bradley leonard


selected works
2023-2025
  1. Stasis Echoes (2025)
  2. Wartezone 15 (2025)
  3. Intolerance 1963 (2025)
  4. Phase Portrait: Dacia (2025)
  5. The Ecstasy of Gold (2025)
  6. Q3 Earnings Call (2023)
  7. Baton, Jersey, America’s Team - Collector’s Edition (2023)
  8. Edo25 C# Minor Melodic, trance-like melodies, crescendo to resolve in a
    minor 9th, breakbeat percussion featuring heavy kickdrums no. 1 & no. 2 (2024)        
 
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    The Ecstasy of Gold (2025)




                From Studies in the History of the RenaissanceAs part of Jahressausstelung 2025 at The Akademie der Bildenden Künste München

    Ecstasy of Gold is a sound installation that loops and stretches an unlicensed sample of Ennio Morricone’s iconic film score into a drone, played through a corporate conference speaker mounted atop a column of concrete slabs. By transforming an emotionally charged cinematic moment into a sterile, mechanical tone, the work reflects on how the sublime is flattened in bureaucratic and capitalist systems. The ecstatic is rendered utilitarian; memory becomes signal; intensity becomes hold music.

    While commercial reuse by the legal owner of the composition remains legal and culturally normalized, this critical gesture, repurposing the original to question its commodification, is not.





    Documentation: Diogo Frazão