tag:,2012:/6 2012-04-22T14:24:24Z Philip Jeck studied visual art at Dartington College of Arts. He started working with record players and electronics in the early '80's and has made soundtracks and toured with many dance and theatre companies as we as well as his solo concert work. His best kown work "Vinyl Requiem" (with Lol Sargent): a performance for 180 '50's/'60's record players won Time Out Performance Award for 1993. He has recently created "Vinyl Codas I-IV" for Bavarian Radio, "Coda II" winning a Karl Sczuka prize for Radio Art. He has also over the last few years returned to visual art making installations using from 6 to 80 record players including "Off The Record" for Sonic Boom at The Hayward Gallery, London. Philip Jeck works with old records and record players salvaged from junk shops turning them to his own purposes. He really does play them as musical instruments, creating an intensely personal language that evolves with each added part of a record. Philip Jeck makes geniunely moving and transfixing music, where we hear the art not the gimmick. Movable Type 3.35 tag:www.philipjeck.com,2012://6.3492 2012-04-22T14:23:52Z 2012-04-22T14:24:24Z

22.04.12 - VINYL+, Live at ZKM, Karlsruhe 21st April 2012 - 63:16 - 192 kbps Photo: Mike Harding and Philip Marshall Achim Mohné [00:00 to 29:11] uses three Omnitronic decks, Philip Jeck [26:51 to 63:16] uses two Dancettes and sampler....

Field www.field.nu VINYL+, Live at ZKM, Karlsruhe 21st April 2012 - 63:16 - 192 kbps Photo: Mike Harding and Philip Marshall Achim Mohné [00:00 to 29:11] uses three Omnitronic decks, Philip Jeck [26:51 to 63:16] uses two Dancettes and sampler. Recorded by Philip Marshall from desk to hard drive. The resurgence of vinyl in recent years is a phenomenon which has not gone unnoticed; as CD declines sharply, its audio limitations exposed not only by advances in other technologies, but also by the myths propagated at the inception of digital exposed, so artists explore and demand other formats to express their work. Although a business model is still some way off the traditional artist » label » distribution » shop paradigm, it is clear this is being radically overhauled and replaced by online sales platforms set up by the artists themselves. But vinyl seems to have escaped this process, and continues to grow. Why is that?]]> tag:www.philipjeck.com,2012://6.3460 2012-03-23T16:40:27Z 2012-03-23T16:41:22Z

We have 40 free tickets available in the TouchShop for: May 3rd Touch.30 live at Kingston University Improvisation and Digital Arts Festival Market House, Kingston Upon Thames, Surrey UK Live: Philip Jeck - www.philipjeck.com BJNilsen - www.bjnilsen.com Chris Watson -...

Field www.field.nu TouchShop for: May 3rd Touch.30 live at Kingston University Improvisation and Digital Arts Festival Market House, Kingston Upon Thames, Surrey UK Live: Philip Jeck - www.philipjeck.com BJNilsen - www.bjnilsen.com Chris Watson - www.chriswatson.net 1500-1700 Touch Seminar: Mike Harding chairs a panel with the artists 2000-2200 Touch.30 Live http://www.idaf.co.uk/]]> tag:www.philipjeck.com,2012://6.3449 2012-03-14T17:59:17Z 2012-03-14T17:59:47Z

The 13th Spire will take place at St. Botolphs without Aldgate on Thursday 21st June 2012 as part of The Spitalfields Summer Festival 7.00pm-9.30pm (Installation by Marcus Davidson from 6.00pm) Insight with Scott McMillan (The Liminal), Charles Matthews and Mike...

