Gerard Lebik creates sound and music, either by improvisation, musical notation or through direct manipulation of sonic material using acoustic, electronic and electroacoustic media. Lebik expands his musical palette through utilisation of various tools and techniques: tenor saxophone, contralto clarinet, zopan wave generators, air compressors, analog video feedback, sound objects and software. In 2007 he graduated from the Wroclaw Academy of Music, where he studied and worked in the fields of classical music, jazz, free improvisation, experimental, sound art and noise.

He has performed with: Eryck Abecassis, Kazuhisa Uchihashi, Rob Mazurek, Keith Rowe, Brian Labycz, Hernani Faustino, Gabriel Ferrnandini, Noritaka Tanaka, Bettina Wenzel, hans w koch, Joker Nies, Clayton Thomas, Christian Marien, Anton Hatwich, Marc Riordan, Sebastian Meissner, Pawel Janicki, Artur Majewski, Kuba Suchar, Piotr Damasiewicz, Yamaguchi Jin Lang, Ura Hiroyuki.

Significant events: V:NM-Festival in Graz, Bienale Zagreb, Tokyo Jazz, TodaysArt Festival Hague, Festival Umbrella Chicago, Musica Electronica Nova, Survival Art Review Wroclaw, Art Of Improvisation, Sibiu Jazz and More, SuperDeluxe-Tokyo, Alte Feuerwache-Cologne, CSW-Warszawa, Galeria Leto, Galeria Kordegarda, De Werf-Brugge, Pit Inn Shinjuku-Tokyo, Ftarri-Tokyo.

On the night he will be presenting his VHS ESP sound installation. An alteration in the intensity and light saturation, and the magnetic field fluctuation on tapes old video cassettes gives micro changes in the sound captured from video recorders. To create the visual space used, a set of VHS recorders and analogue monitoring systems using infra-red cameras and televisions kinescope feedback, controlled by the frequency of the pure acoustic waves generated by the generators Zopan KZ 1406 will be utilised. An adaptation of analogue devices enables control of the image using the acoustic waves, and control of sounds by using the analog video interference. The result is a visible and audible feedback of analogue, video and audio.

http://www.gerardlebik.com
http://gerardlebik.blogspot.com/
http://zopan.bandcamp.com
https://vimeo.com/user14063059

Kacper Ziemianin is an artist with a classical musical education, who has experience in various musical genres, encompassing black metal, through to broken electronic music to ambient, noise and circuit bending. Sound travels led him to the Hague, where he is currently studying Sonology at a music conservatory. He graduated in Sonic Arts at Middlesex University in London, after which he also studied at the Music Academy in Krakow under the supervision of professor Marek Chołoniewski, in Berlin (UDK) and under the tutelage of Dr. Alberto de Campo in Amsterdam at STEIM. He has also performed in a couple of musical groups, and has taken part in several projects under various pseudonyms. Ziemianin creates audio-visual installations, sound design for movies and was the author of the, “Polish Deli” broadcasted on London-based radio Resonance FM (2010-2013), where he promoted Polish music and independent art. He has performed and exhibited in Ireland, England, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands and Poland. In 2004 he received the “Dolina Kreatywna” award for his musical piece, “Trans-formation”. Currently Ziemianin is busy building his own musical instruments and modifying already existing constructions, as well as interactive audio-visual installations.

He will be presenting his latest performance with a light sensitive interface.

"This live performance is a result of a research that has taken few years and is now in its final stage. It consists of a hardware and software design. The hardware part is an interface with 24 light sensitive resistors, which allows to control computer software with changing the amount of light. The software part is a computer programme that allows for generating and manipulating sounds in real time. This performance tries to address the problem of live electronic music that has haunted it from its very beginning and that has always been interesting for me - how can the audience relate to what the performer is doing? What makes the live electronic music really live? In my case every visible action causes an audible reaction, so in a way 'what you see is what you get'. By using various light sources I explore possibilities of this instrument, which doesn't try to imitate any existing model, but rather tries to create something new."

http://vimeo.com/88595140
http://ziemianin.net/

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