Bandleader, Composer, Improviser -
Sonic Architect
STLR Entertainment, a unique “Artists Cooperative” entertainment service provider.
Photo by Sheila Bosco (9 JAN 2020, Outsound Presents)
I hope you are doing well today/this week and I have 2 new music releases:


—David
UPCOMING...
  • 13 AUG, 2023: David Leikam (solo electric bass and/or Moog synth set) at μHausen 2023, Boulder Creek, Santa Cruz, California, USA
  • 24 AUG, 2023: Resident Electronic Music: David Leikam & more at Noisebridge, San Francisco, California, USA​​ & ONLINE
  • 4 SEP, 2023: David Leikam (Moog synthesizer) at Skronkathon 2023, Oakland, California, USA
  • 28 SEP, 2023: Resident Electronic Music: David Leikam & more at Noisebridge, San Francisco, California, USA​​ & ONLINE
  • 26 OCT, 2023: Resident Electronic Music: David Leikam & more at Noisebridge, San Francisco, California, USA​​ & ONLINE
  • 23 NOV, 2023: Resident Electronic Music: David Leikam & more at Noisebridge, San Francisco, California, USA​​ & ONLINE
  • 28 DEC, 2023: Resident Electronic Music: David Leikam & more at Noisebridge, San Francisco, California, USA​​ & ONLINE
Thank you to those who have been supporting my music recently, and new releases coming this week/month/year... Bandcamp.
A Passageway into Morning - 53:30: Rediscovered from the ether of radio, the long awaited improvised ambient journey on KFJC in 2014, as part of the 24 Hour Drone. A Moog Rogue synthesiser solo set with pedals, in deep contemplation at dawn on 30 MAY 2014.
Sunset - 12:22: David Leikam performs the debut of Sunset: A tribute to Eddie Gale (1941-2020), an improv piano solo at the Musician's Union Hall, San Francisco on 4 JUN 2023.

Sunrise - 05:41: David Leikam and Eddie Gale duet at Friday Night Music (Music Annex) for an improv of acoustic piano and trumpet in 2002.
delicateVIEWpoint(s) debuts the live studio/radio broadcast sonic collaboration of David Leikam, Joe Straub, and Pamela Z from 2012 on KZSU with additional mastering treatments in 2017.

FIRST - 18:49
ANOTHER - 17:10
FINAL - 10:53
ARTIST SPOTLIGHTS
A feature article in The Wire magazine about David Rosenboom’s life and work begins, “Biofeedback, intelligence swarms, solar vibrations and generative opera are among the utopian possibilities proposed by US composer David Rosenboom during 50 years of navigating new frontiers of music and technology.” (Cowley, J. September 2014. Sounding the cosmos.) David Rosenboom is a composer-performer, interdisciplinary artist, author and educator, known as a pioneer in American experimental music.
Thollem
Thollem is a perpetually traveling pianist, keyboardist, composer, improviser, singer-songwriter, activist, author and teacher. He’s spent most of his life living on the road throughout North America and Europe. His work is ever-changing, evolving and responding to the times and his experiences, both as a soloist and in collaboration with artists across idioms and disciplines along his travels.



Neil Young
Neil Young is a Canadian and American singer and songwriter. After embarking on a music career in Winnipeg in the 1960s, Young moved to Los Angeles, joining the folk-rock group Buffalo Springfield. Since the beginning of his solo career, often with backing by the band Crazy Horse, he has released critically acclaimed albums such as Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (1969), After the Gold Rush (1970), Harvest (1972), On the Beach (1974), and Rust Never Sleeps (1979).
LKD is a power trio that is influenced by improv, industrial, jazz, metal, and shoegaze sonic elements featuring David Leikam, Jon Kulpit, and Matthew Davis.
zBug is a psychedelic improv jazz unit. Found in 2006 by David Leikam while at CalArts and now in the SFBA, currently featuring David Leikam, Sheila Bosco, Patrick Cress, Doug Ellington, and Timothy Orr.

NS Design was founded in 1990 by the award winning instrument designer Ned Steinberger to design and produce bowed electric instruments that advance the state of the art.
Since its foundation in the early 1980s, Schertler Audio has launched a programme of passionate research that aims to achieve the highest levels of accuracy in the reproduction of acoustic stringed instrument sound.