Wilding - Gallery Reception

Cheryl E. Leonard presents a set of new instruments fashioned from objects found in nature as well as graphic scores meant for use with the instruments. Reception with light refreshments starts at 6pm followed by a talk and mini-performance at 7pm by Leonard.

April 18, 2024 6pm reception, 7pm talk/demo
free

Center for New Music
55 Taylor Street
San Francisco, CA 94102

https://centerfornewmusic.com/event/gallery-reception-cheryl-e-leonards-wilding/

Heglin/Leonard/Louchard + Euphotic

Improvised sets by two trios: Ron Heglin (trombone, voice), Cheryl Leonard (natural objects) and Ric Louchard (piano; and Euphotic (Bryan Day, Tom Djll, Cheryl Leonard).

April 2, 2024 8pm
donation

Tom's Place
3111 Deakin Street
Berkeley, CA

https://www.bayimproviser.com/EventView.aspx?e=20957

Cheryl E. Leonard, Aine E. Nakamura, Phipps Pt.

Solo sets by Cheryl E. Leonard, Aine E. Nakamura, and Phipps Pt.

March 15, 2024 8pm doors, 9pm music
$15 at the door

Beauty Supply Arts
Oakland, CA

Night of Ideas - Fault Lines: Outside the Lines

The Bay Area’s biggest celebration of creativity and critical thought is back at the San Francisco Public Library’s Main Branch! The fifth annual Night of Ideas brings together an array of local cultural organizations, leading thinkers, and artists to contemplate a future for city life that is more just, culturally vibrant, and sustainable. Join KQED, Asian Art Museum, the San Francisco Public Library and the Villa Albertine San Francisco, along with artistic curating partner Circuit Network, for an inspiring marathon of talks, performances, food, art and collective imagination. Cheryl E. Leonard performs a solo set in the Steve Silver Music Library promptly at 7:25pm as part of the Electronic Music Sound Garden. The other Sound Garden performers are bran(…)pos, Kaleidoscope Spelletich, Laetita Sonami, Jorge Bachmann, and Ava Koohbor. Register in advance for free entry: https://events.kqed.org/790/824

March 2, 2024 7pm - 1am, doors open 6:45pm
free, register at https://events.kqed.org/790/824

San Francisco Public Library
100 Larkin Street
San Francisco, CA 94102

https://nightofideas.org/san-francisco/

Cheryl E. Leonard: Wilderness Duets

Fridays with Faculty Event: Composer Cheryl E. Leonard discusses her work and performs pieces inspired by Antarctica, the Arctic, and California.

February 2, 2024 Noon - 1pm
free

270 Gardner Hall
School of Music
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT

https://events.utah.edu/arts/?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D172010420

Arts and Sciences in Dialog: Representing Antarctica & Climate Change

A conversation about Antarctica and climate change with Cheryl E. Leonard (Visiting Artist in Film & Media Arts), Kenneth M. Golden (Distinguished Professor of Mathematics), and Emelie Mahdavian (Assistant Professor of Film)

February 1, 2024 5:30 - 7pm
free

Arthur Emery Building, Room 320
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT

Thomas Carnacki & Lexagon

An evening of fine sounds in a stunning architectural environment. Thomas Carnacki (Cheryl E. Leonard, Gregory C. Hagan, and Gregory Scharpen) and Lexagon (Alexa Burrell), perform in the beautiful, intimate Central Works Theater. This will also serve as a record-release show for Carnacki’s “Cadavre Isolé” and “Rencontre Fortuite” albums.

January 25, 2024 7:30 doors, 8pm music
$15 -$20 sliding scale

Central Works Theater
The Berkeley City Club
2315 Durant Ave, Berkeley CA

https://thomascarnacki.bandcamp.com/merch/live-concert-thomas-carnacki-and-lexagon-25-january-2024-berkeley-city-club

Burke & Dimuzio, Æ, Euphotic, Gabbi Wen

Improvised and composed music by Dan Burke & Thomas Dimuzio, Æ (Audial Entanglement), Euphotic (Bryan Day, Tom Djll, and Cheryl E. Leonard), and Gabbi Wen.

