Cantor Arts Center presents our Spring season of Forms & Frequencies, a Thursday night music series featuring musicians and sound artists from the Bay Area and beyond, with special evening hours for audiences to visit exhibitions on view.

Join us on Thursday, March 20, at Cantor Arts Center for a performance by Cheryl E. Leonard. Leonard builds unique sculptural instruments with natural materials like stones, wood, water, ice, shells, and bones, using microphones to uncover their micro-aural worlds. Leonard’s work amplifies subtle textures and intricate sounds of quiet phenomena as a way to reflect on natural processes and environmental issues such as climate change and species extinction. 

This series is programmed in conjunction with Second Nature: Photography in the Age of the Anthropocene, an exhibition featuring forty-four photo-based artists across the globe who use a variety of artistic methods to explore the complexities of the this geological time of vanishing ice, rising waters, increased resource extraction, as well as the painful legacies of colonialism, forced climate migration, and socio-environmental trauma. 

Whether you’re a fan of live music, a lover of art, or simply looking for a unique night out, Forms & Frequencies promises an unforgettable experience that resonates with all your senses.  

All public programs at the Cantor Arts Center are always free! Space for this program is limited; advance registration is recommended. 

About the Artist

Cheryl E. Leonard is a San Francisco-based composer, performer, field recordist, and instrument builder. Her works investigate natural sites and ecosystems, and human relationships with them. She uses microphones and amplification to explore sonic intricacies, highlighting unique voices and soundscapes while addressing environmental issues. Her projects often feature sculptural natural-object instruments and field recordings from remote locales. Leonard’s artistic research has taken her to a wide range of wilderness areas, including Antarctica and the Arctic. Her works have been presented in concerts and art exhibitions in the Americas, Europe, Japan, and Australasia. Grants awarded include the Antarctic Artists and Writers Program, American Music Center, American Composers Forum, and ASCAP. Commissions include works for SFMOMA, Kronos Quartet, Small Press Traffic, and Funsch Dance. Leonard's recordings are available on Other Minds, mappa, Gilgongo, and numerous other labels. She frequently collaborates with visual artists, choreographers, writers, scientists, and other musicians. www.allwaysnorth.com

Parking

Free visitor parking is available along Lomita Drive as well as on the first floor of the Roth Way Garage Structure, located at the corner of Campus Drive West and Roth Way at 345 Campus Drive, Stanford, CA 94305. From the Palo Alto Caltrain station, the Cantor Arts Center is about a 20-minute walk or there the free Marguerite shuttle will bring you to campus via the Y or X lines.

Disability parking is located along Lomita Drive near the main entrance of the Cantor Arts Center. Additional disability parking is located on Museum Way and in Parking Structure 1 (Roth Way & Campus Drive). Please click here to view the disability parking and access points.

Accessibility Information or Requests

Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University is committed to ensuring our programs are accessible to everyone. To request access information and/or accommodations for this event, please complete this form at least one week prior to the event: museum.stanford.edu/access. 

For questions, please contact disability.access@stanford.edu or Kwang-Mi Ro, kwangmi8@stanford.edu, (650) 723-3469.