Field www.field.nu Spire will take place at St. Botolphs without Aldgate on Thursday 21st June 2012 as part of The Spitalfields Summer Festival 7.00pm-9.30pm (Installation by Marcus Davidson from 6.00pm) Insight with Scott McMillan (The Liminal), Charles Matthews and Mike Harding
Performers: Charles Matthews - organ & piano John Beaumont - tenor Marcus Davidson - organ, piano & tape BJ Nilsen - electronics Philip Jeck - turntables & samplers and The Eternal Chord
Programme to include: Charles Camilleri - Sonata Semplice JS Bach - Komm, Heiliger Geist Ligeti - Harmonies Diana Burrell - Lauds Arvo Pärt - Pari Intervallo Marcus Davidson - The Conscious Sky You can book tickets here Tickets: £12 unreserved/£5 Student tickets (further concessions available) Series Tickets Offers: Discounts available when booking three or more concerts
From its earliest inception as the Hydraulis to the latest in organ technology, the organ has had incredible influence on the history of music and sound. Spire celebrates this ‘Emperor of Instruments’ with live performances for organ, electronics, piano and voice, contrasting digital and analogue to create a rich sonic journey unique to each performance location. See Spire in Spitalfields for the first time, visiting St Botolph without Aldgate and its newly restored Harris organ.]]> tag:www.philipjeck.com,2012://6.3428 2012-02-23T16:49:05Z 2012-02-23T16:52:24Z

You can see a film of Philip Jeck performing live at Altmusic, May 23rd 2008 here "I’d been reading The Wire casually for years before I actually got around to hearing Philip Jeck’s music (who’s name-checked in every issue). When...

Field www.field.nu here "I’d been reading The Wire casually for years before I actually got around to hearing Philip Jeck’s music (who’s name-checked in every issue). When I did finally hear it, I was blown away by its visceral aspects. Jeck’s turntablism can be as menacing as Wolf Eyes or as soothing as Popol Vuh, sometimes within the same piece. In terms of sampling, Jeck rarely borrows a whole melody or phrase; instead processing and breaking his source material down into its elemental form—basic building blocks for composition. And perhaps more than any DJ-centric genre, Jeck’s music could be the ultimate example of vinyl fetishism, with the actual music pressed in the grooves at times being less important than the crackles and noises of the wax itself. I guess Christian Marclay is usually credited with bringing turntablism to the avant garde, but it’s Jeck’s music that brings the, well, music." www.self-titledmah.com]]> tag:www.philipjeck.com,2012://6.3423 2012-02-22T15:10:52Z 2012-02-22T15:11:43Z

The resurgence of vinyl in recent years is a phenomenon which has not gone unnoticed; as CD declines sharply, its audio limitations exposed not only by advances in other technologies, but also by the myths propagated at the inception of...

Field www.field.nu ZKM – Karlsruhe, Germany, 21.04.12 Touch presents... Philip Jeck Achim Mohné The Ash International Sound System Studio 672 – Köln, Germany 23.04.12 Touch presents... BJNilsen Achim Mohné The Ash International Sound System]]> tag:www.philipjeck.com,2011://6.3233 2011-10-12T15:29:08Z 2011-10-12T15:29:42Z

You can read an interview with Philip Jeck here...

Field www.field.nu here]]> tag:www.philipjeck.com,2011://6.3141 2011-09-23T11:36:57Z 2011-09-24T12:03:50Z

Merge Festival 16th September - 21st November 2011 Never Records with Philip Jeck & Touch This September, Never Records will open at 11 Southwark St. near London Bridge tube station, as part of Illuminate Production’s Merge festival, sponsored by the...

Field www.field.nu Merge Festival 16th September - 21st November 2011 Never Records with Philip Jeck & Touch This September, Never Records will open at 11 Southwark St. near London Bridge tube station, as part of Illuminate Production’s Merge festival, sponsored by the Tate Modern, and Better Bankside. Philip Jeck will be performing from 8pm The Bear Pit at on 24th September. In the daytime, Touch will be recording at Never Records at 2pm for two hours. Two vinyl cuts will be made of the recording, one for display and listening in the shop and one, the other copy goes to the archives... Never Records is a multi‐media multi‐artist project by New York artist/musician Ted Riederer. Exploring the potential of a record store and record label to unite, educate, and uplift a community through recorded sound, Riederer’s project began in an abandoned Tower Records near Union Square in New York City. In January 2010, Riederer, in collaboration with curators No Longer Empty, created what the Wall Street Journal described as a “mock shop” that served as a “love letter to the dying concept of the record store.” In September 2010, Riederer brought Never Records to the Liverpool Biennial, and expanded upon his original idea by purchasing a vinyl record lathe. He then cut recordings of live performances, including Philip Jeck & Hildur Gudnadottir, inside of record store/performance space, and filled his record store with this library of on site performances. ]]> tag:www.philipjeck.com,2011://6.3203 2011-09-22T09:50:20Z 2011-09-22T09:50:56Z