January 11, 2024 8pm
$5-$15

Peacock Lounge
552 Haight Street
San Francisco, CA

https://www.facebook.com/events/728544498786892/

Ben Richter / The Oakland Reductionist Orchestra

In its West Coast premiere, composer-accordionist Ben Richter’s just-intonation accordion solo Laramidia creates an alien tonal landscape alternating among timbral fluctuations, melody and drone, and gradual resolution of shimmering, pulsing microtonal intervals. The concert also features the Oakland Reductionist Orchestra, a supergroup of local musicians with a predilection for lowercase/fricative acoustic improvisation that often sounds more electronic than acoustic. Performers: Chris Cooper, Kevin Corcoran, Tom Djll, Sarah Grace Graves, Diane Grubbe, Ron Heglin, Matt Ingalls, Brendan Lai-Tong, Cheryl E. Leonard, Kevin CK Lo, Lisa Mezzacappa, Cody Putman, Danishta Rivero, Kanoko Nishi-Smith.

December 17, 2023 7pm
$10 -$25

Mosswood Chapel
3630 Telegraph Avenue
Oakland, CA

http://sfsound.org/series/

Mills After Mills: Three Days of Crazy Love

This three-day festival gathers a broad cross-section of composers associated with the legendary and now defunct Mills College Music Department for a series of performances driven by questions around legacy, institutional memory, and creative regeneration. Participating artists have been directed towards recordings from the 7000+ item audio archive at the Center for Contemporary Music at Mills, and invited to create new works inspired by their finds and/or create new realizations of these historic compositions.

Thursday’s lineup: House Band (Sally Decker, Brendan Glasson, Briana Marela, Michelle Moeller, Matt Robidoux, Mitch Stahlmann); Junior Mint Prince (Lula Asplund, Naomi Harrison-Clay); Cheryl E. Leonard; John Bischoff and James Fei.

November 9, 2023 8 doors/ 8:30 music
$15 (discounted or free for members)

The Lab
2948 16th Street
San Francisco, CA 94103

https://www.thelab.org/projects/2023/11/9/mills-after-mills-three-days-of-crazy-love

How to Destroy the Universe - Part 8

Since 2003, How to Destroy the Universe has explored transgressive and transformative music/art/culture and counter-culture via Weirdness + Post Punk + Dark Wave + Experimental + Noise.

Saturday October 14: 5pm Videos; 7pm Tension Span (from Neurosis, Christ on Parade; 8pm Moeser (from Savage Republic, The Molecules, Dan Plonsey); 9pm F-SPACE; 10pm Cheryl Leonard + Thomas Dimuzio; 11pm Poster Session Discussion + DJ/VJ.

October 14, 2023 5pm - 11pm
$15 - $40, NOTAFLOF

Omni Commons
4799 Shattuck Ave.
Oakland, CA

https://mobilization.com/destroy8.shtml

Leila Abdul-Rauf / Thomas Carnacki / To End It All (w/ Vanessa Skantze) / M. Sauder

Music and Soundscapes by Leila Abdul-Rauf, Thomas Carnacki (Gregory Hagen, Cheryl E. Leonard, Gregory Scharpen), To End It All (w/ Vanessa Skantze), and M. Sauder.

September 23, 2023 8pm
$16

Teatro de la Psychomachia
1534 1st Ave S
Seattle, WA

https://toenditall.bandcamp.com/merch/9-23-23-seattle-leila-abdul-rauf-thomas-carnacki-to-end-it-all-vanessa-skantze-m-sauder-geist-tse

Leila Abdul-Rauf / Thomas Carnacki / irr. app. (ext.) / The Garbage Man

Music and soundscapes from Leila Abdul-Rauf, Thomas Carnacki (Gregory Hagan, Cheryl E. Leonard, Gregory Scharpen), irr. app. (ext.), and The Garbage Man (DJ set).

