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b'Composer, performer, and instrument builder \\xa0is known for creating compositions using materials she finds in the natural world\\u2014things like stones, wood, water, ice, sand, shells and feathers. She\\u2019s travelled as far as the Arctic and Antarctica in search of new sounds like calving glaciers and her set of penguin bone instruments.\\nLeonard talks about some of the challenges of making her microscopically quiet music while living in a city, like having to wake at 3 a.m. and climb into her closet to record. She also discusses the benefits she gets from her other two serious passions, Aikido and mountaineering, and how making art doesn\\u2019t necessarily trump those things.'