An Alphabet Of Fluctuation

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Gerard Lebik and Burkhard Beins create musical forms of minimalist idiom, which consist of isolated sound events as well as gradually revealing harmonies and resonances. Metallic sounds from a large heavy cymbal are amplified and blend with electronically generated sine waves of varying amplitude, unfolding in a continuous glissando. An Alphabet Of Fluctuation is the evidence of how both artists rethink their approach towards deep reduction. One can see here a great sensitivity in determining the means of expression and formal concepts.

The artists do not shape the pieces into dynamic structures with a linear course but strive to achieve a specific effect of micro-flickering of sound – an illusion of suspension of time. These recordings should be considered as an environment, involving the listener to intensify perceptual activity. During their realization, an attempt was made to use the natural properties of space in the most nuanced way possible, treating the set of speakers as additional instruments. The experiments with sound directivity and density used here are aimed at creating specific acoustic machinery.

Paweł Szroniak
April 2021

Gerard Lebik: pd, ppooll, zopan generator
Burkhard Beins: amplified ride cymbal, additional sine wave and synth (on III and IV)

Burkhard Beins / Gerard Lebik  - An Alphabet Of Fluctuation

Ryoko Akama / Gerard Lebik - 11,433 KM distance

Made for http://www.frameless-muenchen.de/?page_id=60

The sound gestures used for this performance were recorded in two different parts of the world, Ryoko Akama worked with sound objects in his studio in Huddersfield, UK, while Gerard Lebik recorded his sound interventions in Jambami, Tanzania during residency at the Pamoja Zanzibar Festival. Video work is a sonic reflection on the eternal and unchanging nature of being. The ancient Greeks argued that the structure of cosmic and human life was inhabited by the spirits of two worlds, waging a mortal battle with each other. This fight is so powerful and so vast that we have no way of predicting its outcome. The growing spirit is the spirit of civilization - it constantly strives to create forms in which life can expand, create and secure itself. On the other hand, the burning spirit seeks life in motion, and change, but also in a battle of conflict and violence. Both forces are part of the natural order. War and peace, preservation and destruction, constructive evolution and destructive revolution are all part of nature.

Ryoko Akama is a sound artist/composer/performer, who approaches minimalistic compositions that magnify silence, time, and space and offer quiet temporal/spatial experiences. Her works examine delicate and fragile objects such as paper balloons and glass bottles, creating tiny occurrences that embody ‘almost nothing’ aesthetics. She runs melange edition label, amespace and co-edits mumei publishing.

https://ryokoakama.com/

Ryoko Akama / Gerard Lebik - 11,433 KM distance

AER 

https://vimeo.com/786882557

Compressed Air Sound Performance 
Hutman Hall 
Sanatorium Of Sound  Festival Production 
AER – Compressed Air Sound Performance- explores the potential of compressed air as a source of an acoustic sound wave that generates pure white noise. The phenomenon of centrifugal force generated during the air recoil sets the objects in a rotating motion, transforming the acoustic white noise generator into an ambisonic sound object defining the acoustic space of the architecture of the room in which the performance takes place.

…and the differences are due to the thickening and dilution in individual things, and from the dilution comes fire, and from the thickening comes wind, then clouds, and from the still greater thickening comes water, then earth, then stones, and from them everything else, just as the soul … which is air, holds us in concentration, so also the whole world also surrounds us, when it is quite evenly distributed, then it is not visible to the eye, but reveals itself in the form of cold, heat, moisture and motion
is that which is incorporeal: and since we arise through its flow, it is necessary that it be infinite and abundant, so that it never runs out…

Anaximenes of Miletus

Credits
Dobre Moce / Wojtek Jeżewski 
Piotr Motyl 
Mariusz Sobczak / szary szum 
Adam Wachulewicz
Grzegorz Górnicki
Michał Słodkiewicz
kazimierze Ździebło

