - violin<br />
Jeff Song - cello<br />
Jacob William - bass<br />
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Saturday, September 26 at 8:00<br />
$10 suggested donation<br />
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Harvard-Epworth United Methodist Church<br />
1555 Massachusetts Ave.<br />
Cambridge MA<br />
he-umc.org<br />
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Wednesday, October 7, 2015, 7:00 PM<br />
Metropolitan Waterworks Museum<br />
Phill Niblock and Byron Westbrook<br />
with Neil Leonard saxophone<br />
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Metropolitan Waterworks Museum<br />
2450 Beacon Street<br />
Boston, MA 02467 (map)<br />
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Door: $15 general admission / $10 members/students<br />
Advance: $12 general admission / $8 members/students<br />
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Thursday October 22, 2015, 6:30 PM<br />
Vox Novus XV Festival<br />
Oren Fader plays Leonard’s Mil Maneras for acoustic guitar and electroics<br />
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Gallery MC,<br />
Circuit Bridges Concert No 36: Vox Novus XV Festival<br />
549 W 52nd St<br />
New York, NY, United States<br />
http://www.voxnovus.com/circuitbridges/<br />
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Monday, October 26, 2015, 9:30 PM<br />
Casa da Música<br />
a.bel - New Interactive Music<br />
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Music by Carlos Guedes (INESC TEC, NYU Abu Dhabi), José Alberto Gomes (Casa da Música), Neil Leonard (Berklee College of Music, Boston USA), and Rui Penha (INESC TEC, FEUP);<br />
Performers: André Dias, Gilberto Bernardes (INESC TEC) and Digitópia Collective.<br />
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Celebrating the 30th anniversary of<br />
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores/Tecnologia e Ciência.<br />
Casa de Music, Porto<br />
Porto, Portugal<br />
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Friday, November 20, 2015, 7:00 PM<br />
Berklee College of Music<br />
Ned Rothenberg (woodwinds)<br />
Neil Leonard (woodwinds/electronics)<br />
David Tronzo (guitar)<br />
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Berklee College of Music<br />
Electronic Production and Design Recital Hall<br />
22 Fenway, Room 112<br />
Admission: Free!<br />
Wheelchair accessible<br />
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January 9, 2016 to March 20, 2016<br />
The Peabody Essex Museum<br />
Alchemy of the Soul<br />
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Multimedia installation with Campos-Pons<br />
Sound installation with Rafael Navarro “El Niño” Pujada<br />
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The Peabody Essex Museum,<br />
East India Square<br />
Salem, Massachusetts 01970<br />
978-745-9500<br />
http://www.pem.org/exhibitions/188-alchemy_of_the_soul_maria_magdalena_campos-pons<br />
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Wednesday, March 7-11, 2016<br />
University of Maine<br />
Neil Leonard and Stephen Vitiello<br />
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March 7, University of Maine, Farmington<br />
March 8, University of Maine, Orono<br />
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April 7, 2016<br />
Isabel Stewart Gardner Museum<br />
Neil Leonard (saxophone/electronics)<br />
Rudresh Mahanthappa (saxophone/electronics)<br />
Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons (video)<br />
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Stir series<br />
Details TBA<br />
Isabel Stewart Gardner Museum<br />
280 Fenway<br />
Boston, MA 02115<br />
http://www.gardnermuseum.org/<br />
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Thursday, April 21, 2016 - 8:15 PM<br />
An Evening with Terrance Blanchard<br />
Presented by The Electronic Production and Design Department<br />
Directed by Neil Leonard<br />
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Berklee Performance Center<br />
136 Massachusetts Avenue, Boston, MA, 02115<br />
617 747-2261<br />
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August 21-September 2, 2016<br />
Robert Rauschenberg Foundation<br />
Artist in Residence with Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons<br />
Captiva, Florida<br />
http://www.rauschenbergfoundation.org/residency/artists-residencenleonardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10811507891302376621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9128072316693667039.post-86749518417732345762015-05-14T22:18:00.002-04:002015-05-14T22:21:51.772-04:00The Cellar and Point with Neil Leonard + Transonic II<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Saturday, May 23, 2015<br />
The Cellar and Point with Neil Leonard + Transonic II<br />
The Lilypad, Inman Square<br />
1353 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA 02139<br />
http://lilypadinman.com/<br />
$10<br />
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New York-based "garage-chamber" ensemble The Cellar and Point hosts a special evening at The Lilypad featuring a solo set by saxophonist/composer Neil Leonard and a performance by Transonic II - an electroacoustic ensemble comprising Dave Bryant, Neil Leonard, Ricardo de Lima, Andrew Neumann.<br />
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The Cellar and Point will be performing music from their recent critically acclaimed record on Cuneiform Records, "Ambit". The record was included on Soundcheck host John Schaefer's Top 10 recordings of 2014 and was called "one of 2014's finest albums of challenging, engaging, and genre-defying contemporary music" by AllMusic. The Cellar and Point's musical universe comprises the detail of modern concert music, the improvisational sensibilities of downtown jazz, and the emotional directness of alt-rock. AllAboutJazz has declared the group "one of the most interesting bands of the moment, perhaps able to answer the question 'where is music going?'"<br />
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Saxophonist/composer/electronic musician (and Artistic Director of Berklee College of Music's Interdisciplinary Arts Institute) Neil Leonard, will present original works from his recent electro-acoustic recordings For Kounellis and Mil Maneras.<br />
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The evening will open with a live electronic performance by luminary artists Dave Bryant, Ricardo de Lima, Andrew Neumann as Transonic II.<br />
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The Cellar and Point (9pm):<br />
www.thecellarandpoint.com<br />
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Formed in 2010 by drummer/composer Joseph Branciforte and guitarist/composer Christopher Botta, The Cellar and Point features an impressive cross-section of young talent from NYC's classical, jazz, and new music scenes (including members of JACK Quartet, Mivos Quartet, Ensemble Signal, and TRANSIT). Their songbook includes original compositions and idiosyncratic arrangements of composers such as Anton Webern and Gyorgy Ligeti.<br />
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Joseph Branciforte, drums<br />
Christopher Botta, acoustic guitar<br />
Christopher Otto, violin<br />
Kevin McFarland, cello<br />
Joe Bergen, vibraphone<br />
Terrence McManus, electric guitar<br />
Greg Chudzik, bass<br />
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Neil Leonard (8pm)<br />
