bio Short Bio Jon Leidecker (aka Wobbly) is a human in the loop, making sounds with people and machines that listen -- using recordings, feedback and automation, making music which can only ever be heard in real time. People and technology are inseperable, and the music the former makes using the latter asks us exactly which things can be ethically and morally automated. The goal is to produce sounds that seem to be asking questions, and you don't want to waste your time with music that's lying to you. A long and winding list of collaborators blurs the line between solo and group work -- current touring projects include Negativland, the Thurston Moore Group, Jennifer Walshe, Zoh Amba, and Cheryl E. Leonard. Talks on the secret histories of electronic music have been presented at Oxford, Stanford, Mills, UC Berkeley and Peabody, and his nine hour overview of sampling and collage, 'Variations', is hosted online by the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art. Radio remains his home medium, with Negativland's Over The Edge livemix broadcast continuing to emerge out of KPFA FM, Berkeley. Long Bio Jon Leidecker has pursued the medium of electronic music since the mid-1980's, emphasizing live performance and collaboration. Early works utilized sonic collage & musical appropriation, improvising with recorded sounds to produce a form of metamusic where the pleasure might come from finding just the right unanswerable questions about what might happen next. Recent work investigates the early electronic music's use of feedback & self-playing instruments to frame the medium as a site for questions about the role of automation and technology in society: what kinds of human labor can be safely and productively given over to machines. These questions evolved in tandem with his day job as a Test Engineer from 1998 to 2016, working in succession for Orban, Digidesign and Dolby on various digital products and platforms for musicians, including Pro Tools HD, the VENUE live sound console, and Dolby Atmos. In 2016 he left corporate work to pursue music full time. In 2008, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona commissioned the podcast 'Variations', a nine hour tour through the history of recorded collage & the practice of 'sampling' through the 20th Century, tracing the slowly evolving definition of 'composition' as the medium used to store 'finished' works migrated from written notation to the increasingly manipulable medium of sound recording. Currently touring and recording with Negativland and the Thurston Moore Group, other live and studio collaborators include Jennifer Walshe, Cheryl E. Leonard, Zoh Amba, Zeena Parkins, Dieter Moebius & Tim Story, People Like Us, Matmos, Laetitia Sonami, Fred Frith's Gravity Band, Thomas Dimuzio, Porest, Tim Perkis & Xopher Davidson, Tania Chen, SUE-C, John Oswald, Carl Stone, Otomo Yoshihide, Blevin Blectum & Jay Lesser (Sagan), Kevin Blechdom, the Evolution Control Committee, Phipps Pt., Andrea Williams, Mitchell Brown, Big City Orchestra, Hrvatski & Huun-Huur-Tu. Other groups include Amen Seat (a duo with Maryclare Brzytwa), The Freddy McGuire Show, Chopping Channel, Sideless, Animals & Giraffes and Extra Soft Earthquakes. In 2015 he inherited the radio program Over The Edge, which continues to broadcast weekly from KPFA FM in Berkeley. High Resolution Splinter Photo by Joe Gerhardt Monitress Antenna 2020 Monitress Library 2020