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previous artist: jazzkammer		there are 3 titles featuring philip jeck in stock. they are listed below.		next artist: jel

$14.51

back in stock as of
january 24th, 2012

first in stock on
october 19th, 2006

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playback-music

touch (uk) #to:56 cd

philip jeck “stoke” compact disc

above (5:59)
lambing (4:48)
vienna faults (6:08)
pax (8:09)
below (7:32)
open (5:57)
close (14:54)

touch press release...

touch # to:56
cd
7 tracks - 53:32

with its acrobatic athleticism and penchant for charming gimmicks, in all likelihood hiphop will indefinitely dominate the field of turntablism. even record-spinning abstractionists like christian marclay and martin tetrault, who may not always share hiphop's necessity for the beat, put on flashy demonstrations that engage the machismo of technique, alongside their critically minded recombinations of cultural readymades. while philip jeck's performances, installations, and recordings have centred around his arsenal of turntables (at last count, he was up to 180 antique dansette record players, though more normally he performs on two or three, and a minidisc recorder), he isn't terribly interested in the contemporary discourse of turntablism, preferring to coax a haunted impressionism with those tools. however as a calculating improvisor, he shares affinities with the turntable community. once he is in control of the overall context of the music, he leaves much to the spontaneous reaction towards sound at any given moment.

a typical jeck composition moves at an incredibly lethargic pace through a series of looped drone tracks caught in the infinities of multiple locked grooves. as he prefers to use old records on his antique turntables, the inevitable surface noise crackles into gossamer rhythms of pulsating hiss. occasionally, jeck intercedes in his ghostly bricolage with a slowly rotated foreground element - a disembodied voice, a melody, or simply a fragment of non-specific sound - which spirals out of focus through a warm bath of delay. for almost ten years now, jeck has been developing this methodology, building up to stoke, his strongest work to date. its opening passages are on a par with his vinyl coda series, with jeck effortlessly transforming grizzled surface noise into languid atmosphere.but stoke really gets going with the breathtakingly simple construction of pax, upon which jeck overlays an aerated ambient wash with the time-crawling repetition of a single crescendo from an unknown female blues singer. by downpitching her voice from the intended 78 rpm to 16 rpm, he amplifies its emotional tenor by making her drag out her impassioned declarations of misery far longer than is humanly possibly. the effect is just beautiful. philip jeck has always been good, but stoke makes him great. [jim haynes]

$9.01

back in stock as of
december 8th, 2008

first in stock on
april 20th, 2004

threads:
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psych-prog
playback-music
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modern-composition
minimalism-drones
harsh-noise
electro-acoustic-improvisation
electro-acoustic-composition
digital-musics
free-improvisation
printed-matter

the sound projector (uk) #tsp 12 mag

“the sound projector 12th issue 2004” magazine

articles & interviews with those mentioned below
hundreds of record reviews

the sound projector is a steam-powered tank rumbling through the suburbs in the dead of night, hell-bent on sorting all this u-bahn musical activity STRAIGHT. edited, laid out, designed, printed, and almost entirely written by one ed pinsent, a +/- 150~ page issue comes out once a year... the whole thing’s chock with pure information laid out in a practical manner, very much a joy to behold (the enthusiasm mr.p shares for the subject in question comes across in droves). highly recommended for those of you on the rise within the experimental underground ranks and/or the aging denizen who (like me) pines for the era of fanzines (don’t you spend enough damn time in front of your computer screen as it is? i hear paper’s making a comeback).

each issue is divided into a series of themed review columns with titles like “in the art gallery” (modern composition), “atoms of pure noise” (noise), “cakehole activity” (rap and hip-hop), “the crackling esther” (electronica), “the discurator's den” (comps), “the droning ones” (drones), “environmental and documentary recordings” (self-explanatory), “mutating into a microchip” (computer and laptop music), “tape maschines maken” (manipulations of a greasy source sound), “free jazz” , “the gorgeous harmonic”, etc...

as you can gather from that list this comes the closest in concept to exactly what i’m trying to do with this shop here... to simply document and cherry-pick the interesting bits non-denominationally from the trail-vapors of music-at-large. we all need to chip in and buy this guy a cake, the best way for you to contribute would be to simply buy an issue here...

the sound projector press release...

!!a black kammer-konzert for the eyes!! the sound projector music magazine 12th. 2004 has never looked so much like a bunch of violent honeysuckle!.

you want mangled footwear? surprise me good, charlie! sock me kindly in the nose bubba! 158pp! digital printing! fully indexed! el lissitzky parody cover! 158pp - published march 2004

a strange mixture of ill-fitting and frequently bewildering interviews: peter stampfel - the veteran usa songster, philip jeck - modern uk master of the avant-turntable, lasse marhaug - the norwegian god of roaring noise, greg kelley - american underground trumpet nose-blaster and all-around longhair, guilty connector - the young, well-meaning but strangely ineffectual japanese obnoxio-noise merchant, jean-marc foussat - shy algerian makes good with his lips, and through mastery of the vcs3, paul winstanley - murmuring vaguely about his obscure solo electronic / improv projects in new zealand

records reviewed in sound projector categories: american loons, atoms of pure noise, in the art gallery, burning emptiness, the discurator's den, the droning ones, electro-acoustic, the crackling esther, field recordings plus, free 103.9 radio, guitar music, improvised music, japan, rock music, smashings and slicings, sound poetry, we are curious (fellows) - sound art from sweden , world music

$18.01

back in stock as of
november 8th, 2011

first in stock on
june 22nd, 2005

threads:
digital-musics
minimalism-drones
modern-composition

touch (uk) #tone 21 cd
touch tone (uk) #tone 21 cd

“spire - live in geneva cathedral saint pierre” double compact disc set

marcus davidson - opposites attract (10:05)
marcus davidson - psalm for organ 3 (1:24)
andré jolivet - hymne à l'universe (11:58)
liana alexandra - consonances lll (6:52)
henryk gorécki* - kantata for organ op. 26 (15:42)
bjnilsen - la petite chapelle - rues basses (29:59)
philip jeck - the crypt (44:14)
fennesz - la petite chapelle - morning (24:49)

touch press release...

st. pierre cathedral, geneva, was the crucible of the reformation in 1534…

the second release in the spire series [cf spire, organ works past, present & future, touch # tone 20, 2004] is more than a document of ‘spire live’, which took place as part of la batie 2004, at st. pierre cathedral, geneva, on 5th september 2004. curated by eric linder, from la batie, and mike harding, the dynamism of the event, where the audience rotated between 3 separate venues within the cathedral precinct, is reflected in the individual recordings: philip jeck goes heavy metal in the crypt: bjnilsen comes over all moody in the side chapel, and fennesz soothes and seduces in the same place.

all this is set up by charles matthews and marcus davidson on the main organ [4 manifolds, computer operated] which dominates the time and place. davidson plays gorécki's extraordinary kantata for organ, [full stops on max employed here] which segués into bjnilsen's ultra-heavy live organ and electronics next door. this follows charles matthews's excellent renditions of pieces by jolivet and alexandra which, as the text by thierry charollais says: "the event seemed provoking and iconoclastic in contrast to the severe and austere atmosphere of the cathedral. though some of the musical pieces were audacious, the music focused mainly on spirituality. it generated a different perception of the organ pieces, thus modifying our perception of the cathedral and making the event truly exceptional."

and to finish, fennesz soothed us with sound. his set evoked the rolling centuries in all their pain and beauty, leaving us at once becalmed and energised, but never oppressed under the weight of time.

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