LEONARD & WOBBLY, CHERYL E. - Multiple Park

"Cheryl E. Leonard builds and plays electroacoustic instruments made out of natural materials such as bones, driftwood, shells, seaweed, feathers, and stones. Jon Leidecker (aka 'Wobbly') responds to the sounds of her creations with synthesized animal voices driven by machine listening. The inaugural collaboration of these two veterans of the San Francisco Bay Area electronic music scene can be heard on the album Multiple Park, a collection of works assembled from both studio and outdoor performances, radio broadcasts and field recordings, as well as outright hallucinations -- an album which evokes an abstract yet literal world that exists in the space between city life and utter wilderness. Material for the album's centerpiece was recorded in three California parks, ranging from deeply urban to abandoned to entirely wild. The result is one 'Multiple Park,' filled with noises simultaneously abstract yet bound to the physical events that generated them. Riding a line between a secret hi