Live

All Time Low Presents:

Oren Ambarchi
Philip Jeck
Elite Barbarian
Plus DJs Graham Erickson and Alex Jako

July 1st 2010
Doors 7.30pm
Corsica Studios,
4/5 Elephant Road
London SE17 1LB

www.corsicastudios.com
www.alltimelowproductions.com

Cappella di Sant’Uberto, Torino

Philip Jeck è un compositore, coreografo e artista multimediale di origine inglese. Dopo aver studiato arti visive al Dartington College of Arts a Devon in Inghilterra ha iniziato a esplorare i territori della musica elettronica nei primi anni Ottanta componendo colonne sonore per numerosi spettacoli teatrali e di danza. Artista tra i più avventurosi della scena del Regno Unito, con Il passare del tempo Jeck è diventato una figura di riferimento prima nel panorama europeo poi in quello mondiale raccogliendo consensi soprattutto in Giappone e negli Stati Uniti. Jeck ha definito un mondo sonoro dalla particolare fisionomia: straordinario manipolatore di suoni e musiche preesistenti, l’artista crea la musica usando frammenti dai vecchi dischi di vinile che colleziona con passione ed ha definito una musicalità riconoscibile per il flusso avvolgente ed ininterrotto. Il suo interesse per i giradischi ed i dischi lo ha portato a creare alcune installazioni di grande rilievo nel mondo dell’arte contemporanea, come “Vinyl Requiem”, per la quale erano utilizzati contemporaneamente 180 giradischi degli anni ’50 e ’60 (e che ha vinto il Premio Time Out Performance del 1993), come “Off The Record”, realizzata usando da 6 a 80 giradischi nell’ambito di Sonic Boom alla Hayward Gallery a Londra nel 2000.

Parallelamente alle sue installazioni ha proseguito il cammino interessandosi ai delay per chitarra, alle tastiere elettroniche ed ai giradischi approdando ad una musica visionaria ed onirica, in cui disegna con i suoni creazioni che si materializzano all’improvviso, che coinvolgono e spiazzano il pubblico dei suoi concerti. Dal vivo Jeck agisce come un artista visivo, plasmando i suoni in diretta versando colla sulla superficie dei dischi di vinile che utilizza, creando sequenze di loop, sussurri melodici infrante da percussioni violente.

[pic: Mike Harding]

GRAILS
Philip Jeck, Invisible Bees

Tickets available here

Arctic Circle – The Resonance of Music with Water
Kings Place, 80 York Way, London NW1

Philip Jeck
Time: 20:00
Venue: Hall One
An Ark for the Listener, a new work inspired by Gerard Manley Hopkins’ poem The Wreck Of The Deutschland.

“An aspiration in answer to an inspiration,
out of music shaped by all the sea has claimed,
as is the inevitable shipwreck of our existence.
Salvaged out of vinyl, by way of ear, hand and electricity.”
“And I have asked to be… out of the swing of the sea.” (G M Hopkins)

Thursday 25 February
Time: 20:00
Venue: Hall One

Hauschka with Hildur Guðnadóttir

Haushka is the alias of Dusseldorf keyboardist Volker Bertelman. His critically-acclaimed albums on the 130701 imprint evince a playfully accessible approach to the often austere realm of the prepared piano. Haushka is joined tonight by gifted Icelandic cellist Hildur Guðnadóttir for a major new, aquatically-themed commission.

Friday 26th February
Hildur Gudnadottir
Time: 19:00
Venue: Hall One
Tickets can be booked here

6th Sept. Pestival QEH London 7.30

10th Sept. Nu music Stavanger Norway (and interview with the Wire)

11th. Sept Istanbul Biennial Opening. Istanbul Turkey Antrepo No.3: Meclis-i Mebusan Caddesi (Avenue) Liman Isletmeleri Sahasi – Tophane (just next to Istanbul Modern Museum) at 2130

12th Sept. Nu Music Oslo Norway

26th Sept. Todaysart Den Haag Holland

3rd Oct. Listen to the World! ISCM World New Music Days Goteburg, Sweden

16th Oct Fylkingen Stockholm Sweden Solo Show

17th Oct. Fylkingen Stockholm Sweden. MARYLAND. A Dance/Theatre show with Mary Prestidge and visuals by Lucy Cash, sound by Philip Jeck

18th Oct. Fylkingen Stockholm Sweden, Performance with C M von Hausswolf

22nd-25th Oct. Akademie der Kunste, Berlin Germany. The International Turntable Orchestra with many, many Turntable players from around the Globe.

7th May
The Logen Theatre, Bergen, Norway

16th May
Touch Presents…
with The Gavin Bryars Ensemble, performing The Sinking of the Titanic at The Roundhouse, London

23rd May
Spire
St. Saviour’s Church, Riga

Nov 7th ICIA Arts Theatre
University of Bath
7:30pm
Box office 01225 386777

Nov 15th Night Of The Owl
With The Owl Project, Tim Lambert, Thor Magnussun
A Foundation, Greenland Street, Liverpool
7-11pm ( Free)

Nov 21st Stary Browar, Poznan, Poland
8:00pm
www.last.fm/event/772101

Musee les Abattoirs

POWER PLANT
Liverpool, Calderstones Park
8 – 12 October 2008

Deep in the park, as dusk falls, old gramophones spin glittering sounds whilst clicking insects cast vast moving shadows. Haunting whistles rise and fall and luminous balloons breathe gentle sighs. A Victorian glasshouse shudders, and sparkling flowerbeds
dance to their own tune….

