Gerard Lebik (PL)
Gerard Lebik is a composer, improviser, sound artist, and curator working in the fields of experimental music and sound art. He is the founder of Sokołowsko Music Lab and the creator of the Sanatorium of Sound Festival (2015–2024). His work explores various sound sources and musical practices, including electroacoustic composition and non-idiomatic improvisation. His installations and sonic interventions investigate themes such as the perception and propagation of sound waves, temporal distortion, psychoacoustics, and the relationship between sound, architecture, and urban space.
Lebik has performed at festivals and venues, including TPAM (Yokohama, JP), Rewire (The Hague, NL), CTM (Berlin, DE), Fiber Festival (Amsterdam, NL), TodaysArt Festival (The Hague, NL), MONOM (Berlin, DE), Tokyo Jazz (Tokyo, JP), Umbrella (Chicago, US), Experimental Intermedia (New York, US), SuperDeluxe (Tokyo, JP), and Fylkingen (Stockholm, SE).
He has collaborated with artists, including Keith Rowe, Phil Minton, Ryoko Akama, Burkhard Beins, David Maranha, Peter Rehberg, Jérôme Noetinger, Paul Lovens, Aleksandra Słyż, Judith Hamann, and many others.