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. The artist-bookwork, This Is True To Me (1994), documents the final offerings of that collaborative project. 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.
Zealley currently works alone and in collaborative circumstances with visual artists and non-musicians. He published audio in small multiple-format editions and presents work in art gallery and museum settings - including collaborative works with AA Bronson, Chrysanne Stathacos, Ultra-red, Scott Treleaven, Stephen Andrews, Luis Jacob, Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay and others. His suite, Five Nocturnes For Electricity, was published by EN/OF (Germany, 2004). Since 2004, Zealley has also worked as a curator, presenting events and exhibitions for Art Metropole, Toronto.
