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Social Engineering (vinyl LP)

Jan Jelinek - Social Engineering (vinyl LP)
Social Engineering brings together thirteen text fragments from so-called phishing emails. Using speech synthesis, they are spoken, sung, and/or transformed into abstract textures. The result is a 36-minute language and sound collage devoted to the dark forces of phishing.
Jan Jelinek is a German electronic musician who also operates under the names Farben, Gramm, The Exposures and Gesellschaft Zur Emanzipation Des Samples. His work, which emerged in the early 2000s with pioneering albums such as Loop-Finding-Jazz-Records and Textstar (Farben), whose minimalist, glitchy, organic aesthetic and reduction of the rhythmic elements of club music strongly marked the era, has developed into experiments based on sound transformation, dealing with the transformation of sounds, translating source materials from popular music into abstract, reduced textures. Jelinek 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.
He is the founder of the German record label Faitiche.

See also Gesellschaft Zur Emanzipation Des Samples; Farben; Beispiel (Frank Bretschneider & Jan Jelinek); Groupshow (Jan Jelinek, Hanno Leichtmann & Andrew Pekler).
 
published in June 2024
 
24.00
 
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