Neil Leonard (sound artist)

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Neil Leonard (* 1959 in Cambridge ) is an American sound artist , saxophonist and composer .

life and work

After Neil Leonard started his artistic activity as an illustrator and later continued as a ceramicist , he switched to jazz performances as a saxophonist before moving on to work in the field of sound art. Neil Leonard has been working with María Magdalena Campos-Pons since 1988 . From 2014 to 2015, Neil Leonard taught as visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . In 2016 the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation invited him as Artist in Residence , and in the same year he received the Fulbright Specialist Award . Leonard is the Artistic Director and Professor at Berklee College of Music .

On his trip to Cuba, Neil Leonard collected sounds using field recording and shot video material for his multimedia installation Pan Verdadero / True Bread , which was exhibited at the 2016 Cyber ​​Arts Festival in Boston. Leonard composed music for Tony Oursler and Constance DeJong for an exhibition at the Whitney Biennial and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston .

He created sound for MoMA , the Whitney Museum of American Art , as well as The Kitchen in New York, the Seattle Art Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston . His compositions have been performed in Carnegie Hall , the Museo Reina Sofía , the Banff Festival for the Arts and the International Computer Music Convention , as well as numerous other venues. In 2013 Leonard took part in the 55th Venice Biennale and in 2017 in documenta 14 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Berklee Neil Leonard: Interdisciplinary Curiosity in Motion , accessed on June 23, 2019. (English)
  2. ↑ Rauschenberg Foundation Past Residents , accessed on June 26, 2019. (English)
  3. ↑ Boston Cyber ​​Arts Pan Verdadero (True Bread) by Neil Leonard, Jan. 16 - Feb. 28, 2016 , accessed June 23, 2019. (English)
  4. ↑ art daily Exhibition by María Magdalena Campos-Pons and Neil Leonard opens at Stephan Stoyanov Gallery , accessed on June 23, 2019.
  5. ↑ documenta 14, daybook María Magdalena Campos-Pons and Neil Leonard , accessed on June 23, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Leonard, Neil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American sound artist, saxophonist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Cambridge