22.09.11 - Live at The Brücknerhaus – 32:58 - 192 kbps Pic: "The Ghost of Philip Jeck" by Mike Harding Philip Jeck in performance was recorded on 6th September 2011 at The Brücknerhaus, Linz, Austria for Prix Ars Electronica, at...

Field www.field.nu Live at The Brücknerhaus – 32:58 - 192 kbps Pic: "The Ghost of Philip Jeck" by Mike Harding Philip Jeck in performance was recorded on 6th September 2011 at The Brücknerhaus, Linz, Austria for Prix Ars Electronica, at which Philip Jeck was awarded a Distinction for his LP 'Suite: Live in Liverpool' [Touch # Tone 29, 2009]. The multi-channel recording (2 channels off the desk, two in the room) was mixed for TouchRadio by BJNilsen.]]> tag:www.philipjeck.com,2011://6.3181 2011-09-07T14:35:01Z 2011-09-07T14:37:36Z

The Uranus Music Prize // And the winner is… Philip Jeck's An ark for the listener... You can read more about this album here and buy it in the TouchShop...

Field www.field.nu The Uranus Music Prize // And the winner is… Philip Jeck's An ark for the listener... You can read more about this album here and buy it in the TouchShop]]> tag:www.philipjeck.com,2011://6.3175 2011-08-30T11:31:05Z 2011-09-20T16:13:54Z

Live at The Vortex #10 and for tickets Review in The Liminal: But if the first two acts were uneven, and the third rock solid, the evening’s piece de resistance, Philip Jeck, was simply on another planet, to use an...

Field www.field.nu Live at The Vortex #10 and for tickets Review in The Liminal: But if the first two acts were uneven, and the third rock solid, the evening’s piece de resistance, Philip Jeck, was simply on another planet, to use an exhausted cliche (might not be the only one – Jeck’s music has the ability to make me lose my linguistic dexterity somewhat). In comparison to the videos, darting around and occasional posturing of the preceding trio, the Liverpool-based artist’s performance was understated, as he remained seated throughout in front of his mixing console, effects pedals and pair of battered-looking turntables. Eyes half-closed, seemingly lost in his music from the off, Jeck projected an aura of calmness and contemplation that had the audience, certainly me, rapt. Comparisons to current The Wire cover star Christian Marclay are misleading but inevitable, given their common use of weathered vinyl to create avant-garde compositions, but for my money (and having seen both live), there is something so much more seductive and powerful about the Briton’s compositions, which is saying something. As the LPs wobbled and span on themselves, Jeck delicately twisted knobs and pressed buttons in front of him, creating an almost solid cloud of sound that poured into the room, filling every space around me, and inside me, unfathomable crackles, wooshes, haunting half-melodies and troubled drones engulfing me with every twist of his wrists or toggle of the stylus. This was sound not so much being played as sculpted, Jeck’s thoughtful manipulations smoothing out rough edges or creating unexpected jagged ones with an intuition worthy of Michelangelo faced with a slab of marble. Hyperbole? Maybe, but it’s hard not to when hearing and seeing Philip Jeck live. Above all, where Philip Jeck elevates himself above the night’s other performers, and indeed over a great many modern British and international improvisers, is the unfettered emotion he brings to what could, in other hands, be overly cerebral, even cold, music. Part of this is surely down to the records he chooses, but more than that it’s Jeck’s apparently innate sense of flow, as he slowly builds up layers of sound, before dissipating them into waves of new, quieter ones, and so on. As Jeck’s immaculate sounds rolled out of the speakers and over my senses, I found myself detaching my eyes from the stage to stare out of the window at the rapidly emptying square outside The Vortex. Something in the way the quiet, lamp-lit space glowed in the night, surrounded by darkened buildings and silent vehicles, seemed to reflect the stark, crepuscular music being sculpted in front of me: something melancholic, lonely and beautiful. When I later found myself wandering those streets, with the echoes of crumbling vinyl and quiet distortion still drifting through my head, I felt a strange sort of inchoate peace. Philip Jeck’s music will do that to you. It makes it hard to describe properly in words, which I guess should be your cue to track down his records or go to his next gig. Lucky you.]]> tag:www.philipjeck.com,2011://6.3146 2011-08-17T11:42:48Z 2011-08-17T11:46:53Z

