Cheryl E. Leonard & Wobbly

Multiple Park

1 - Bowed Spine
2 - Icicle Tracking
3 - Ostrasidian
4 - Multiple Park

Instrument design & field recordings by Cheryl E. Leonard
Monitress & electronics by Jon Leidecker
instrumental performances, editing and composition by
Cheryl E. Leonard & Jon Leidecker

1: Instruments: Spiny, Obsidian Mobile, pine needle swishers, bamboo skewers
2: Instruments: dripping homemade icicles, scientific glassware beakers, petrie dishes floating in water), water. Field Recordings: melting floating Yosemite ice & streams
3: Instruments: rocks, shell necklace, fish vertebrae, Obsidian Mobile, Shell Mobile, Ostrea, metal chopsticks, marbles
4: Instruments: Limpet Shell Spine, Penguin Vertebrae Mobile, Obsidian Mobile, Petrified Wood Mobile, Kelp Flute, rocks, Baby Driftwood Pipe Organ, Boa, Quill Mobile, Crabclaw Mobile. Field recordings and in situ improvisations with instruments: Golden Gate Park (ambulance sirens, construction noises, Red-tailed hawks), Marin Headlands (ocean surf, tilted Octopus Bunker metal door), Lassen Volcanic National Park (wind in mule's ears, grasshoppers, Clark's nutcrackers + other small birds, streamlets near Soda Lake, flies, bees)

1-3 Recorded live on 'Over The Edge', KPFA FM Studios, Berkeley, 26 May 2016 (2) & 8 August 2019 (1, 3)
4 Recorded outdoors in multiple parks - manmade, settled, and wild - through the latter half of 2020

Album Layout by John Wiese

(c)(p) 2021 Cheryl E. Leonard and Wobbly
Released May 2023 on Gilgongo Records, GGGR-123






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