Artists
Philip Jeck, cymbals
Program
As analogue media wear out, traces of their original state can still be discerned. Broken, obsolete and malfunctioning devices from the days before everything was fully digital can still be used to produce mutilated, partial sounds. This is the starting point for Philip Jeck’s exploratory music. One of the undisputed masters of experimental music, starting with his 1993 composition Vinyl Requiem, Jeck uses turntables from the 1950s and 1960s to illustrate the passing of time as the media of the era gradually cease functioning.
In the hands of Philip Jeck, the manipulation of damaged vinyls is both an elegy and an act of resistance, a balancing act between durability and decay, encroaching on the remnants of a fading culture.
