Hypnotic grooves, ethereal electronic sounds, celestial poetry and virtuoso guitar performances by Oren Fader.


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MilManeras1

Meditative, evocative electronic music created for a performance on Mount Vesuvius, Naples featuring samples from Jannis Kounellis' sculpture, local voices and soprano saxophone.

For Kounellis Excerpt3

For Kounellis Excerpt2

For Kounellis Excerpt1

MilManeras2

Neil Leonard & Stephen Vitiello at Experimental Intermedia Studio, October 11, 2014.

A new collaboration by Vitiello and Leonard that includes close up field recordings created at Mountain Lake Biological Station in Virginia - saxophone, field recordings, analog and digital processing. An audible partner to Vitiello's recent installation at American Contemporary Gallery which focuses only on the low frequencies (below the threshold of hearing) - artifacts from the recordings of the same birds 

Neil Leonard & Stephen Vitiello At EI

This track is from the album Marcel's Window and is available on CD Baby (http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/neilleonard2).

Alex in the Atrium

Sonance for the Precession is a site-specific quadraphonic sound installation created by Neil Leonard, Arthur Levitt, Jr. '52 Artist-in-Residence at Williams College. The electroacoustic composition, played for 30 minutes each day half an hour before sunset, explores ancient ideas connecting the precession, or movement, of the equinox with the harmonic series. The composition provides a context to reflect on how Hindu and Greek theories of astronomy and acoustics developed through intercultural exchange as far back as prehistoric times. The installation plays from the top of Hopkins Observatory, the oldest functioning observatory in the U.S. Sonance for the Precession is presented by Williams College Museum of Art.

Copyright Neil Leonard 2019

Sonance for the Procession (Excerpt)

Leonard is a composer, saxophonist and transdisciplinary artist. Leonard has collaborated with Joanne Brackeen, Richard Devine, Vijay Iyer, Phill Niblock, Rudresh Mahanthappa, Robin Rimbaud, Stephen Vitiello. His compositions/performances were featured by Carnegie Hall, Musicacustica (Beijing), Sharjah Art Foundation, Moscow Autumn, Museo Reina Sofia, Jazz Plaza International Festival (Havana). Leonard's performances and installations with artist Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons were presented by the 11 Havana Bienal, 49th and 55th Venice Biennale, Museum of Modern Art, Guggenheim Museum. Leonard score for Tony Oursler’s Relatives was featured by the Whitney Biennial. Leonard is the Artistic Director of Berklee College of Music's Interdisciplinary Arts Institute. In 2014-15 he was a Research Affiliate at M.I.T. Program in Art, Culture and Technology. 

"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."
Holland Cotter, New York Times, October 2013

Neil Leonard

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