www.neilleonard.com<br />
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Neil Leonard is a composer, saxophonist and interdisciplinary artist. His work ranges from solo concerts for saxophone/live electronics, to works for orchestra, audio/video installation and sound for dance, theater and performance. He will be presenting original electro-acoustic works for saxophone and electronics.<br />
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TRANSONIC II (7pm)<br />
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Dave Bryant, moog synthesizer<br />
Ricardo de Lima, electronics<br />
Neil Leonard, bass clarinet<br />
Andrew Neumann, Buchla Easel, misc electronicsnleonardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10811507891302376621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9128072316693667039.post-16902968126318524202015-03-13T18:31:00.000-04:002015-03-13T18:31:05.395-04:00I 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.<br />
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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.<br />
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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.<br />
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I hope to see you at an upcoming event!<br />
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Neil<br />
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Thursday March 19th, 2015, 7:00 PM & 8:00 PM<br />
Transonic, directed by Neil Leonard<br />
Music inspired by Jean-Michel Othoniel, Gardner Museum artist in residence<br />
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Transonic<br />
Neil Leonard - saxophone, live electronics<br />
Joanne Brackeen - piano<br />
Gadi Sassoon - live electronics<br />
Anthony Baldino - modular synthesizer<br />
Jason Lim - modular synthesizer<br />
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Isabel Stewart Gardner Museum<br />
280 Fenway<br />
Boston, MA 02115<br />
<a href="http://www.gardnermuseum.org/calendar/events/6189">http://www.gardnermuseum.org/calendar/events/6189</a><br />
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Friday April 10th, 2015<br />
Centro Mexicano para la Música y las Artes Sonoras<br />
The Music of Neil Leonard<br />
Concert with video in 5.1 sound diffusion<br />
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CMMAS<br />
Morelos Norte 485 esquina con , Col. Morelia Centro<br />
C.P. 58000, Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico<br />
<a href="http://cmmas.org/">http://cmmas.org</a><br />
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Tuesday, May 19th, 2015<br />
TEDx Fenway.<br />
Agitate/Innovate/Evolve<br />
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Solo performance saxophone and electronics<br />
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Thursday, July 16, 2015, 8:30 PM<br />
Spectrum<br />
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Music by Neil Leonard<br />
Neil Leonard - Saxophone/electronics<br />
Oren Fader - Guitar<br />
Also featuring a set by guitarist William Anderson<br />
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121 Ludlow, Second Floor<br />
New York, New York<br />
(917) 528-1656<br />
<a href="http://www.spectrumnyc.com/">http://www.spectrumnyc.com</a><br />
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July 27 - 31, 2015<br />
Truro Center For The Arts At Castle Hill<br />
Sonic Art Workshop<br />
with Neil Leonard<br />
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Truro Center For The Arts At Castle Hill<br />
10 Meetinghouse Road<br />
P.O. Box 756<br />
Truro, MA 02666<br />
info@castlehill.org<br />
tel. 508 349-7511<br />
fax 508 349-7513<br />
<a href="http://www.castlehill.org/workshop-photo.html">http://www.castlehill.org/workshop-photo.html</a><br />
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Thursday March 19th, 2015, 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM<br />
Transonic, directed by Neil Leonard<br />
Music inspired by Jean-Michel Othoniel, Gardner Museum artist in residence<br />
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Transonic<br />
Neil Leonard - saxophone, live electronics<br />
Joanne Brackeen - piano<br />
Gadi Sassoon - live electronics<br />
Anthony Baldino - modular synthesizer<br />
Jason Lim - modular synthesizer<br />
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Isabel Stewart Gardner Museum<br />
280 Fenway<br />
Boston, MA 02115<br />
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/807115176025700/">https://www.facebook.com/events/807115176025700/</a><br />
<a href="http://www.gardnermuseum.org/calendar/events/6189">http://www.gardnermuseum.org/calendar/events/6189</a><br />
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This concert features an ensemble of innovative musicians with important careers in modular synthesizer design, music for film and improvisation. Led by Neil Leonard, the group features pioneering jazz composer/pianist and National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master Joanne Brackeen on piano.<br />
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Juan Blanco: A Cultural Counterpoint<br />
by Neil Leonard<br />
[author's draft - published by <a href="http://www.sonicideas.org/prologue.php?vol=7&num=13&secc=prologue" target="_blank">www.sonicideas.org</a>]<br />
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This article discusses my encounters with Cuban composer Juan Blanco, the context in which I met him and how we formed a working relationship despite a parade of obstacles. For biographical surveys of Blanco’s life including discussion of his major works, see my features in Computer Music Journal [1], MusicTexte [2] and notes to “Nuestro Tiemo” the first CD of his work that I co-produced for Innova Recordings [3].<br />
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The closest neighbor<br />
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I picked up the thread that led me to Juan Blanco as a teen playing in Philadelphia bands in the late 1970s. Ensembles that I followed were transforming the sound of jazz by hiring Brazilian percussionists. The first Brazilian musician that I noticed was Airto Moreira who toured with Miles Davis, Weather Report and Chick Corea. Dom Um Romao and Alyrio Lima followed in Weather Report. Guilherme Franco came later and played with the acoustic ensembles of McCoy Tyner and Keith Jarrett.<br />
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To members of my band it was clear that we needed percussionist who could play something like these masters. My bandmate, trombonist Robin Eubanks, brought an incredible young Afro American percussionist Frank Williams to join us. Inspired largely by Bill Summers who played with Herbie Hancock’s Headhunters, and local percussionist Leonard “Doc” Gibbs and Robert Crowder, Williams was investigating music of the African diaspora, including music of Brazil, Haiti and Cuba. As Frank began to mentor me he made it clear that his musical compass pointed to the music of Cuban immigrants, Mongo Santamaria, Chano Pozo and Armando Peraza.<br />
