Touch presents...Philip Jeck / Achim Mohné / The Ash International Sound System
As part of their 30th anniversary live events series taking place throughout 2012, Touch is proud to present Vinyl+ at zkm a night of challenging and entertaining performances.
Play "VINYL+, Live at ZKM, Karlsruhe 21st April 2012" (Touch Radio # 77)
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Philip Jeck 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 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 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 [2000]. In 2010 Philip won The Paul Hamlyn Foundation Composers Award. 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. You can hear his live TouchRadio episode, Live at The Brucknerhaus, here - http://www.touchradio.org.uk/touch_radio_69_philip_jeck.html
Philip Jeck 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 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 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 [2000]. In 2010 Philip won The Paul Hamlyn Foundation Composers Award. 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. You can hear his live TouchRadio episode, Live at The Brucknerhaus, here - http://www.touchradio.org.uk/touch_radio_69_philip_jeck.html
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Achim Mohné started working with record players and other "sound-media-apparatus" in the mid '90's. He experiments with the space and time intervals of sound-media and is especially interested in the "music that lies hidden in the medium itself". He subjects the support material to a forensic autopsy, for example, by analysing the dust particles inside an ending vinyl groove. Achim composes records (but one will not hear any reproduced music) to a music that comes out of the medium. Using a triple vinyl deck set-up, his analytic auditory observations of ending grooves - all grooves sound different, depending on how dust has effected and transformed the soft surface of the vinyl - convert tiny dust particles into a "sound sculpture". http://www.touchradio.org.uk/touch_radio_50_achim_mohne.html
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Ash International has been perceived as the R&D section of Touch, and this is indeed partly true... but it doesn't tell the whole story. Ash International was unleashed onto an unsuspecting world in early 1993 - electronic communications, radio emissions and other natural frequencies are an endless source of material for their releases... No stone is left unturned, with studies of EVP, wax cylinder and CD, and other unknown sound source recordings all part of the "label"'s remit. Its an audio experiment which dovetails into the history of sound recording and beyond... http://www.ashinternational.com/
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Ash International has been perceived as the R&D section of Touch, and this is indeed partly true... but it doesn't tell the whole story. Ash International was unleashed onto an unsuspecting world in early 1993 - electronic communications, radio emissions and other natural frequencies are an endless source of material for their releases... No stone is left unturned, with studies of EVP, wax cylinder and CD, and other unknown sound source recordings all part of the "label"'s remit. Its an audio experiment which dovetails into the history of sound recording and beyond... http://www.ashinternational.com/
