Philip Jeck @ Tusk Festival 2014
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- Опубліковано 24 лис 2014
- Philip Jeck began his artistic life in the visual arts but then was diverted by explorations into using turntables to compose music in the early 1980s. The phrase ‘turntablist’ doesn’t seem quite right for Jeck’s approach to vinyl appropriation though and insight into his technique and its sublime lightness of touch may come from merely examining his table top. Vintage Dansette turntables (he has a store room full of hundreds of them), primitive sampling keyboards and minidisc recorders reveal an artist who’s found the perfect tools for this work - and hearing his compositions really is like being given the keys to a secret garden. The nearest comparisons to the world he creates are possibly the work of Ekkehard Ehlers, Fennesz or Tom Recchion but Jeck’s sound has a tender sumptuousness that’s all his.
In 1993, Philip Jeck and Lol Sargent won the Time Out Performance Award for their Vinyl Requiem, a performance involving 180 Dansettes and numerous projectors. Since then he’s released a raft of great recordings, largely via the Touch label, and developed a great reputation as an unmissable live performer. AT TUSK, Philip Jeck will be performing a piece specially commissioned by the festival.
Just clocked, hes playing a fleetwood mac tune from the album Tusk at Tusk festival. What a genius!
Unless there is some relation between fleetwood mac and Tusk festival that I didn't pick up lol.
So sad to just learn of his death. A great unique artist.
Rest peacefully now, maestro.
love it!!
rip ... so sad
I imagine St Peter got a shock at the Pearly Gates, innit... for Lo! he say what them? And the dude go like their my decks i gotta bring 'em in. And all the twerly wires too, deffo. And St Peter go like OK dude if you need them all to make that heavenly din, then it's OK - I will square it with God - Welcome!!
i love this dude...i wonder what are these turntables
Did you know he had formal training in both 45 and 78 speeds?? He turntabled at Juliard. No one played music that other people composed and recorded like this legend. He did for record-playing what Bach did for actual musicianship
Kind of a quiet show, eh ? Not to take anything away from Philip Jeck, who I think is a true genius, but if he’s exploring a new genre of silent music, he’ll need to spice up his live shows by spitting blood or breathing fire or, I dunno, carving ‘Gimme a fix’ on his chest with a broken bottle.