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The past twenty five years of development in Cuba including, emerging generations of musicians, the states' entire LP catalog and what they knew about us remained a mystery. At that time there was no internet. No market for 'world music.' No articles on Cuban music in DownBeat or any music journal. There was no curriculum in conservatories dedicated to any form of Caribbean culture that I was aware of. The US trade embargo and travel restrictions had separated us and Cuba could not have seemed more distant. Williams insisted that there were masters of Yoruba music in Cuba who spent all day playing folkloric music, supported by some unspecified source, but that unconfirmed factoid was where our knowledge of musical life in Cuban ended.<br />
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All of this changed when I heard the LP recording of Cuban jazz band Irakere published by Columbia/CBS Records in 1979. The LP "Irakere" was the only recording of Cuban musicians released in the US since the beginning of the trade embargo. Parts of the LP were recorded during their electrifying debut performance at Avery Fisher Hall in New York. With this LP, the vacuum between Cuba and the US was obliterated in one fell swoop. I dreamt of playing with Irakere. When the opportunity to travel to the Soviet sponsored island arose, I jumped at the opportunity to hear more.<br />
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I first traveled to Cuba in 1986. In a week long, 600-mile bus tour with fellow US musicians and musicologists and I visited Santiago de Cuba, Holguin, Camaguey, Matanzas and finally Havana. I played with founding member of Irakere, Carlos Emilo Morales and Carlos Averhoff, heard Afrocuba de Matanzas, spoke with musicologist Danilo Orozco and visited arts schools. The first night we heard the regional folkloric troupe of Santiago de Cuba in the city plaza with a chorus of women emerging from backstage dancing in wooden sandals and a band member playing the “Trompeta China” or suona introduced by Chinese immigrants and adapted to Afrocuban carnival music.<br />
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By this time I had graduated from New England Conservatory and was beginning to experiment with digital instruments. As we toured the island I got word that there was a Cuban electronic music composer named Juan Blanco living in Havana. I asked the tour organizers if we could meet him. On our last day in Cuba musicologist Maria Elena Vinueza and Juan Blanco received us at Instituto Cubana de Amistad con el Pueblo (ICAP). Blanco described the work his studio and gave us his long-playing record Música Electroacústica.<br />
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Back in the US when I finally could listen to Blanco's LP I was stunned by Cirkus-Toccata for Afro-Cuban percussionists and tape. The percussionists, Guillermo Barreto (timbales) and Tata Güines (congas), were two of the most celebrated masters of their instruments, virtuosos in many Afro-Cuban genres who had accompanied countless luminaries who visited the island. Barreto famously sat in with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, replacing top US drummer Buddy Rich and sight reading the parts. Barreto and Güines performed with Weather Report in Havana during the Havana Jam festival in 1979. For Cirkus-Toccata Blanco used the note sequencer and arpeggiator on the studio's Roland Jupiter 8 synthesizer. Using an eight-track tape recorder, Blanco created a dense tapestry of polyrhythmic patterns. To complement the tape composition, he wrote parts to guide the percussionists though changes in styles, meters and tempos, which Güines and Barreto studied and then rejected in favor of improvising along with the tape in the spirit of Blanco's score. The coalescence of electronically generated sound, experimental composition, Afro-Cuban folkloric music and jazz improvisation sounded unlike anything we had heard in the US. Somehow, working in the modest studio in the Caribbean, Blanco had stayed current with global developments created a remarkable body of work rooted in Cuban culture.<br />
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Primavera in Varadero<br />
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I returned to Cuba in 1987, after which I considered my investigation with Cuban music complete. There was much more to learn about the connections between the US and Cuba, but as a Yankee I was set on exploring musical growth within my own culture. In 1988 I met Cuban based artist Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons while she was studying in Boston and things changed again. I eventually followed her back to Cuba. Blanco, along with Chucho Valdes, Oriente Lopez, Emiliano Salvador and Gonzalo Rubalcaba were the first musicians I sought out.<br />
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Blanco quickly supported my presence and programed a concert of my early electroacousic pieces in 1989 at the Casa de la Música Alejandro Garcia Caturla. He later invited me to the biannual Festival Internacional de Música Electroacústica "Primavera en Varadero." One of the composers I met there was Ricardo Dal Farra from Argentina. Regarding the festival Dal Farra recalls, "I was there in 87 and 89. Juan was bringing together many composers (and also some researchers) from around the world who were not coming to Latin America. There were almost no festivals like that in the region, especially considering the festival's continuity through many years. I met Ahmed Malek from Algeria, Carlos Vázquez from Puerto Rico, Alvise Vidolin and "Pepino" Di Giugno from Italy, Lejaren Hiller and Vivian Adelberg Rudow from the US, Frits Weiland from The Netherlands, Leo Kupper from Belgium and, of course, Cuban composers Edesio Alejandro, Jesús Ortega, Juan Piñera, Juan Marcos Blanco, and Julio Roloff among others.<br />
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"Another unique component of the festival was the large multimedia performance that closed the festival, always done with certain austerity due to serious budget limitations but with enough creativity to make of those moments unforgettable. In Varadero we were surrounded by miles of white sandy beach. Concerts or lectures were delivered in an open-air tennis court or in a cabaret. The time was flowing differently in those events. They could be starting up to an hour and a half later than announced, but nobody was in a rush and we had time to talk and exchange ideas and to start projects [4]."<br />
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At the festival I had the opportunity to meet Armando Hart, Minister of Culture, Argeliers León, a composer and musicologist who studied with Fernando Ortiz and Maria Teresa Linares, director of the Museo Nacional de la Musica.<br />
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I also met Blanco’s sons, Enmanuel Blanco who later directed the festival and composer Juan Marcos Blanco. Juan Marcos recalls, “The Festival de Musica Electroacustrica Primavera en Varadero opened a possibility for composers from all cultures and ideologies to meet and create art. It was unique. In my view, the most important aspect of the festival was cultural exchange and the freedom of expression that filled the festival for the duration. My father was a man with an open mind, a revolutionary of musical creation and this is what we breathed in the festival: creative Freedom [5].”<br />