AER  Compressed Air Sound Performance -  Hutman Hall

FOTON group came into existence as a result of a monochromatic heliography process. The appliance of this process on an acoustic jazz and free improvisation quartet playing original improvised music lead to creating a new  conception of sound and form granting equal rights to both improvisations and permanent elements of composition.
Group  in it's actual shape appeared  in 2008 performing mostly on local jazz scene of Wrocław, Poland and comprises tenor saxophone and contra alto clarinet player Gerard Lebik known for his work with Slug Duo and Emerge, trumpeter Artur Majewski working with duo Mikrokolektyw, bassist Jakub Cywinski being active in a circle of improvised and classical music in London and one of the finest polish drummers of young generation, native of city Bygdoszcz - Wojciech Romanowski.
Their record debut "Zomo Hall" picturizes  Wroclaw's improvised and jazz music scene where all members of the group meet in various music setups.The album released by NotTwo Records has been enthusiastically reviewed by critics around the globe.
gerard lebik - tenor sax,bass clarinet artur majewski - trumpet jakub cywinski - bass wojciech romanowski - drums CD
# foton start up 2002
# foton zomo hall  2010 Note Two Records 
"I suggest if you are interested in something new and creative--do yourself a favour and pick up Zomo Hall. Highly Recommend!"
(Stephan Moore, jazzwrap.blogspot)
http://jazzwrap.blogspot.com/2011/04/foton-quartetpoland-strikes-again.html

"...sometimes I wonder just how many gifted improvisers known & unknown are there around the world... hundreds? thousands? even more? There seems like an endless supply as more independent label emerge and release so many interesting discs. Take this disc, for instance...
(...) In a blindfold test, you would certainly come up with numerous more famous musicians but you wouldn't be too far from this does sound like."
(Bruce Lee Gallanter, Downtown Music Gallery)
http://search2.downtownmusicgallery.com/lookup.cgi?item=2011_02_18_15_22_30

"here is nothing like pure and free musicality, flowing notes moving slowly forward, embracing one another in a common one-directional stream, yet totally unpredictable like the water sliding between rocks in a mountain river. So is this music. (...) The most stunning aspect of the music is its great natural and organic sound, as if every note grows out of the previous one, without the need to demonstrate skill or use special effects or to be different in form. And the end result is skillful, and special, and different ... as the result of talent and creative vision. Extremely beautiful! The year has only just begun, and this is to me already a strong contender for the best of the year lists."
(freejazz-stef.blogspot)
http://freejazz-stef.blogspot.com/2011/01/foton-quartet-zomo-hall-not-two-2010.html

(...)None of the participants are well-known outside their home country, but that might not stay the case for long, based on their strength as a unit; full of sensitive listening which puts the group first, there is empathy in abundance here(...)
( Jonn Sharpe  All About Jazz )
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=41422

Foton Zomo Hall 2007.08.08  Artur Majewski Jakub Cywinski Wojciech Romanowski Gerard Lebik

The meeting of the musicians from „ERASE” band took place in the University of Music in Wroclaw in 2005. Seeking for common aesthetic and conceptive patterns bore fruit in arising of the duet: Michał Trela – drums and Gerard Lebik – saxophone. They realized that the idea of their music based on linear saxophone patterns and polyrhythm deriving from free jazz tradition can be expanded to achieve the completeness of the sound. Thus, the appearance of the third member of the band, double bass – Jakub Cywiński, raised on the modern classical music and infatuated with stable grooves joined with neo-bop walkings led to full crystallization of the assumptions of the „ERASE” which are bound up with the combination of the rhythmical layer and improvisation of the free jazz conception, along with the modern classical music conception of melody and form. 

ERASE 04.06.2012 Michał Trela Gerard Lebik Max Mucha Jakub Mielcarek


Morihide SAWADA

... was born in 1963 in Japan.
Since 1980, started to play his own music. He studied  electrical engineering in  university. His first job was an editor of  a music magazine that specializes in progressive rock. After that, he was working as a sound engineer, and he sometimes played drums with diffrent bands.
In 2006, SAWADA played drums as a member of  a psychedelic rock band. Since that time, he sometimes play in Europe.
He started solo performance "snare drum solo" since September 2011. Its music has received strong influence mostly from traditional folk music and minimalism.
 past collaborations ----
Faust, Damo Suzuki, Charles Hayward, Z’EV, Geoff Leigh, Chris Cutler, Cathy Heyden, Cat Hope, Lindsay Vickery, Jérôme Fouquet, Keiji Haino, Andrea Valvini, Nathalie Forget, Thomas Zunk, Zn'shñ, Oran, Go Tsushima, Yumi Hara, Gerard Lebik ...
 
