Ebauche (aka Alex Leonard) currently resides in Letrim and has been producing music for 4 years. Musically his output covers a range of dark beat driven electronica to sublime ambient cascades to simple piano compositions.
Last year (2005) Ebauche released his debut album through his own website www.ebauche.net which has been played by John Kelly on RTE Radio 1's Mystery Train. The album is an ambient work, with layers upon layers beautifully interlacing and falling apart. Other releases include 2 EP's, as well as a number of tracks on compilation releases from Invisible Agent, The Alphabet Set and Elusive Recordings.Recently he has started composing music for film, and has worked on a number of shorts including The Boy with the Ever Open Jaw, Joyriders (Best Short Film at the Galway Film Fesitval 2006) and The Dropping Well. He is currently working on a new 8 minute short film called The Masterpiece.
He started out playing live sets with Blue Murder Music in Dublin, and since then has played with notables such as Biosphere, Hrvatski and Ambulance.Influences include: Autechre, Harold Budd, The Orb, Fennesz, Shuttle 358, Frank Bretschneider, Aphex Twin, John Foxx, Keith Fullerton-Whitman, Woob, Brian Eno, Squarepusher, as well as Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Shostakovich, Chopin and Gorecki.
website: www.ebauche.net