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Andrew Pekler Andrew Pekler was born in 1973 in Samarkand Uzbekistan. His family immigrated to the United States in 1980. He has resided in Germany since 1995. Andrew Pekler works with sampling and synthesis to produce texturally rich and sensually evocative sound compositions. Since 2002 he has released solo and collaborative musical works for labels includung Faitiche Kranky Shelter Press and Senufo Editions. Pekler has also produced a number of video and installation works always in combination with sound. Together with cultural anthropologist Kiwi Stefanie Menrath he developed PhantomIslands A SonicAtlas an interactive online map that charts the sounds and histories of a number of islands that were once found on nautical maps but have since disappeared. In addition to his studio productions Andrew Pekler has composed music for theater productions dance performances sound installations film soundtracks and fashion shows. He has presented his music in numerous performances throughout Europe North and South America East Asia and Australia. Jan Jelinek Jelinek s works deal with the transformation of sounds translating source materials from popular music into abstract reduced textures. Bypassing traditional musical instruments he constructs collages using tiny sound fragments from a wide variety of recording devices: tape recorders digital samplers media players and the like. The recordings are processed into repetitive loops that boil the original down to its essentials the source material becoming indecipherable in most cases. He began releasing his work in 1998 initially under the pseudonyms Farben and Gramm. In 2000 his sound collages played in the Young Media Pavilion at the EXPO2000 world s fair in Hannover. Over the following years he worked with artists like Sarah Morris and the German writer Thomas Meinecke collaborated with the Japanese improvisation ensemble Computer Soup and the Australian jazz trio Triosk and created audio visual performances with video artist Karl Kliem at venues including the Centre Pompidou in Paris. In 2007 with Andrew Pekler and Hanno Leichtmann he founded the improvisation trio Groupshow that refuses any repertoire and any limitation on performance duration. In 2008 Jelinek established the Faitiche label as a platform for his own experiments for joint projects and for work by musician friends. The releases include collaborations with the vibraphonist Masayoshi Fujita Japanese sound artist Asuna Frank Bretschneider Beispiel and the work of fictional sound researcher Ursula Bogner whose scores drawings and writings have been presented and performed around the world. Since 2012 Jelinek has been writing and producing experimental radio pieces for state broadcaster SWR that deal with fictional identities and soundscapes. Many of his radio plays have been honoured with awards. The theme of fictional and multiple identities runs through the whole of the Faitiche catalogue. Under the pseudonym Gesellschaft zur Emanzipation des Samples GES as Ursula Bogner or using his own name Jelinek s oeuvre ranges from field recording collage to electroacoustic music to minimalistic drone. What these various works all have in common is improvised live processing of previously collected sound material. In his current live performances Jan Jelinek weaves diverse sound materials into Ecstatic Sound Collages as he calls it himself.
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