Avant-garde trombonist based in Brooklyn, but found all over the world. Check back for new tracks often, could be anything from Bach to weird improv.

Hello, I am a composer working with acoustic instruments, analog and digital electronics, and field recordings, as well as an educator and a freelance sound designer and live audio engineer based in Berlin.

In my compositional work, I explore the idea of sound as an acoustic phenomenon that, as artistic material, offers the unique characteristic of being fundamentally spectral: although sound is emitted by vibrating entities in physical space, the absence of a bodily materiality by the time it is perceived by the listener lends itself to an experience determined by what is not physically and tangibly present. With this as a point of departure, I have been building a musical language that is defined by a narrative around what is not actually there, an aesthetics of absence and the illusion of presence, an aural phantasmagoria of sorts.

In May 2023 I received my Ph.D. in music composition from Harvard University, where I studied with Chaya Czernowin and Hans Tutschku. I also have a Bachelor of Music degree in composition from McGill University, and a masters degree in composition and electronic music from the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden, where I studied with Mark Andre and Franz Martin Olbrisch. I am currently employed as Lecturer in New Media and Digital Technologies for Music at the Hybrid Music Lab of the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden.

composer, noise generator 

https://www.kelleysheehan.com/

David Leon is a Cuban-American saxophonist, woodwinds player, and composer/improviser living in Brooklyn, New York. 

His diverse musical output is pervaded by the exploration of nuance: in timbre by creatively manipulating saxophone technique, in pitch by tampering with equal temperament and employing microtonality, and in texture possibility through orchestration and improvisation. As the winner of the 2017 ASCAP Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composer’s Award, David debuted a new quartet at the Newport Jazz Festival in August of that year. In November 2018, he performed alongside pianist Kris Davis as part of The Jazz Gallery’s Mentoring Series. 

David plans to release his debut record as a leader Aire De Agua in Fall 2021. His other solo endeavors include the Current Obsession series - which documents improvisations with current collaborators, David Leon Trio; the co-led project Sound Underground, and various improvised configurations. An active sideperson, David has collaborated with artists including Ingrid Laubrock, Nick Dunston, Kris Davis, Justin Vernon, Brian Lynch, Adam O’Farrill, Brandon Seabrook, Kate Gentile, Chris Pitsiokos, Arturo O’Farrill, Tomas Fujiwara, Lesley Mok, Michael Formanek, Matt Mitchell, Henry Fraser, Michael Attias, Tom Rainey, and others. 

Born and raised in Miami, Florida, David discovered a love for music in his uncle's collection of global percussion instruments. After starting formal instruction on piano he found the saxophone by chance, and was accepted into the prestigious New World School of the Arts high school to study jazz. He quickly garnered national recognition from the National YoungArts Foundation, the GRAMMY Foundation, the ASCAP Foundation, Jazz at Lincoln Center and the Jazz Band of America. His trio #bicmnrosfulmfrenh was recognized as the Best Small Ensemble by Downbeat Magazine’s Student Music Awards in 2016.

David graduated with a Bachelor of Music from the University of Miami’s Frost School of Music, as a member of the cross-genre Henry Mancini Institute. In addition, David is a two-time alumni of the Kennedy Center's Betty Carter Jazz Ahead Program and the Banff Centre in Canada. He has been mentored by Terence Blanchard, Jason Moran, Kris Davis, and Ira Sullivan.

Composer, poet, drummer, songwriter+vocalist, producer, and multi-instrumentalist. 

This page is mainly for concert music and improvised/jazz work. My solo/studio/"song project" releases can be found in more codified form on my Bandcamp, linked below.

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