Leonard will present a new work for small ensemble in which natural and found materials are cultivated as sound sources.

Musique concrète is a process by which naturally occurring sounds are gathered, then severed from their origins through manifold manipulations. Based in Montreal, Francis Dhomont is a prodigious interpreter of this form of electroacoustic music which, for all its altered abstraction, emerges as a highly visual experience. Director Uli Aumüller takes full advantage of this quality in his elegant and wry portrait of Dhomont and his exacting creative process. Here, Dhomont is in the midst of a new composition, Un Autre Printemps, a reinvention of Vivaldi's Spring. He speaks with engaging lucidity of his search for the “inner beauty of a sound,” often in conversation with fellow composer Paul Lansky. The latter's compositions Night Traffic, Table's Clear, and Idle Chatter Junior are richly visualized by artist Robert Darroll. This is where My Cinema for the Ears distinguishes itself-in its own search for a musique concrète visuelle. (59 mins, DVD, From Bridge Records)

The program includes two short works: Eder Santos's Bolero (Brazil, 1987), in which Brazil's Uakti reinterprets Ravel's composition using an array of instruments made from wood, rubber, stone, glass, metal, plastic tubes, and calabash (6:49 mins, 3/4” video, From Electronic Arts Intermix); and Annie Gosfield's Shoot the Player Piano (U.S., 1999), a rollicking piece for an imaginary orchestra of aged and unusual mechanical devices (6:28 mins, Mini-DV, From the artist).