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Sharing sounds with springboard
PAT SUTPHIN | DAILY EGYPTIAN
Audio artist Eric Leonardson tests his springboard instrument Saturday in the Christian H. Moe Theater in the Communications Building. The springboard is an instrument Leonardson built in 1994 made of several coils, a wooden plank, a couple of combs and other objects. The contact microphone under the plank enhances the vibrations of all the objects, which magnifies their sound. “I’ve been
interested in discovering new and unusual sound sources,� he said. Leonardson started experimenting with sound in the 1970s. “It was like a whole new vocabulary of sounds that I discovered,� he said. Leonardson performed on the second day of the Outside the Box music festival, an event that runs until Friday at various places around campus. See DAILYEGYPTIAN.COM for a multimedia piece about Leonardson
Arts bring professionals to students BRANDON COLEMAN Daily Egyptian Performance arts provide an opportunity for students to meet artists who provide a standard students can strive toward, Stephen Bell said. “The quality of these attractions are not only important for
audiences to enjoy them as entertainment, but the community of artists as well have an opportunity to see other artists at an extremely high level of quality ... which improves the overall arts in general,� said Bell, SIUC’s event services marketing consultant. Bryan Rives, director of SIUC event services, directs Southern
Lights Entertainment, a not-forprofit entertainment program that doesn’t receive money from the university, city or state. He said the program’s mission is to bring more culturally diverse performing arts events to not only SIUC but the southern Illinois region. The program holds performances such as the Tokyo
String Quartet, the Vienna Boys' Choir or the Alvin Ailey American Dance Company at Shryock Auditorium, SIU Arena and the Marion Cultural and Civic Center. Rives said performances usually generate enough money to cover the program’s expenses. He said the program has sold about 39,000 tickets for performing
arts events since July. Most performance art and cultural events such as the McLeod Summer Playhouse, a series of four productions staged at McLeod Theater, are put on by in-town organizations, Rives said. Please see PERFORMANCE | 4
Speech comm. professor was ‘inspirational,’ ‘generous’ JULIE SWENSON Daily Egyptian When a student in Jamie Huber’s class went on a tangent unrelated to class discussion, she said only Professor John T. Warren was able to make sense of the student’s points and relate them to the rest of the class.
“He did such a beautiful job of taking that (student's) 15-minute monologue and molding it back in a way that made sense with what was going on in class,� Huber said. “No one else really understood what this person was talking about, but the other students could grasp the way (Warren) was molding it
back into the original course topic. It was an inspiring moment for me.� Warren, a professor of speech communication, died Saturday of esophageal cancer. He was 36 years old and is survived by his wife, Gina, and his two children, ages 2 and 4. Warren graduated from SIUC’s speech
communication program in 2001, became an assistant professor at SIUC in 2006, and authored and co-authored several books about communication. Huber, a research assistant in speech communication from Hillsboro, said she first met Warren in 2007 and worked
with him extensively while she wrote her doctoral dissertation. Huber said Warren was extremely passionate about working with students and inspired her to teach in a similar style. Please see DEATH | 4