current projects ----
snare drum solo
Shizuku Aosaki + SAWADA
Feather and Envelope
 
concert series (as an organizer) ----
chamber music of acoustic and electronics

http://www.snaredrumsolo.com/ 

Morihide Sawada Gerard Lebik 17.06.2014

Kazuhisa Uchihashi Kuba Suchar Gerard Lebik Arto of Improvisation 2011 

Kazuhisa Uchihashi Kuba Suchar Gerard Lebik 09.06.2011

Mineral - Bocian Records LP bc – veRED
Red Trio + Gerard Lebik + Piotr Damasiewicz
Rodrigo Pinheiro - piano
Hernani Faustino - bass
Gabriel Ferrandini - drums
Gerard Lebik - tenor sax
Piotr Damasiewicz - trumpet 

Recorded at live concert: site A 14.04.2014 Cracow Poland, site B 15.04.2014 Wrocław Poland
mix:Gerard Lebik, Mastering & Cut: Mat Colton ( Alchemy Mastering ) Cover & Design: Kama Sokolnicka bc – veRED, distributed by metamkine 

http://www.bocianrecords.com/
http://www.redtrio.info/

Red Trio  Piotr Damasiewicz Gerard Lebik 15.04.2014

'Aseptic Sinus Infection - sound installation, onsite-specific spatial compositi, which uses sound waves to produce acoustic
vibration and resonance of the solid elements in defined architecture.


curated by Daniel Brożek

SURVIVAL 12 ART REVIEW: 
‘CITY – INFLAMMATORY STATE’
27 June – 1 July 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcllcMle3Vo

Aseptic Sinus Infection  27.06.2014 Sound Instalation

Paul Lovens  Gerard Lebik John  Edwards Lublin  23. 04. 2015 

Paul Lovens  Gerard Lebik John  Edwards

Lotte Anker Gerard Lebik 29.09.2015 Copenhagen TILDE

Jerome Noetinger Gerard Lebik Duo Lille 29.10.2015
 Avan Art 2015

Jerome Noetinger Gerard Lebik Lille 29.10.2015

Josefin Lindebrink – Altered Space, 2015
Zopan Sinus Infection - Research of dependence between pure tones and generated sound, referring to first experiments with conversion of electric waves to audible sounds.
Audible range of the waves emitted by Multifunction Generator - ZOPAN KZ 1406 0.0005 Hz-100 kHz, produced in the 80's by the "Polish Institute of Scientific Equipment" - ZOPAN, are used to "sine infection" in define space.

http://gerardlebik.blogspot.com/2015/01/fylkingen-acoustic-continuums-gerard.html

Gerard Lebik 17.01.2015 Fylkingen Stokholm 6 Channels Projection- Binaural Records

Dry Mountain  
The composed piece made by Keith Rowe and Gerard Lebik interpreted by instrumentalists invited to perform it: Johnny Chang, Mike Majkowski, Bryan Eubanks, Xavier Lopez, Jonas Kocher, Gaudenz Bardutt, Emilio Gordoa, as well as visual artists: Bożenna Biskupska, Alicja Bielawska, Daniel Koniusz, or festival guests: Michael Pisaro, Brian Olewnik, Lena Czerkawska who created further graphical scores to enable performances in various instrumental configurations. The project as a whole conforms to the broader tendency for experimentation in the fields of musical notation and the interference of different artistic disciplines.
‘The End of the Recordings’ curated by Michał Libera

Keith Rowe Gerard Lebik Dry Mountain 13.08.2016

"Gliss"

Rec 20.03.2018 Sokołowsko
Gerard Lebik - digital electronics
Burkhard Beins - analog electronics

album avaible in Zopan Rec

https://zopan.bandcamp.com/album/gliss

Burkhard Beins Gerard Lebik - Gliss  20.03.2018

"Walce poszły w świat"  Utwór generatywny w czasie (2020-2043) OVERINTERPRETATIONS


