Gerard Lebik was born in 1980 and graduated from the Academy of Music in Wrocław in the saxophone class. The following compositions from the free jazz period of his career are worth mentioning: Erase (with Michał Trella and Jakub Cywiński), Slug Duo (with Kuba Suchar), Foton (with Artur Majewski and Wojciech Romanowski) and veNN Circles (with Piotr Damasiewicz); he still plays with the latter musician in his quartet/quintet and the Power of Horns group.
Next was the stage of electroacoustic improvisation, in which Lebik’s partners have included Jérôme Noetinger, Kazuchisa Uchihashi, Noid, Eryck Abecassis, Lotte Anker, and Paul Lovens. As an instrumentalist or sound artist Lebik has performed at prestigious events such as Yokohama’s Performing Arts Meeting, Kunsthalle Basel, TodaysArt Festival Hague, V: NM-Festival Graz, Zagreb Biennale, Tokyo Jazz, Festival Umbrella Chicago, TD Vancouver, Biennale Wro and Avant Art in Wrocław, Audio Art in Kraków, Fylkingen in Stockholm, Mem in Bilbao, Superdeluxe in Tokyo, Quite Que in Berlin, De Werf Brugge, Dizzy’s Club in New York, and CSW in Warsaw. He has also resided in Iceland (2015), San Sebastian (2016) and New York (2017).
Selected sound installations:
- WebSDR (2010)
- Tractography Neural Tracts (@Bios@Techne@Art, Gdańsk – Warszawa – Wrocław – Łódź 2013)
- VHS ESP (Mem Festival Bilbao, 2013)
- Aseptic Sinus Infection (SURVIVAL, Wrocław, 2014)
- Wniebogłosy (Generator Malta, Poznań, 2014)
- Saccade (WRO Bienalle, Wrocław, 2015)
- The Monochord Will Give Eternal Life (Seyðisfjörður, 2015)
- Leap Second June 30, 2015 at 23:59:60 UTC (z Burkhardem Beinsem i Markiem Baronem (Seyðisfjörður, 2015)
- El Peine del viento (A-i-R Wro ESK, San Sebastian, 2016)
- Stones (Sanatorium Dźwięku, Sokołowsko, 2017)
- Air in Air ( Konfrontationen, Nickelsdorf 2018)
- We Don’t Need a Body (Sanatorium Dźwięku, Sokołowsko, 2019)
Selected albums/projects for solo and group music:
- Eryck Abecassis /Gerard Lebik (Zopan Rec 2013)
- Zopan VHS ESP (Zopan Rec 2013)
- Morihide Sawada/Gerard Lebik (Zopan Rec 2013)
- Organic Stone, w: Slug Duo (Vytvornia Om, 2010)
- Zomo Hall, w: Foton (Not Two Records, 2010)
- Hadrons, z: Piotr Damasiewicz, Maciej Obara, Aukso (Ars Cameralis Silesiae Superiors 2011)
- New and Old Dreams, w: Erase Quartet (For Tune 2013)
- Jaworowa 39 53-122 Wrocław + Live at Drabina 13, z: Gabrielem Ferrandinim (FLAC, Zopan Rec 2013)
- veNN Circles, z Piotrem Damasiewiczem i Gabrielem Ferrandinim (Bocian Records, 2014)
- Mnemotaksja, w: Piotr Damasiewicz Quartet (For Tune, 2014)
- Mineral z: Red Trio i Piotrem Damasiewiczem (LP, Bocian Records, 2015)
- Anime Pezzentelle, z: Davidem Maranhą (LP, Bocian Records, 2015)
- Dry Mountain, z: Keithem Rowe’m i innymi (w ramach The Fall of Recording, Sokołowsko, 2016)
- Dry Mountain Orchestra, z: Keithem Rowe’m i innymi (Sokołowsko, 2017)
- ADVENT, z: Davidem Maranhą i Philem Mintonem (LP, Bocian Records, 2019)
Originally written in Polish by Jan Topolski, translated into English by Patryk Grabowski, December 2019