Andrew Zealley
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Andrew Zealley is a sound artist and composer, living in Toronto, Canada. After 8-years formal music study, Zealley pursued live music with a number of Toronto-based bands including The Biffs, TBA and Perfect World before stretching out into more experimental terrain under the monikers GC1693 and Eden3000.
In the early 1990s, Zealley collaborated with Toronto-based visual artist Robert Flack, creating cross-media installations. Zealley's soundwork, NATURE: THIS IS A RECORDING, was conceived to accompany Flack's EMPOWERMENT visual series in 1990. The collaborative installation was first exhibited at Garnet Press Gallery, Toronto, in 1991. Flack died of AIDS-related cases in October 1993. The artist-bookwork, This Is True To Me (1994), documents the final offerings of their collaborative work. It is during this decade that Zealley also began composing music for film and television - including the score for director John Greyson's made-for-tv feature UNCUT in 1997. Later that same year, Zealley began a 7-year audio partnership with Don Pyle, composing, producing and publishing a series of releases as Greek Buck. The duo also scored for film and television, including 2 feature films by Greyson - The Law of Enclosures (2001) and Proteus (2003) - and numerous short films by Sarah Polley, Wrik Mead and John Greyson. Greek Buck created the opening title music to the US television series Queer As Folk.
Since June 2003, Zealley has worked as a solo artist and in collaborative circumstances with (primarily), visual artists. He publishes soundwork in small multiple-format editions and presents audio in art gallery and museum settings - including collaborative works with AA Bronson, Chrysanne Stathacos, Ultra-red, Stephen Andrews, Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay, Luis Jacob and others. His suite, Five Nocturnes For Electricity, was published by EN/OF (Germany, 2004). Since 2004, Zealley has curated performative exhibitions and events for Art Metropole, Toronto - including ARTMETRONOME:01 (a performance art and audio event featuring Antony & The Johnsons, The Hidden Cameras, Daniel Barrow, Daniel Olsen, and Marla Hlady); HALOS: DAVID BUCHAN & ROBERT FLACK, featuring an sound installation; and ADVERTISING BY ARTISTS featuring Cecilia Berkovic, Stephen Ellwood, Nestor Kruger and Yoko Ono.
In 2006, Zealley participated in SILENT | LISTEN, a performance piece organized by L.A.-based audio activists Ultra-red, staged at The Art Gallery of Ontario. In September of that year, he presented ONE GARDEN ONE NIGHT ONE WISH, a collaborative installation with Chrysanne Stathacos for Toronto's NUIT BLANCHE. That year also saw the release of 3 films by Scott Treleaven, each scored by Zealley. The films premiered at John Connelly Presents (NYC), and Kavi Gupta Gallery (Chicago). In November 2006, his 1990 soundwork, NATURE: THIS IS A RECORDING, was remounted at The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (November 18, 2006 - February 7, 2007). In February 2007, NATURE: THIS IS A RECORDING was acquired for the permanent collection of The National Gallery of Canada. A companion edition of the remastered NATURE: THIS IS A RECORDING is published by Art Metropole.
Zealley also produces sound under the name PSBEUYS.
2007:
New collaborative work, with Stathacos, includes the DVD edition NEW YORK CITY: ONE GARDEN ONE YEAR and a multiple based on the wishing tree project at Nuit Blanche. Together they have organized LADY DAY LORD NIGHT, a celebration of Vernal Equinox taking place simultaneously at Art Metropole (Toronto), and Printed Matter (NYC). March 21, 2007
SONIC PROTEST - remixes of Sun Ra's NUCLEAR WAR are transmitted throughout the city of Philadelphia, in protest of the mounting nuclear arms race. March 2007
PSBEUYS vs KOTV
PSBEUYS vs Black Sun Productions
