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Philip
Jeck
Vinyl Coda I-III
2 CDs |
The sound performer
Philip Jeck, who lives in Liverpool, was trained in the fine arts at the
Dartington College of Arts in England. Since the seventies he has used
the medium of stage performance. Since the early eighties Jeck has been
experimenting with the possibilities of the DJ, he works with turntables,
tape recorders and electronics.
In 1993 A Vinyl Requiem was presented in London, a sound performance
and installation with 180 Dansette record players, manipulated disks and
a number of film projectors. For this homage to the fading vinyl age Jeck
won the 1993 Performance Award.
Other works (selected):
Off the Record, Bridge. For Bayerischer Rundfunk / Radio
Drama and Media Art Jeck composed Vinyl Coda I and Vinyl Coda
II, which was performed and broadcast live in the studio in Munich. Vinyl Coda III was the opening event for the festival intermedium
1, which took place from 19 to 21 November 1999 at the Berlin Academy
of Fine Arts.
Vinyl Coda I was nominated Radio Play of the Month of February
in 1999 by the German Academy of the Performing Arts: "The performance
is fascinating because two transparent patterns become come to light in
the composition, but they are broken up and varied in a surprising way.
The listener's expectations are therefore continually undermined and the
piece, lasting a full 20 minutes, is good for surprises up to the very
end. With its artistic principle of contrasting the imperfection of antiquated
hardware and software with the digital perfection of modern studio technology,
Jeck makes a central theme of radio and the 'DJ culture', which has made
an art form of scratching."
Vinyl Coda II was nominated Karl-Sczuka-Award, 1999 by Südwestrundfunk.
Philip Jeck, who once gave his performances the subtitle low-fi classics
for the electronic generation, once again takes his orchestra consisting
of Dansette record players from the 50s and 60s on a hypnotic sound journey:
on his Dansettes he places disks he has picked up at flea markets. With
the crackling, rustling and hissing – all the interference dirt
and wear causes on old sound media – the materials starts to speak.
Jeck's compositional concept for outdated HiFi units: loop 'n' scratch – he works the disks with glue and a scalpel so that the needle
sticks at desired points and generates sound loops at various playing
speeds between 16 and 78 rpm. Music sequences, noises, voice and speech
fragments form the tonal structure of Jeck's material-bound compositions.
His sound pieces, which will emerge live in front of an audience, will
be one-offs.
CD 1
Vinyl Coda I
22‘17
Composed and performed by Philip Jeck
Studio Performance: Livesendung / Live Broadcast: 17.02.1999
Bayern2Radio, Munich
Produced by: Bayerischer Rundfunk / Hörspiel
und Medienkunst
Vinyl Coda II
44‘30
Composed and performed by: Philip Jeck
Studio Performance: Livesendung / Live Broadcast: 19.02.1999
Bayern2Radio, Munich
Produced by: Bayerischer Rundfunk / Hörspiel
und Medienkunst
CD 2
Vinyl Coda III
63‘25
Composed and performed by: Philip Jeck
Liveaufnahme / Recorded live at intermedium 1, 19.11.1999
Akademie der Künste, Berlin
Produced by: Bayerischer Rundfunk / Hörspiel
und Medienkunst
Hessischer Rundfunk - DeutschlandRadio - Radio Bremen
intermedium
rec. 002
ISBN 978-3-939444-03-9
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