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One of Juan Marco’s capstone works featured by the festival was OSHUN (1991), involving the Conjunto Folklórico Nacional, dance students from Instituto Superior de Arte, actors, pyrotechnics, lighting design, live electronics and a sound track. Juan Marcos explains, “I made a work with light and sand. In preparation the dancers were buried in the beach in Varadero. We put lights level with the sand. When the public arrived they did not see people buried. When the music began and the lights light up, little by little, the dancers began to bring parts of their bodies out of the sand. It seemed like something supernatural … like the beginning of life on earth [5].”<br />
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The festival was just one of Blanco's initiatives many to help Cuban musical culture. In the late 1940's Blanco formed the Sociedad Amadeo Roldan to promote the study and presentation of contemporary works drawing on all of Cuba’s musical traditions. Blanco later expanded Sociedad Amadeo Roldan to include artists and writers and changed its name to Sociedad Cultural Nuestro Tiempo (Our Time). Much like the group of artists who gathered at Black Mountain College in the U.S. at the same time (John Cage, Robert Rauschenberg, Merce Cunningham and David Tutor), Nuestro Tiempo attracted the participation and attention of the finest artists in the country. Nuestro Tiempo was not sponsored by any college or institution so in the tradition of North American innovator Charles Ives, Blanco often paid for concerts out of his own salary. With his help the group became the most important collective voice of the pre-revolution Cuban renaissance.<br />
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Crisis<br />
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As documented in the Lester Hamlet's film Juan, (2010) [6] Blanco was tolerant of diversity in life styles and ideological thinking. The ICAP studio was open to gays, suspect rock musicians and a number of international guests. We jokingly said that Blanco had been around for so long that the officials already thought that there was no hope to change him.<br />
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I witnessed Juan’s independent attitude and un-wavering support for non-mainstream artists when I moved to the island for a year in July, 1989. A week before I arrived, four high ranking officials were convicted of treason and executed by firing squad. I later read in the international press that they were suspected of plotting a coup d' état. In the wake of their trial, dozens of other officials were fired from their jobs (put in “plan pijama”) for connections to the accused. Their trial was broadcast on television and widely viewed. Discussions about the situation were filled with code words and body language. My presence during these conversations only made Cubans more nervous. I listened, without saying a word, unable to fully understanding the depth of the crisis.<br />
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Months earlier, I had been invited to lecture at the Escuela de Diseño by its director, Raul Castro's brother-in-law. By the time I arrived even my contact had been let go. I was back to square one as far as having a host for lectures was concerned.<br />
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Of all the Cubans I knew outside of my fiancé's family, Blanco was among the most welcoming during this time of high-alert. It was clear that he was in no position to arrange lectures at his studio, but he told me that he was waiting for things to change so he could work with me. He trusted that having an international lecturer in his studio was simply in everyone’s best interest.<br />
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Celebration<br />
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On the lighter side, Juan did find a way to help when I was married. In August, 1989, the day before our civil marriage Magdalena and I stopped by Juan's office to invite him to the wedding reception. Juan was only too happy to help us round up provisions for the party. The day of the wedding he showed up at our home in his Soviet made Lada at 6:00 AM to drive us to the food market for foreign diplomats and Cuban elite. Driving from our rustic neighborhood of Luyano to Miramar, Juan proudly recounted the highlights of his marriage ceremonies, all six of them. Blanco had six sons, one by each wife and lost six houses in divorce settlements. The crowning achievement was a grandiose wedding reception to celebrate his marriage to the niece of the president of the Republic. They invited family from far and wide and were showered with silverware. Shortly after, Blanco sold all of the silverware, bought a grand piano and retreated to Varadero by the beach for the better part of a year.<br />
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Laboratorio Nacional de Musica Electroacustica<br />
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In 1989 personal computers were becoming affordable as were samplers, synthesizers and numerous signal processing instruments. MIDI was relatively new and could be heard in productions worldwide. Cuban musicians who could save their modest Cuban government per diem while touring abroad were beginning to assemble modest digital music studios.<br />
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The Ministry of Culture was becoming aware of the need for musicians to begin to work with these new technologies. I helped band leaders Oriente Lopez (Afrocuba) and Miguel Nuñez (Pablo Milanes) get started using the Atari computer and samplers that they purchased in London. Pablo Milanes met with me to start a discussion regarding how I might be able to advise him as he built a private studio. Many other musicians asked me to teach them privately.<br />
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This same year, Oriente Lopez wrote a petition to the Ministry of Culture requesting that it host a series of lectures so I could share the information on music technology. Brouwer asked me to meet him in front of the Ministry of Culture so he could sign the petition and invite other Ministry advisors to support the petition. With Leo's signature Chucho Valdes (Director of Irakere), Juan Formell (Director Los Van Van), Adalberto Alvarez, Roberto Valera (composition professor at Instituto Superior de Arte) signed as well. Of course, Juan was only too happy to support the campaign.<br />
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The Ministry responded positively to the petition. They recognized that Blanco's studio was the best place to offer my lectures. Around this time, the ministry also assumed control of the ICAP studio renaming it the Laboratorio Nacional de Musica Electroacustica (LNME). At LNME my students included Roberto Valera, Donato Poveda, Ileana Perez-Velazquez, Fernando Rodriguez, Jesus Ortega, Juan Piñera and Julio Roloff, a group that spanned three generations.<br />
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As a guest lecturer I frequented the LNME studio several times a week. Speaking with Juan, I learned how he mentored Cuban jazz star Paquito D'Rivera, frequented Bembes in Guanabacoa with novelist Alejo Carpentier, was hired and fired by Che Guevara, composed the score for Tomás Gutiérrez Alea's film Las doce sillas. I saw Blanco, in his 70’s, acquire a NeXT computer and was generating pieces with computer programs of his design. The information that Juan shared in these discussions became the basis of the biographical articles mentioned earlier.<br />
