Good evening and welcome to Joe’s Pub 

Every Sound you will hear tonight, has been recorded since 1994 by me, Leo Heiblum, in different parts of the world

Tonight we will start with rain in a Sivananda Ashram in Kerala, India, back in 1998. And we will end with water drops falling on a kitchen sink in London in 1997

 You can follow this program if you want to know what sounds you are listening to and where they come from, otherwise I invite you to close your eyes and follow the sounds wherever they might take you

On top of these sounds, their melodies and their rhythms grow the compositions you will hear

Some of the pieces have a collaborator that integrates in different ways with the sounds

Since I was a little boy, I always found music everywhere. I remember listening to the engine of my mother’s car and finding incredible rhythms there. I’ve always thought that every sound that we hear can be made into music. Every sound that we hear can be heard as music. Can be felt, can be understood as music

If we learn to hear all sounds as “musical” or at least to have the potential to be used to make music, we might look at the world, we might listen to the world in a more loving way

A car passing by with a beautiful crescendo

A dog barking in the distance creating a unique melody with a rhythm impossible to transcribe

The sound of a car horn, the melody of a mosquito buzzing

Rocks falling in Cenotes or ice breaking down in a glacier

They can all be used to make music

With my work, I hope to organize sounds in a way that the next time you hear an ocean wave breaking, fire crackling, or a fly flying, you can enjoy the notes and rhythms they are creating

The sounds from the world can be used to create instruments as beautiful as any human made instrument. The melodies I’ve heard from bats, dogs fighting or a new born dog for example are haunting and beautiful. And they have a new sound, or a familiar old sound used in a different way. A way that invites us to hear the music created by this planet.

I hope you enjoy all these sounds…

Leonardo Heiblum