CANCELLED: Philip Jeck (Public Lecture)

Oct 11th Philip Jeck (UK)

Philip Jeck studied visual arts at Dartington College of Arts in the 1970s and has been creating sound with record-players since the early 80s. He has worked with many dance and theatre companies and played with musicians such as Jah Wobble, Steve Lacy, Gavin Bryars (a new version of The Sinking Of The Titanic) and Christian Fennesz.  He has released 8 solo CDs, the last Sand on the Touch label was voted no. 2 album of the year  (2008) by The Wire magazine, and Suite which is vinyl only.  

A new CD An ark for the listener will be released on Sept 21st 2010. His largest work made with Lol Sargent,"Vinyl Requiem" was for 180 record-players, 9 slide-projectors and 2 16mm movie-projectors. It was performed in The Union Chapel, London in 1993 and received a Time Out  Performance Award. Vinyl Coda I-III, a commission from Bavarian Radio in 1999 won the Karl Sczuka Foderpreis for Radio Art. He also still works as a visual artist, usually incorporating sound and has shown installations at The Bluecoat, Liverpool, Hayward Gallery, London, The Hamburger Bahnhof Gallery, Berlin, ZKM, Karlsruhe and The Shanghai Bienalle and has 2 pieces in the Liverpool Biennial 2010. In 2009 he received a Paul Hamlyn Award for Artists. 

Some reviews: "with each new album, British turntablist Philip Jeck seems to be progressing closer and closer to his own warped conception of a kind of vinyl heaven: a place, perhaps, where forgotten records slowly dissolve into space, leaving only a vapour trail of their music hovering in the atmosphere." (stylus) Review of "Sand": “there is a recurring trope in the music of Philip Jeck, one that let’s you know you are in the golden presence of the master: a ghostly distressed drone hanging high in the rafters, which reminds you at once of of piped muzak bouncing undead around the shopping malls of your childhood, or perhaps the fragmented remains of a long since crumbled European symphonic tradition…. It’s all done with turntables. Glorious.” (The Wire)

For further information please see www.philipjeck.com