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I left Cuba in 1990 and stayed in touch with Juan. I returned to his festival in 1993, during the "special period," an era following the withdrawal of Russian sponsorship and a dire time for all Cubans. At the festival composer Roberto Valera announced that his work, “Periodo Espacial,” a play on this new crisis was composed during endless wait times for public transportation.<br />
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I returned to his festival again in 2000 for Blanco’s 80th birthday celebration. I had collected recordings by Blanco and asked for permission to produce a CD of his work. Juan gladly endorsed the project but said that he would be listening "from another galaxy." Philip Blackburn from the Innova Recordings agreed to co-produce the CD with me.<br />
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Nuestro Tiempo includes Cuba’s first work of electroacustic music Musica para Danza, completed in 1961 and presented on CD for the first time. Unable to leave Cuba to work in studios where the more advanced electronic instruments were available, Blanco acquired three modest Sears Silvertone tape decks and created ths futuristic and distinctly Cuban work that marks the beginning of his remarkably journey in working with electronic sound.<br />
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Also included on the CD are, Cirkus-Toccata (1983), Ella (1983) and Galaxia M-50 (1979) all realized in the ICAP studio. Blanco’s work for the direct digital synthesis capabilities of Stephen Job’s NeXT machine is represented by Loops (1991). The lastest work on this CD is Espacios V (1993) dedicated to me and premiered on a tour of the U.S. the same year. The piece in one in a series that also features Leo Brower and Paquito D'Rivera using an electronic score created in the ICAP studio.<br />
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From Boston, rounding up photos was no easy chore. At the point when I was almost resigned to go to print with out photos, a disk of photos suddenly arrived from Enmanuel Blanco, carried out of Cuba though a mutual friend. He sent photos of Blanco with Cuban revolutionaries, Che Guevara and Camilo Cienfuegos, Cuban national poet Nicolás Guillén, celebrated African-American contralto Marion Anderson, pre-eminent cellist/conductor Pablo Casals, and compute music innovators Max Matthews and Jean-Claude Risset. Even in his passing, Blanco could still surprise me and reveal a part of Cuban culture that I could only learn from him.<br />
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Biography<br />
1. Leonard, N., 2003, Juan Blanco: Kubas Pionier der Elektroakustischen Musik, MusicTexte, Dec. pp. 25-32.<br />
2. Leonard, N., 1997, Juan Blanco: Cuba's Pioneer of Electro-Acoustic Music, Computer Music Journal, Vol. 21, Num. 2, Summer, pp. 10-20.<br />
3. Juan Blanco: Nuestro Tiempo, 2013. [CD], Produced by Neil Leonard and Philip Blackburn, United States: Innova Recording<br />
4. Dal Farra, R., personal communication, April 14, 2014<br />
5. Blanco, J.M., personal communication, April 21, 2014<br />
6. Juan, 2010 [DVD], produced by Lester Hamlet, Cuba: Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industria Cinematográficos<br />
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Figures<br />
Figure #1 Juan Blanco with Pablo Casals<br />
Figure #2 Juan Blanco with Ernesto “Che” Guevara<br />
Figure #3 Juan Blanco with Nicolás Guillén<br />
Figure #4 Juan Blanco with Neil Leonard, Juan’s home in Alamar, circa 2001<br />
Figure #5 Juan Blanco: Nuestro Tiempo, 2013. [CD], Produced by Neil Leonard and Philip Blackburn, United States: Innova Recording<br />
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Neil Leonard is the Artistic Director of Berklee College of Music's Interdisciplinary Arts Institute. He is currently on the Fulbright Specialist Roster and is a Research Affiliate at MIT's program in Art, Culture and Technology.<br />
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secular spiritual music for a New World. After leaving the gallery I kept
hearing it, with delight, in my head, on the street, all afternoon."</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Holland
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Kounellis</i></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, an </span>extraordinary CD that features </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">meditative, evocative electronic music created for a performance
on Mount Vesuvius, Naples</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">. The music draws on
Leonard’s association with top-shelf artists including <b>Marshall Allen, Joanne
Brackeen, Don Byron, Richard Devine, </b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Bill
Frisell,<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> Vijay Iyer, Rudresh
Mahanthappa, Phill Niblock, Robin Rimbaud aka Scanner </span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">and<b> </b></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Evan Ziporyn</span></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Leonard's
exciting and unconventional work is known widely through three decades of collaborations
with visual artists featured by the <b>Museum of Modern Art, Guggenheim Museum,
Whitney Museum </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">and <b>Venice
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is a meditative, evocative electronic work
featuring samples from Jannis Kounellis' sculpture, voice, live electronics and
soprano saxophone. The sounds are based on Kounellis' untitled installation
comprising 23 large church bells that Leonard recorded at the environmental
sculpture park, La Marrana di Montemarcello
in Italy. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">"The bells appear
to spiral out from a cylindrical chamber rooted in the Earth’s core. I was
struck by the intensity of this chorus of silent tongues, facing the sky and
projecting a colossal resonance that is felt but is not heard. Like Kounellis’
inverted bells, Vesuvius’ mouth is a sonic hallmark of local history. Both face
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local Vesuvian singer Alessia de Capua. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“I
processed and wove her voice thick choral textures that are intended to have
the haunting, ancient quality suggested by both Kounellis installation of
silent bells and the ominous volcano on which we premiered the piece. Alessia
was new to this work but she instinctively knew how to create the atmosphere
needed. Her voice became the sound of her native Vesuvian landscape.”</i> The
results are a unique combination of processed sound and acoustic performance
that defies categorization.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<i style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="color: white;">"Mr. Leonard creates a haunting, rhythmic, chantlike score,
secular spiritual music for a New World. After leaving the gallery I kept
hearing it, with delight, in my head, on the street, all afternoon."</span></span></i><br />
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Cotter, New York Times, October 2013</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><o:p></o:p></span></u></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">GASP Records announces the release of <b><i>Mil
Maneras </i></b>by<b><i> </i></b>composer/electronic musician<b> Neil Leonard</b>.