September 22, 2023 7pm

Xhurch
4550 NE 20th Ave
Portland, OR

https://xhurch.net/upcoming.html

Leila Abdul-Rauf / Thomas Carnacki / Latona Ogola / To End it All (w/ Vanessa Skantze)

Transcendental soundscapes and musical imagery by groundbreaking artists from the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. Sets by Leila Abdul-Rauf, Thomas Carnacki (Gregory Hagan, Cheryl E. Leonard, Gregory Scharpen), Latona Ogola, and To End it All (w/ Vanessa Skantze).

September 21, 2023 8 pm
$10

Cryptatropa Bar
421 4th Ave E
Olympia, WA

https://toenditall.bandcamp.com/merch/tix-9-21-23-olympia-latona-odola-leila-abdul-rauf-thomas-carnacki-to-end-it-all-vanessa-skantze

Cheryl E. Leonard + Wobbly / Dokuro

In celebration of their new album, “Multiple Park,” Cheryl E. Leonard and Jon Leidecker (aka ‘Wobbly’) will conjure a set of impossible locations while exploring the space between city life and utter wilderness. Dokuro (Agnes Szelag and The Norman Conquest) perform a site-specific set including projected live drawing by Toby West.

September 10, 2023 7pm
$10-25 sliding scale

Mosswood Chapel
3630 Telegraph Avenue
(enter 2nd door on 37th St)
Oakland, CA

http://sfsound.org/series/

Labor Day Skronkathon

An all-day extravaganza of adventurous music featuring some of the Bay Area’s best creative musicians. Eighteen acts utilize both rooms of the Mosswood Chapel. Cheryl Leonard plays in the Oakland Reductionist Orchestra at 5:45pm.

September 4, 2023 1-9pm
$10 -25 donation

Mosswood Chapel
3630 Telegraph Avenue,
(enter 2nd door on 37th St)
Oakland, CA

http://sfsound.org/series/

Headlands Center for the Arts: Summer Open House

Open House provides a once-a-season opportunity to roam the various buildings of Headlands Center for the Arts, meet current artists, view works in progress, and attend screenings, performances, and readings. Cheryl E. Leonard will host a “Listening Reserve” in her studio, featuring examples of her recent compositions and field recordings, as well as moments of live improvisation.

August 20, 2023 12-5pm
free

Headlands Center for the Arts
944 Simmonds Road
Sausalito, CA 94965

https://www.headlands.org/event/summer-open-house-2023/

Psychobotanikon: Sonic Nature Revealed

Cheryl E. Leonard performs recent works inspired by Norway’s Hardangerfjord and the California coastline. Pet the Tiger performs “Psychobotony.” This iteration of Pet the Tiger will be David Samas, Kanoko Nishi-smith, and Kevin Corcoran (field recordings), with Katarina Countiss (live projection) and Andrew Rose with Dominique Nigro (movement).

August 12, 2023 7:30pm
$30 advance/$40 door

New Mission Yoga
2415 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA

https://momence.com/David-Samas/Psychobotanikon%3A-Sonic-Nature-Revealed/88024443

Murmuration #4 - Performing Place

Listening, making, composing, interacting – a week exploring the possibilities of located sound. Our theme is performing place, considering how we interact with environments as material, memory, and in our need for a more symbiotic understanding of our impact on them. Curated by Jez Riley French and Phoebe Riley Law. Guest artists: Jenny Berger Myhre, Bethan Kellough, and Felicity Mangan. Plus a performance by Cheryl E. Leonard. (Places on the trip are already fully reserved.)

 June 10-16

Private Gathering
Glenshee, Scotland

https://jezrileyfrench.co.uk/murmuration-2023

Kunstnarhuset Messen Open Studios

Open studios with artists Cheryl E. Leonard (USA), Susanne Lund Pangrazio (Sweden), Hans Pulles (Netherlands/Norway), and Reto Steiner (Switzerland).

May 25, 2023 7-9pm
free

Kunstnarhuset Messen
Ålvikvegen 1065
Ålvik, Norway

https://www.khmessen.no

Listening at the Ends of the Earth - Lecture and Performance

Leonard will discuss working with sound in the polar regions, as well as close to her home in California. She’ll explain her compositional process, and describe field recording successes and defeats, instrument-building eureka moments, how to play music on penguin bones, and strategies for notating sounds from limpet shells and fizzy icebergs. Leonard’s performance will include selections from her latest album, Antarctica: Music from the Ice, together with pieces developed from fieldwork in Svalbard and Golden Gate National Recreation Area.

