cheryl e. leonard - selected works

2009
ANTARCTICA: MUSIC FROM THE ICE (in development), compositions for natural materials and field recordings from the Antarctic Peninsula- Mills College, Oakland, CA; Djerassi Artists Salon, Monte Sereno, CA; Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA
TIDES: ESTUARY, music for shells, mud, sand, water, salt, feathers and more - a collaboration with visual artist Rebecca Haseltine - Western Sky Studios, Berkeley, CA; Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco; Illuminated Corridor at Middle Harbor Shoreline Park, Oakland, CA

2008
NÄCHTE, for water, sand, stones and field recordings- Mountain Computer Music Festival, University of Montana at Missoula
STRATA, for 16-20 performers playing natural-object instruments on two stages and throughout the venue - Art and Place Site Symposium, University of Montana at Missoula
ADRIAN, for out-of-tune piano
THE PURPOSE-DRIVEN LIFE, THE CIRCLE OF ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, soundtracks for two video works by Philip Bonner - Artist Studio at San Francisco Recycling and Disposal, Inc.

2007
HALINITY, a solo for salt, water, shells, glass and kelp - NWEAMO 2007 International Festival of Electro-Acoustic Music, Boulder, CO; Hunter's Point Shipyard Open Studios, San Francisco

MUSIC FOR ROCKS & WATER including UMI, JIKU, HIMO, ASHIMAME, SHINDOU, TENCHI and UZUMAKI, works for amplified rocks, and sand and water instruments - Exploratorium, San Francisco, Luggage Store Gallery, SF; Placespace Gallery, California College of Arts, SF; Music for People and Thingamajigs Festival, 21 Grand, Oakland; Improv:21 Series, San Francisco Performing Arts Library and Museum; Palais Ideal Festival, Chico, CA; 2+2 Series, 21 Grand, Oakland, CA

2006
SNOW, for viola, pinecone, shakuhachi
LINGERING, for viola and Japanese bowl gongs

2005
ZIRAN, for 3 players on natural materials (rocks, bones, feathers, water, ice, pinecones, grass, roots, and wood), a series of pieces inspired by Tang Dynasty Chinese wilderness poetry - Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA; 21 Grand, Oakland, CA; New Music on the Mountain, The Mountain Theater at Mt. Tamalpais; Field Effects 22 at 964 Natoma, San Francisco

2004
MOUNTAIN KATA, for soprano and stones - The Jazz House, Berkeley, CA; 21 Grand, Oakland, CA
HAN SHAN TREE, site-specific sculpture constructed in an oak tree - Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Woodside, CA
LIGHT PUT CAREFULLY, for 3 players on: glass, viola & glass, cello & glass - Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco; The Lab, San Francisco

2003
INSTRUMENTS IN TREES, for arboreal materials and strings - The Lab, San Francisco; 964 Natoma, San Francisco; Black Box Theater, Oakland, CA; Engine 27, NY, NY
REQUIEM (If Birds Could Speak They Couldn't Fly), solo piano
GOOD GUY BAD GUY, soundtrack for RK Corral's space-western film

2002
FABLE, for tape and boxspring mattress, music for a dance/theater performance by RK Corral - The San Francisco Butoh Festival, Cowell Theater
DONA NOBIS PACEM, for five strings and found metal percussion - Mills College, Oakland, CA

2001
GOOD GUY BAD GUY, composed and performed music for RK Corral’s interdisciplinary space western live performance- The Lab, San Francisco; Highways, Santa Monica; Sushi Gallery, San Diego

1999
THE UNDERWATER FLYING MACHINE, an interactive fountain/sculpture/cockpit - Day of Homemade Instruments at Lincoln Center, NY, NY
EENIE MACY AND THE 10 STEP PROGRAM, composed and performed music for RK Corral’s interdisciplinary performance – The Lab, San Francisco; Highways, Santa Monica; Seattle Fringe Festival
BAHINI, for solo cello or solo viola - New Music North, Thunder Bay, Ontario (performed in 2004)

1998
NAKED, for piano - Noe Valley Ministry, San Francisco, also performed at Mills College, Oakland (1999); Spruce Street Gallery, San Diego (1999); Greenwich House, NYC (1999); Goodspeed Hall, University of Chicago (1999)
SNORKEL, for 4 players of water and clarinets, and tape – The Lab, San Francisco
17,435 FEET, for viola
GRASS, for 10 or more players on blades of grass
SHOES, for 1 performer, 1 stranger, and a pair of shoes
BOXE, for amplified boxspring mattress and tape - Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, CA

1997
TOPOS, for four players on glass - The Lab, San Francisco, and The Yellow Room, Oakland, also performed at Beyond Baroque Literary Center, Venice, CA (1998), Big Sur Experimental Music Festival, Henry Miller Library (2000)
A HISTORY OF INSECTS, for erhu, viola, cello, bass, and four percussionists - Cell Performance Space, San Francisco

1996
DREAM ABOUT FLYING, for 14 accordions - Bay Area Awards Show, New Langton Arts, San Francisco; also performed at OPUS 415, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco (1998)
THE MAKING-SMASHING MACHINE: A LIVING VESSEL, a sculpture with interactive music, collaboration with Swedish sculptor Anna Hallin - Nexus Gallery, Berkeley; Works Gallery, San Jose; Mills College MFA Exhibition
UNTITLED PIANO PIECE BASED ON A GYPSY FOLK SONG, piano - National Association of Composers, Palo Alto Cultural Center
DANCE BEFORE YOU CALCIFY, for viola, tape and butoh movement, with video by George Robbins - Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States National Conference at Birmingham-Southern College, Birmingham, AL
NETHER, for Bb clarinet and tape processed foghorn sounds - Mills College

1995
PASS, for viola, cello and Japanese bowl gongs - Mills College
DEATH OF THE FUNDED ARTIST, a guerrilla processional for dead artist, pallbearers, mourners, and documenters - Financial District of San Francisco

1994
TRUCK, for processed truck sounds on tape and projected slides - Mills College