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ARTIST
VAN BEBBER/PHILIP JECK, CLAUS
TITLE
Viny'l'isten
FORMAT
CD
LABEL
INTERMEDIUM
CATALOG #
INTER 015
INTER 015
GENRE
ELECTRONIC
RELEASE DATE
10/28/2002
"Recording of their performance at 'Intermedium 2', March 2002. Each of them solo for 15/20 minutes and as a duo for another 30 minutes. Great one!" "On their prepared sound recording media Claus van Bebber (*1949) and Philip Jeck (*1952) decipher a vinyl requiem, a swan-song of incredible beauty using obsolete reproductive instruments. Many a single dies on their turntables undergoing strange torments. 'After two or three revolutions these pointed fish-hooks have already scratched out fine elements, and the number grows with each new revolution, until the music has almost completely disappeared' (Claus van Bebber). Philip Jeck's record-players -- he has several hundred -- come from the flea market. They bear the names Pye, Bush, Philips, Ferguson, Fidelity or Dansette, they have built-in loudspeakers and four speeds. None of them cost more than five pounds. 'These record-players -- nobody else wants them. I'm the only one who collects them all, as far as I know. I painted them and did things with them. They're now worth even less than when I bought them. I recycle these things and give them a different life.' That's what the two have in common: they don't throw anything away. Claus van Bebber, who calls his performance Schallplattenkonzert (Record Concert), also has barns full of materials on his farm on the Lower Rhine: 'I started early on to collect all possible kinds of objects and my favourite artists were always those who worked with found materials. Fluxus and Dadaism have strongly influenced me and my artistic work.' Their common sound ideal is the opposite of high fidelity. Jeck's effect devices are cheap: a small echo pedal and a toy sampler which can store one and a half seconds of sound. They are used to blur the sound even more, to overlay the loops on the discs with additional layers of repetition. Van Bebber uses wah-wah and distortion pedals for electric guitarists to further modify the signals of his crystal pick-ups. In this first encounter between two broken music artists at the media art festival intermedium 2 a fusion of the medium and the message takes place: Low-tech becomes the moving obituary for the extinct world of vinyl, that material whose varied surface noises stood for an era of easier comprehensibility. 'Where are we going? .... Don't be so curious, little Piccolo! First to the other side of the record.' (Andre Popp: Piccolo, Sax & Co)." --Ulrich Bassenge
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