April 13, 2023 5:00-6:00
free, RSVP at https://apply.soc.northwestern.edu/register/sai-cherylleonard-2023

Northwestern Soundstage
Northwestern University
1877 Campus Drive, Room 105
Evanston, IL 60208

https://apply.soc.northwestern.edu/register/sai-cherylleonard-2023

Heglin/Leonard/Louchard at Nebraska Mondays

Nebraska Mondays presents an evening of experimental improvisations by Ron Heglin (voice, trombone), Cheryl E. Leonard (natural-object instruments), and Ric Louchard (piano).

April 10, 2023 7:30pm
$10

Luna's Cafe & Juice Bar
1414 16th Street
Sacramento, CA 95814

https://www.lunascafe.com/calendar.html

Full: Radical Divination

Composer and visual artist Gino Robair presents Radical Divination, his “opera of augury through papermaking.” During this event, papermakers create—using performative, game-based structures—a score for an operatic work. That score then serves as a platform for interpretation by an ensemble of musicians and dancers. Musicians include Krys Bobrowski, Kyle Bruckmann, Tom Djll, Cheryl E. Leonard, John Shiurba, and Karen Stackpole.

April 5, 2023 7:30pm
included in museum admission ($14 general / $12 students, disabled, 65+ / Free for members; UC Berkeley students, faculty, staff; 18 and under)

BAMPFA
2155 Center Street
Berkeley, CA

https://bampfa.org/event/full-radical-divination

Cheryl Leonard, Foot SOS, Risa, The Human Deselection & Realization Nature Group

An evening of experimental sound from Cheryl E. Leonard, Foot SOS, Risa, and The Human Deselection & Realization Nature Group. More details coming soon.

March 9, 2023 8pm
$5-$15 sliding scale

Peacock Lounge
552 Haight Street
San Francisco, CA

https://fb.me/e/3fjzf44pB

Vinny Golia's Heptacontakaiheptagon Ensemble

Outsound Presents Vinny Golia celebrating 77 years with a special 77 piece large ensemble (Heptacontakaiheptagon) made up of some of the most adventurous musicians from the Bay Area and beyond. The award-winning composer and multi-instrumentalist will debut a new piece created especially for this event.

March 5, 2023 7pm
$10-$40 sliding scale

Berkeley Finnish Hall
1970 Chestnut Street
Berkeley, CA

https://fb.me/e/2hsAfIQ2T

Sustain - Playground Ensemble

The Playground Ensemble presents an evening of music centered around the environment, works that point to the fragility and resilience of Earth and of ourselves. Here are beautiful and resonant compositions using bones from Antarctica as instruments; a work that calls out the plight of deforestation; a work connecting our region’s wind patterns to drum beats. This event is a partnership with the National Center for Atmospheric Research, including pairing local composer Sarah Whitnah and a climatologist for a world premiere. Cheryl Leonard’s Antarctic work, “Fluxes,” will be performed together with video by Oona Stern.

February 10, 2023 6-8pm

Saturn Auditorium
Denver Botanic Gardens
1007 York Street
Denver, CO, 80206

https://www.playgroundensemble.org/calendar/sustain

Post-Score Exhibition

Exhibition of graphic and text event scores from over 30 artists across media, from music and performance to poetry and painting. Artists created new event scores on index cards and sent them as mail art through the USPS. Included work ranges from text instructions in the tradition of Pauline Oliveros’s Sonic Meditations, to mutated traditional musical notation, to drawings and performance texts, showcasing the breadth of the form. The exhibition includes Cheryl E. Leonard’s graphic/text score “Ánemos.”

 Jan 13 - Feb 19, 2023
free

CO-OPt Research + Projects
4202 Boston Ave
Lubbock, TX

https://www.co-opt.art/postscore

San Francisco Tape Music Festival

America’s only festival devoted to the performance of audio works projected in three-dimensional space, The San Francisco Tape Music Festival features four distinct concerts of classic audio art and new fixed media compositions by 46 local and international composers. Composers shape the sound live over a pristine surround system (24 high-end loudspeakers) with the audience seated in complete darkness. Friday night’s concert includes “Multiple Park” by Cheryl E. Leonard and Jon Leidecker.