This extraordinary EP features hypnotic grooves, ethereal electronic sounds and
performances by virtuoso guitarist <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Oren
Fader</b>. The music draws on Leonard’s association with top-shelf artists
including <b>Marshall Allen, Joanne Brackeen, Don Byron, Richard Devine, </b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Bill Frisell,<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> Vijay Iyer, Rudresh Mahanthappa, Phill Niblock, Robin Rimbaud aka
Scanner </span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">and<b> </b></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Evan Ziporyn</span></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Mil Maneras</span></i></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> showcases the work that Leonard developed when he broke with
musical convention and began collaborating with visual artists thirty years
ago. These pieces are known widely through exhibitions and performances at the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum,
Guggenheim Museum </b>and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Venice
Biennale</b>. <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="color: white;">The title track <i><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Mil Maneras</span></i><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> was created</span> for a mixed media installation with artist Maria
Magdalena Campos-Pons for the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Dak’Art
Biennial of Contemporary African Art</b> where the sound was heard in an
abandon textile factory. <i>“The atmospheric beginning has no rhythm, melody or
harmony, just clouds of ethereal sound that evoke the ghosts for workers past.
The groove that follows alludes to the perpetual rhythm of the factory full of
machines pulling in threads and spinning out fabric displaying striking
Senegalese designs.” <o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Interiority</span></i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> is a highly evocative miniature suite created for<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> a permanent installation on an Italian
mountaintop. The work comprises a nocturnal experience in which visitors
encounter a constellation of orbs that display video imagery, project
electronic sound and reveal illuminated inscriptions<i>. “The sound is inspired
by paintings in the Etruscan necropolis in Tarquinia where frescos depict the
afterlife as a vibrant and seductive continuation of our present existence. I
created subtle and varied sonic textures to maintain the allure for the local
population who will experience the piece for years to come."<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Mil Maneras</span></i></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> concludes with the blast-furnace
strength performance by Oren Fader on <i>Vitrales. “The piece combines the montunos and drumming of timba
bands that I heard in Cuba with extended approaches to jazz composition
introduced to me by George Russell. Parts of the piece were drafted using
computer programs that I designed but the final version was made by hand, often
with the guitar in my lap to feel how fingers dance.” Vitrales</i> creates a mosaic of unique rhythms,
intricate counterpoint and shimmering harmonies to create a new music for 21<sup>st</sup>
Century listeners.</span></span><!--EndFragment-->
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Great to see this review of my CD with Juan Blanco in Muscworks. "I admit that my first close encounter with Nuestro Tiempo was akin to stumbling upon an alien spacecraft (with vintage gear percolating inside) … Beam me up, Blanco."<br />
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nleonardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16386242348218844464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9128072316693667039.post-673427960646661152013-07-16T18:32:00.001-04:002013-07-16T18:32:28.989-04:00Concert with the great Dave Bryant, John Menegon and Chris Bowman.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />nleonardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16386242348218844464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9128072316693667039.post-42037337999489253902013-07-05T15:27:00.002-04:002013-07-05T15:28:32.084-04:00From Granma, Cuba's daily newspaper<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />nleonardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16386242348218844464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9128072316693667039.post-72609029734564896242013-07-05T15:25:00.002-04:002013-07-05T15:29:46.449-04:00A recent article from Il Corriere della Umbria<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A recent article from Il Corriere della Umbria on a concert with Alessandro Petrolati, Carlo Fatigoni and the Urbino Laptop Orchestranleonardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16386242348218844464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9128072316693667039.post-78602880409604856262013-06-11T03:21:00.003-04:002013-06-11T03:26:34.955-04:00Reviews of 53+1=54+1=55.Letter of the Year<div>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/06/arts/design/venice-biennale-in-its-55th-edition.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0" target="_blank">New York Times</a><span id="goog_195242587"></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/"></a><a href="http://www.artnews.com/2013/06/06/gallery-of-venice-biennale-artist/" target="_blank">Art News</a><br />
<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/mundo/noticias/2013/06/130604_bienal_venecia_borges_ar.shtml" target="_blank">BBC</a><br />
<a href="http://www.granma.cubaweb.cu/2013/05/28/cultura/artic03.html" target="_blank">Granma</a><br />
<a href="http://sapodeotropozo.com.ar/ltm/index.php/maria-magdalena-campos-pons/" target="_blank">Sapodeo Tropozo</a><br />
<a href="http://www.undo.net/it/mostra/160257" target="_blank">UNDO</a><br />
<a href="http://theculturetrip.tumblr.com/post/49936032615/classic-tales-of-distortion-cuba-at-the-venice" target="_blank">The Culture Trip</a><br />
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55th Venice Biennale<br />
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The Cuba Republic Pavilion, La Perversion de lo Clasico: Anarquia de los Relatos.<br />