as a part of OVERINTERPRETATIONS: MATĚJ FRANK 29.10.20–14.12.20 Exhibition curated by Paweł Szroniak in MWW Muzeum Współczesne Wrocław  >>> overwriting of Zbigniew Gostomski’s "It Begins in Wrocław" + John Cage’s "49 Waltzes for the Five Boroughs (1976)".  Overinterpretations - A series of musical events accompanying the New Normativity. Wrocław ’70 Visual Arts Symposium exhibition https://muzeumwspolczesne.pl/mww/wystawy/naduzycia-matej-frank/?fbclid=IwAR00fZf_VE54ObochQSdXPxWqsy-F8pbQOHjCFljckxZKhzLiJGh2Fw7CmQ&lang=en 
Palimpsestem do "Mogłoby się zacząć gdziekolwiek" Mateja Franka jest ustalona metoda matematyczna tj.losowe przyporządkowanie częstotliwości pojedyńczym falom sinusoidalnym w zakresie od 38.1890 - 8569.7869 Hz dla poszczególnych wylosowanych parametrów (ulice Wrocławia). Każda wylosowana sekwencja trzech parametrów  daje współbrzmienie trzech tonów w akordach systemu mikrotonowego. Czas pojawiających się kolejno po sobie poszczególnych tryptyków/akordów  będzie determinowany z jednej strony samą ich ilość(49), a z drugiej moją intuicją  w używaniu narzędzia ppooll sinE MaxMSP. Przejście z jednej struktury (A123) do drugiej (B123) jest płynne, a czas jaki musi pokonać każda z fal jest identyczny; z uwagi na różne odległości pomiędzy wylosowanymi częstotliwościami, prędkość z jaką będzie poruszała się fala przechodząca z punktu A123 do punktu B123 będzie algorytmicznie dostosowana do zaprogramowanego i narzuconego rezultatu, czyli spotkania jednoczesnego trzech stałych w jednym czasie-punkcie. 

Podążając za Gostomskim który mówi:„Założeniem mojej pracy jest jej stały i nieskończony, równomiernie we wszystkich kierunkach postępujący rozwój, który obejmować będzie swym zasięgiem coraz to dalsze (w stosunku do punktu wyjściowego) obszary”, postanowiłem stworzyć robota generującego nieskończoną liczbę wariantów palimpsestu partytury Franka używającego sekwencji z utworu Johna Cage'a "Walce".

Zegar generujący będzie działał jako program-aplikacja w internecie i będzie zsynchronizowany z UTC±00:00. Procedura wylosowania 49x3 zestawów częstotliwości będzie następowała w cyklu co 147 godziny. W cym cyklu czasowym program generator wylosuje 49x3 sekwencje częstotliwości i ułoży je kolejno w czasie uwzględniając również losowy parametr czasu dla odcinków pomiędzy nimi, tworząc za każdym razem nową kompozycje. Kwestię poszerzania obszaru zasięgu rozwiąże kolejny program generator losujący na mapie google miasta, w których liczba ulic przekracza 147, aby następnie wylosować w nich nowe zestawy ulic 49X3 łącząc je z częstotliwościami wylosowanymi przez zegar pierwszy, odpowiedzialny za przyporządkowywanie częstotliwości.  


Do roku 2043 maszyna wylosuję 1370 wariantów kompozycji.

https://gerardlebik.blogspot.com/2020/12/03122020-overinterpretations-to.html

"Walce poszły w świat"  Utwór generatywny w czasie (2020-2043) OVERINTERPRETATIONS

Gerard Lebik - sound artist, improviser, and composer. Artistic director and curator of the Sanatorium of Sound festival in Sokołowsko. As a saxophonist, he is active in the field of improvised music, concurrently exploring electronics and forms of experimental and intermedia music. His sound installations and interventions are based on white noise, sinusoidal waves, feedback, multichannel sound, and focus on issues such as the perception and propagation of sound waves, disruptions of time, psychoacoustics, examining the relationships between sound and architecture. He is a graduate of the Wrocław Academy of Music.
He has collaborated with artists such as Keith Rowe, Phil Minton, Ryoko Akama, Burkhard Beins, Paul Lovens, David Maranha, Peter Rehberg, Jérôme Noetinger, Zbigniew Karkowski, Kasper T. Toeplitz, Noid, Lucio Capece, Kazuhisa Uchihashi, Aleksandra Słyż, Judith Hamann, and many others. He has performed at TPAM (Yokohama, JP), Rewire (The Hague, NL), CTM (Berlin, DE), Fiber Festival (Amsterdam, NL), TodaysArt Festival (The Hague, NL), MONOM (Berlin, DE), Biennale (Zagreb, HU), Tokyo Jazz (Tokyo, JP), Umbrella (Chicago, US), Experimental Intermedia (New York, US), Biennale Wro (Wrocław, PL), Kunsthalle (Basel, CH), SuperDeluxe (Tokyo, JP), Fylkingen (Stockholm, SE), cave12 (Genève, CH), Konfrontationen (Nickelsdorf, AT), hcmf (Huddersfield, UK).
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