January 13, 2023 - 8:30 pm
$20 general, $10 balcony, $50 festival pass

Victoria Theatre
2961 16th Street
San Francisco 94110

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/san-francisco-tape-music-festival-2023-tickets-475963267947

Psychobotanikon

Thomas Dimuzio, Cheryl E. Leonard, and David Samas perform three sets of improvised music with low dose tea service. New sounds creating new neurons.

Doors at 7, tea at at 7:30. No admittance after 7:45. Music 8-10:30.

December 15, 2022 - 7pm
$30

Turquoise Yantra Grotto
32 Turquoise Way
San Francisco, CA 94131

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/psychobotanikon-tickets-482807900427

Surround Salon Series #8

A monthly informal show in which composers present their works through the 8-channel surround system, provided by Meyer Sound. Works are mixed from the center of the space and the audience is free to choose their own listening location and move around within the space. This iteration features music by Danishta Rivero Castro, Nathan Corder, and Cheryl E. Leonard’s Antarctic piece, Meltwater.

November 6, 2022 4pm
$15 general, $10 members and students

Center for New Music

55 Taylor Street

San Francisco, CA 94102

https://centerfornewmusic.com/

LSG Creative Music Series: Euphotic, Ernesto Diaz-Infante

8pm: Euphotic – Bryan Day (invented instruments), Tom Djll (trumpet, electronics) and Cheryl E. Leonard (natural objects) improvise intersteller expeditions
9pm: Ernesto Diaz-Infante – solo electric guitar

October 19, 2022 8pm
$10-25 sliding scale (no one turned away for lack of funds), 
masks recommended

Luggage Store Gallery

1007 Market Street

San Francisco, CA 94103

https://www.bayimproviser.com/venue/7/luggage-store-creative-music-series

Found Sound Workshop

Explore techniques for making and recording unsual sounds in this hands-on workshop. Learn about microphones and conventional and unconventional ways to use them. Uncover unique sounds from found objects, and investigate approaches to playing objects/materials in situ and assembling objects into “instruments.” Leonard will also share field recording tips and techniques. All skill levels welcome!

October 16, 2022 1-5pm
$45 (discount for Shapeshifters members)

Shapeshifters Cinema
567 5th Street
Oakland, CA 94607

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/found-sound-workshop-with-cheryl-e-leonard-tickets-409611106847

Antarctica: Music from the Ice - album release event

An evening of listening to Antarctica in celebration of Cheryl E. Leonard’s latest album, Antarctica: Music from the Ice. Leonard will give a short slideshow about the project, share field recordings from Antarctica (including previously-unreleased ones), and perform a solo set of compositions from the album. Stick around after the music for informal Q & A and an Antarctic instrument petting zoo.

October 7, 2022 8pm
$10-$25

Shapeshifters Cinema
567 5th Street
Oakland, CA 94607

http://www.shapeshifterscinema.com/#cinema

Mosswood Sound Series: Thomas Carnacki and Grale

Thomas Carnacki (Cheryl E. Leonard and Gregory Scharpen), and Grale (Gregory Hagan and Dale Sophiea) concoct unsettling soundscapes for the discriminating ear.

Masks and vaccination required for entry. Performers may be unmasked.

September 23, 2022 8pm
$10-$25

Mosswood Chapel
3630 Telegraph (enter 2nd door on 37th Street)
Oakland, CA

http://www.sfsound.org/series

Cheryl E. Leonard: Listening at the Ocean's Edge

Sounds played live on sand, shells, stones, and seaweed mix with recordings from California’s coastline in a musical performance by Cheryl E. Leonard. Inspired by our state’s rapidly-changing beaches, estuaries, and coastal cliffs, Leonard explores how land and sea interface.

August 20, 2022 2pm
Outdoors and Free!

San Francisco Public Library
Richmond District Branch
351 9th Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94118