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nleonardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16386242348218844464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9128072316693667039.post-83855709536925809922013-06-10T07:16:00.005-04:002013-06-11T03:15:29.031-04:0053+1=54+1=55.Letter of the Year<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i>53+1=54+1=55.Letter of the Year</i><br />
A multimedia sculptural installation<br />
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55th Venice Biennale<br />
Museum of Archeology, Piazza San Marco, Venice<br />
The Cuba Republic Pavilion, <i>La Perversion de lo Clasico: Anarquia de los Relatos.</i><br />
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June 1 - Nov 24, 2013<br />
Opening: May 31, 2013, 5:00 pm<br />
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<i>53+1=54+1=55.Letter of the Year</i> is a multimedia installation about home, migration, the necessity of finding and redefining the meaning of permanency and locality. Birdcages were used by emperors and common men to capture beauty and to dream of freedom. From Yoruba deities, to Leonardo da Vinci, to space travel today, men and women have always dreamed of flight as embodying a lightness of being.<br />
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The interviews in the birdcages document the reconstruction of a dialogue between Cuban residents and their family members who live abroad, and the transformative power of this exchange. The sonic environment is complemented by recordings of street criers, known as <i>pregoneros</i>, a reflection of the increased liberalization of small businesses that exists within a void of corporate control. The voices in the cages elude physical, political and cultural borders in contemporary society. The small videos featured inside the cages were conceived as a performative response to the historical weight of the exhibition site.<br />
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The installation is a construct of architecture and sound, old and new, evoking a country that is evolving. And, like birds, people keep singing their songs of hope and freedom.<br />
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Museuo Archeologico, Piazza San Marco, Venezia</div>
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Il progetto <i>53+1=54+1=55.Letter of the Year</i> consiste in un'installazione multimediale incentrata sui temi dell'appartenenza e la lontananza da ciò che chiamiamo "casa", sulla necessità di trovare e ridefinire il significato della permanenza e della propria posizione nel mondo. Le gabbie per uccelli furono usate da imperatori e da persone comuni, per catturare la bellezza e sognare la libertà, dalle divinità Yoruba a Leonardo Da Vinci, l'uomo ha sempre sognato di volare, il volo stesso rappresenta l'incarnazione della libertà totale dell'essere.</div>
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Nell'opera <i>53+1=54+1=55.Letter of the Year</i> le video-interviste all'interno delle gabbie documentano la ricostruzione del dialogo tra residenti cubani e i loro familiari all'estero, lasciando trasparire la forza che questo scambio rinnovato porta con sè. Nella componente sonora dell'opera sono rintracciabili le registrazioni dei <i>Pregoneros</i> venditori di strada, la cui presenza è un riflesso della crescente liberalizzazione dei piccoli mercati che esistono indipendentemente dal vuoto lasciato da grandi organizzazioni. Le voci registrate nei video ci parlano superando le barriere fisiche, politiche e culturali della società contemporanea. La componente video del progetto à stata concepita come una risposta performativa all'importanza storica del luogo espositivo.</div>
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L'installazione si compone quindi di elementi architettonici e sonori, alla ricerca di un proprio equilibrio tra storia e contemporaneità, evocando la vita di un paese in continua evoluzione. E, come uccelli liberi sulle loro ali, uomini e donne continuano a cantare la loro canzone di speranza e libertà.</div>
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nleonardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16386242348218844464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9128072316693667039.post-31964284817385626852013-06-10T06:59:00.000-04:002013-06-10T06:59:22.586-04:00Sguardi Sonori 2013<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I am honored to present work in the Cuban Pavilion of the Venice Biennale along with: Rui Chafes, Pedro Costa, Glenda León, María Magdalena Campos-Pons & Neil Leonard, Francesca Leone, H.H. Lim, Liudmila & Nelson, Hermann Nitsch, Sandra Ramos, Lázaro Saavedra, Tonel, Gilberto Zorio, Wang Du.<br />
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53+1=54+1=55/ Letter of the Year<br />
A multimedia video sound sculptural installation<br />
Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons<br />
Neil Leonard<br />
Museum of Archelogy Piazza de San Marco Venice<br />
Republic of Cuba Pavilion opening: May 31, 2013, 5:00 pm<br />
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Campos-Pons’ work is a site- specific installation Project 53+1=54+1=55/ Letter of the Year. Conceived in collaboration with musician and composer Neil Leonard, this multimedia installation consists of the massive structure of birdcages. The work presents a parallel to the grid of architecture and sound, old and new, always in motion, so typical of Cuban cities but also the cities around the world. The birdcages are used as metaphorical vessels to capture dreams. Inside of them there is an accumulation of fact data and fragmented video narratives played on numerous monitors, creating the mixture of sounds and images of urban Cuba, as the country evolves and the basic diversity of discourse changes in a dramatic and even theatrical way on the island, as well as in perceptions of the island from abroad.<br />
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For 53+1=54+1=55. Letter of the Year, Leonard utilizes the sound of Cuban street criers to create a sonic map constructed of voices from the island. This antiphonal map is suggestive of innovations carried out in Basilica San Marco, directly across from the Cuban pavilion, where 16th century composers began using site-specific placement of instruments and voice in their musical scores for the first time in Europe. Leonard investigates how in both present day Havana and 16th century Venice, antiphony emerged as a keynote sound that was intertwined with artistic and social transformation.<br />