For five nights, the Victorian leisure gardens of CalderstonesPark, Liverpool will be transformed into a bewitching nocturnal world with one of the largest audio visual installations ever to come to Liverpool.

Presented by the Liverpool Culture Company as part of the 2008 European Capital of Culture programme, Power Plant takes over the Park for some magical botanical activities in which sound and light are used to create glitchy insects, dramatic weather, mechanical plants and the sound of the earth’s energy. The gardens and greenhouses will be transformed by 20 different installations, and audiences are invited to wander around this mysterious world.

Light Insectsclustered 20 feet up in trees utter cicada like sounds, their beautiful moving shadows cast on the ground below. Weather balloons implanted with single note harmonicas, breathe out and re-inflate to conjure a natural organ. Bang, a loud pyrotechnic crack of thunder coincides with a brilliant blaze of lightning that cuts through the trees and bushes. A Kinetic Flowerbed of 150 dainty mechanical flowers spin their rainbow of colours in the EnglishGarden. At the centre of this special botanical world, the glasshouse becomes a slowly pulsating beacon of light, casting monstrous shadows of foliage and vegetation coupled by deep rumblings from light synthesisers that conjure the subterranean movements of the earth’s crust.

Power Plant was originally commissioned by Oxford Contemporary Music together with University of Oxford Botanic Gardens. It has been created by Mark Anderson, Anne Bean, Jony Easterby, Kirsten Reynolds, Roguewave and Philip Jeck – artists working at the forefront of creativity The installations heighten the audience’s awareness of sound and light, our primal receptors on high alert in this night time setting.

The project finds inventive ways to use technology, both old and new. Gas jets triggered via electronic sequencing manipulate sound and flame, other more tranquil installations send images of rippling water reflecting onto garden walls.

Power Plant is part of Liverpool’s European Capital of Culture celebrations, programme which has been running throughout 2008. It is the first project that has taken place in CalderstonesPark.

DATES:
Wed 8 – Sun 12 October
LIVERPOOLCalderstonesPark, Menlove Avenue, Mossley Hill, L18 3JD
7.30-10pm 8 Oct: Tickets
£3. Family ticket £9

9-12 Oct: Tickets
£5 / £3 concs & in advance
Family ticket £12 / £9 concs & in advance
On sale from 1 September 2008 from www.liverpool08.com

Notes:
Family ticket: 2 adults + 2 children OR 1 adult + 3 children
No concessionary advance discount. Audiences are advised to bring warm waterproof clothes.
Produced by Simon Chattertonfor Contemporary Music Network

Useful websites:
www.powerplant.org.uk
www.cmntours.org.uk
www.simonchatterton.co.uk
For further press information please contact:
Polly Eldridge / sound uk, P: 020 7375 0025, E: polly@sounduk.net, www.sounduk.net

Now in our 5th year at Summer Sundae, Bathysphere are proud to announce a veritable cornucopia of audio visual delights over all three days of the festival. Featuring some of the best the world of electronica has to offer, the cream of DMU’s music tech students (past and present), a healthy slab of bass heavy dubstep and retina singeing video projections.
In association with DeMontfort University Music, Technology and Innovation Research Centre

10th August Philip Jeck

2030 The Bathysphere Marquee, Summer Sundae Festival, De Montford Hall, Leicester

To mark the centenary of the birth of Norwegian composer Geirr Tveitt, The Hardingtonar festival has invited Spire to contribute various works based on his compositions.
BJNilsen | Philip Jeck | Charles Matthews | Jana Winderen | Marcus Davidson et al. will take part in a live event at various times on 21st June 2008 in Norheimsund, Norway.

You can read more in Ballade here

A programme in English can be found here
A full programme can be downloaded here and tickets can be bought here

July 2nd
Solo concert at the “Organizing -The City SCOS 2008 Conference, Manchester.
The Contact Theatre at 7.00 pm. There are tickets for those not attending the conference at the special price of £5 available in advance from janet.adnams@manchester.ac.uk

July 18th
Playing the soundtrack to MARYLAND, performance/dance by Mary Prestidge, directed by Ulla Kovisto. With dance works by Sue Maclennan. Borough Hall, Greenwich, London SE10, 7.45pm

Fri May 16 – Powerhouse, Brisbane
Sat May 17 – Jade Monkey, Adelaide
Sun May 18 – Toff In Town, Maximum Arousal series, Melbourne
this follows his two appearances in London at atmospheres 2

[Pic: Dave Knapik]

May 8th The Museum of Garden History
May 12th ditto
June 7th The Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol [Venn Festival]

3 October
Performance and morning lecture/demonstration.
Musikprotokoll, Graz, Austria (40th Year)

15 to 19 October
In rehearsal for a new composition of Bernhard Lang, (including guitarist Elliott Sharp) with a performance on 20 Oct at Donaueschingen Festival, Germany

27 October
Performance in Augsburg, Germany
30 October
New performance of Gavin Bryars’s ‘Sinking Of The Titanic’, with Alter Ego. Rome, Italy

Hapzura Sound Festival, Israel

14 December Tel Aviv
15 December Jerusalem