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Artist Statement:
aka PitPit
Interdisciplinary artist
striving to create hybrids by
melching disciplines together
so that they rely on each
other.
Curious enough to experiment,
often discovering potential
new forms, but not academic
enough to ruin a simple idea
with a long winded essay.
Composes music for film,
video, dance and music.
Likes to laugh, especially at
his own expence.
Currently working with sensors
to control video playback. It
is not enough to watch TV.
Not afraid to fail. Often
finds gems in the rough.
Distrusts the media.
The argument for Abstract Art
is a feeble one. A painting is
real. I can touch it. But
Electronic Art is abstract,
like interac.
There are no spelling
mistakes....
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Reviews for Gerard Leckey:
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HOPSCOTCH:
"Très bonne pièce où danse, images vidéo et musique fusionnent agréablement."
"Very good piece where dance, video images and music fuse well."
www.dfdanse.com/archives2002/a169.html
AUTOMATES KI (CD):
"Refreshing, weird, menacing puppet music- if I'd ever dreamed of such a thing,I'd never've figured it could sound this great."
New York Press, February 4-10, 1998
"an analog orchestra of trembling inconsistency."
Pulse (USA), February 1998
(Disk Of The Week) "A resounding success, and frequentley frightening. 10/10" Montréal Mirror, Jan. 1998
BASTRINGUE BATARD:
"A recommended elixer, with an enchanting flavour."
Hour Magazine, February 1998
"Les arrangements musical de Gerard Leckey sauvé la piece de ennui."
"The musical arrangements of Gerard Leckey saved the piece from boredom."
Voir Magazine, Janvier 1998
PICT: "The ephemeral nature of the art they create is in part due to the variety of space that they use, and indeed, space is an integral part of a PICT performance."
McGill Daily, October 1993
STRANGE NURSERY (LP):
"We listen to this in our office alot. By the way, this went to <1 on hip NYC-area radio station WFMU."
NewMusic Distribution Service Newsletter
"The music plays like the soundtrack to a child's worst nightmare, when all the sinister wind-up toys come to life and run amuck in the middle of the night." Ear Magazine 1989
"This is a most inventive and unique album of cleverly crafted music that should intrigue many."
Alan Freeman, Audion Magazine 1989
"The album is great!" Sue Pearson, CKCU FM
"Nicholas Stirling and Gerard Leckey (Strange Nursery) may just be the music world's answer to Penn and Teller."
Option Magazine, March 1990
COMIC BOOK CONFIDENTIAL (Film):
"A first rate original score." Peter Goddard, Toronto Star1988
"(Strange Nursery) successfully composed pieces dating fron the 40's to the present day and are not limited to one sound."
Sue Quon, Assistant Producer- Comic Book Confidential SPHINX PROD. 1988
"Comic Book Confidential is a valid historical document with a wonderful soundtrack that combines comic book imagery with music of the appropriate era."
Mark Shainblum, Perspectives Canada Magazine, 1989
ART HOSPITAL: "Tilting Funk. A muffled snicker. Gentle laughter. Beguiling gossamer phantoms intertwined in high tech spill overs. Depth and humor up the same sleeve."
Michael Chocolak, Green River Magazine 1988
HUNGRY GLASS (LP): "There is much pleasant weirdness to this album. Quaint and absurd, and those are good things to be."
Nerve Magazine, April 1987
AN INTRODUCTION IN FROST: "The musicians create lush electronic jungles and energetic rhythms- not at all the dark moody, skull pounding we have come to expect from the industrial ambient crowd. NOW Magazine 1987
MATTHEWS/LECKEY: "Martine Matthews and Gerard Leckey succeed at creating a new atmosphere. In terms of sound quality, Leckey sets the standards to which all must meet.
Mike Dyer, Nerve Magazine, 1987
UNTITLED: "I love his sound. It is very inventive and strange."
Alain Neffe, Insane Music, Belgium 1986
UNTITLED: "A brilliant Canadian architect. *****."
FM Magazine, Italia 1986
"Gerard follows his own emotional resources and intuitions and has produced music similar to but apart from any kind of musical evolution."
Chris Twomey, Nerve Magazine, September 1985
XIPHOTEK: "outrageous, witty, silly, sexy, funny, awkward and, well, Great."
Christopher Hume, Toronto Star, April 1985
"There's a positive element to his music and an ability to convey everyday life in the city in a different way."
Victor Barac, Toronto Clarion, 1984
"So bad it has to be real. So awful it must be good."
Toronto Live 1984
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