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http://theculturetrip.com/caribbean/cuba/articles/classic-tales-of-distortion-cuba-at-the-venice-biennale/<br />
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http://blog.uprising-art.com/interview-exclusive-maria-magdalena-campos-pons-neil-leonard/?lang=en<br />
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http://www.artsobserver.com/2012/06/20/havana-biennial-exhibitions-at-wifredo-lam-center/nleonardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16386242348218844464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9128072316693667039.post-64145966756045063782013-05-07T15:42:00.005-04:002013-05-07T15:51:36.883-04:00La perversión de lo Clásico: anarquía de los relatos (The perversion of classics: The anarchy of narrations)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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After 27 years of working with Cuban artists in the US and on the island, I am honored to be invited to present work in the Cuban Pavilion of the Venice Biennale along with: Rui Chafes, Pedro Costa, Glenda León, María Magdalena Campos-Pons & Neil Leonard, Francesca Leone, H.H. Lim, Liudmila & Nelson, Hermann Nitsch, Sandra Ramos, Lázaro Saavedra, Tonel, Gilberto Zorio, Wang Du.<br />
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nleonardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16386242348218844464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9128072316693667039.post-8614776112470316582013-04-01T23:03:00.000-04:002013-04-01T23:03:05.632-04:00Concert with Jamaaladeen Tacuma and Co at Outpost 186<div style="text-align: left;">
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Jamaaladeen Tacuma electric bassist , composer and music producer joins Ornette Coleman’s Prime time alum, Berklee School and Boston based veterans of the Free Improvisational Music Scene for a session at Outpost 186. OUTPOST 186 is a new arts, media and performance space at 186 1/2 Hampshire Street in Inman Square, Cambridge. This summit is not to be missed!<br />
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JAMAALADEEN TACUMA - ELECTRIC BASS<br />
Dave Bryant - keyboards<br />
Neil Leonard - saxophones<br />
Tom Hall - saxophones<br />
Chris Bowman - drums<br />
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Cecil Taylor on Jamaaladeen Tacuma:<br />
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I'll tell you an interesting guy that I heard, was a man named James Carter. The night before, I spent with [members of Carter's current electric band, drummer] Calvin [Weston] and Jamaladeen [Tacuma, electric bassist]. And the next night I go into practice, and in walks James Carter. So I ask him, he talked about his control over his instrument and he went into [talking about] Eric Dolphy. And I asked him what he thought about Anthony Braxton's music, and he dropped his head and said, "What can you say?"<br />
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So I said to him, "One courtesy deserves another. I'll be there tonight when you play," and lemme tell you! I'm backstage, and that band starts, and Jamaladeen and Calvin... you know there's a difference between the blues and rhythm and blues, and man, when that band started, the intensity of the new rhythm and blues that they played! Carter is off stage, and when he walked in he stunned me with what he do! Know what he did? He made one harmonic sound, [imitating] eeerrrrrrrrgh, and then he walked off the fucking stage! And he comes back and makes another sound. Now, when he starts playing, when he was confronted, when he had to deal with that rhythm and blues shit, it wasn't about notes. And when James did this obbligato, man, it wasn't just technical, it was passionate! So James, at the end of that first number came and gave us his theme that demonstrated all of his control, and it was something.<br />
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This is where I almost cried. He starts a piece, alone, and he's got a sense of humor, and he knew he had the audience, and he started playing "Good Morning Heartache". Gross, I was almost reduced to tears by what he did. I thought of Charlie Gayle, and he gave us that, but he also gave us Don Byas, and then he played softly, and went into a bossa nova...<br />
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When he walked off, I'm standing there mesmerized, and he sees me and comes over and I say, "Hey, give me some more of that shit!" [laughs] I gotta hear that band again, cause man, the music is alive!<br />
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Cecil Taylor, 2001<br />
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CUBA PAVILION<br />
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La Perversión de lo clásico: Anarquía de los relatos (La Perversione della classicità: Anarchia delle narrazioni)<br />
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Liudmila and Nelson, Maria Magdalena Campos and Neil Leonard, Sandra Ramos, Glenda Leon, Lazaro Saavedra, Tonel, Hermann Nitsch, Gilberto Zorio, Wang Du, H.H.Lim, Pedro Costa, Rui Chafes, Francesca Leone<br />
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Commissioner: Miria Vicini. Curators: Jorge Fernandez Torres, Giacomo Zaza. Venue: Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Venezia, Palazzo Reale, Piazza San Marco 17<br />
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nleonardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16386242348218844464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9128072316693667039.post-91887242390327723942013-03-17T23:45:00.001-04:002013-03-17T23:54:02.374-04:00SOUNDSHAPES at Berklee College of Music<div style="text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">SOUNDSHAPES, a diverse collection of new multimedia pieces that seeks to bring the multimedia work to the chamber music idiom. Using a variety of mediums, approaches and techniques, music and visuals will be an integral part of each composition. Compositions by Ramon Castillo, Anthony Paul de Ritis, Kari Juusela, Dawn Kramer, Neil Leonard, John Mallia, Margaret McAllister, Stan Strickland. Composers will be performing their own work. Also performing: Peter Cokkinias, bass clarinet, Richard Boulanger, QuNeo, voice,Lin Zhantao, erhu. Wednesday, March 27th, 7:30pm, David Friend Recital Hall, Berklee College Music, 921 Bolyston St. Boston. Admission Free. </span></div>
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