Philip Jeck
Philip Jeck (b.1952) lives in Liverpool and 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. .
Philip Jeck - Sand
2008, Touch
Credits: Mastered By - Denis Blackham
Photography - Jon Wozencroft
Notes: "Sand was recorded live in Holland and England in 2006/7 and edited in Liverpool January, 2008 using Fidelity record-players, Casio SK keyboards, Behringer mixer and Sony mini-disc recorders"
"In memory of Phyllis May Jeck (1920-2008)."
Tracklisting:
1 Unveiled (9:16)
2 Chime Again (5:07)
3 Fanfares (5:01)
4 Shining (6:33)
5 Fanfares Forward (4:56)
6 Residue (2:23)
7 Fanfares Over (11:23)