Cheryl E. Leonard
Near the Bear
Near the Bear is Cheryl E. Leonard’s intimate Arctic meditation, interweaving field recordings and natural objects into five cinematic pieces that speak to both the wildness and vulnerability of Svalbard and Greenland’s landscapes.
Multiple Park
Cheryl E. Leonard builds and plays electroacoustic instruments made out of natural materials such as bones, driftwood, shells, seaweed, feathers, and stones. Jon Leidecker (aka 'Wobbly') responds to the sounds of her creations with synthesized animal…
Antarctica: Music from the Ice
A participant in the National Science Foundation’s Antarctic Artists and Writers Program, Leonard lived and worked at Palmer Research Station for five weeks in 2009. At this remote outpost on the Antarctic Peninsula, the composer made pristine field …
Schism
** Edition of 150 ** Life through the computer. We all have had to grapple with it over the past year, as we attempt to wring as much meaning, intimacy, experience and variety as we can from our shiny boxes of electronics. Concerts, plays, ballet, me…