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A special concert for the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, with The Gavin Bryars Ensemble & Philip Jeck. Composed in 1969 and first recorded for Brian Eno’s Obscure label, Gavin Bryars’s The Sinking of the Titanic...

Field www.field.nu A special concert for the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, with The Gavin Bryars Ensemble & Philip Jeck. Composed in 1969 and first recorded for Brian Eno’s Obscure label, Gavin Bryars’s The Sinking of the Titanic was inspired by reports that the ship’s string ensemble continued to play the hymn tune Autumn as the vessel sank in April 1912. Featuring projections of archival images curated by Bill Morrison and Laurie Olinder. Tickets are now available here The CD is still available from the TouchShop...]]> tag:www.philipjeck.com,2011://6.3113 2011-07-07T08:58:33Z 2011-07-07T08:59:35Z

320 kpbs mp3 - 1 track - 35:31 Photography: Sohrab The second in a series of reworkings of Sohrab material by artists, including Philip Jeck, showing solidarity to his cause... all label and artist money goes towards the fund for...

Field www.field.nu Buy Sohrab "You Are Not Alone ll" in the TouchShop www.touchmusic.org.uk/sohrab]]> tag:www.philipjeck.com,2011://6.3107 2011-07-05T10:06:18Z 2011-08-17T10:21:42Z

Kilkenny Arts Festival Tonight’s gig sees two seismic forces at the frontline of modern music team up for an extraordinary sonic voyage. Drums Off Chaos are unlike any other band. Since 1982, Jaki Liebezeit, Reiner Linke and Maf Retter...

Field www.field.nu Kilkenny Arts Festival Tonight’s gig sees two seismic forces at the frontline of modern music team up for an extraordinary sonic voyage. Drums Off Chaos are unlike any other band. Since 1982, Jaki Liebezeit, Reiner Linke and Maf Retter have been creating headspinning storms of multi-layered groove using odd meters and unconventional rhythms. Liebezeit is best known as the beating heart of Can (whose frontman, Damo Suzuki, took the Set by storm last year), and his culture-changing rhythms have been required fuel for the likes of Brian Eno, Chet Baker, Eurythmics and many more. Together, Liebezeit and his fellow master drummers play like a football team talented enough to have stayed in the Premiership for 30 years, improvising on self-made instruments with a sensitivity and fluidity which is nothing short of psychic. This is powerful, hypnotic, life-affirming music. For Kilkenny they team up with award-winning turntable artist and composer Philip Jeck, who creates seductive, crackling soundscapes from salvaged vinyl. It’s a world into which you drift gently, following each thread of melody through veils of repetition and delay. This unique collaboration promises to be one of the most memorable and groundbreaking shows of the festival. Bring your dancing shoes! You can see a clip of this show on youtube]]> tag:www.philipjeck.com,2011://6.3081 2011-06-10T15:45:45Z 2011-06-10T15:48:04Z

Philip Jeck is chuffed to hear his music used in 3rd part of Adam Curtis's latest amazing BBC documentary, which can be seen on iPlayer here. Pieces used included "All That's Allowed" from "Suite: Live in Liverpool" (see below, and...

Field www.field.nu seen on iPlayer here. Pieces used included "All That's Allowed" from "Suite: Live in Liverpool" (see below, and extracts from his latest album, "An Ark for the Listener".]]>