Jan Jelinek

 
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).

(external link : www.janjelinek.com)
 
Jan Jelinek - Social Engineering (vinyl LP)
2024
Faitiche
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 - Live in Luxembourg, December 3rd 2021 (vinyl LP)
2024
Mint.conception.recordings
Four excerpts from a duo concert by Arthur Clees (drums) and Jan Jelinek (live electronics).
Jan Jelinek - Seascape - Polyptych (vinyl LP)
2023
Faitiche
Jan Jelinek's soundtrack for Seascape – polyptych, an audio-visual software developed in collaboration with Canadian new media artist Clive Holden.
Jan Jelinek - Zwischen (vinyl LP)
2023
Faitiche
25.50 17.50 €
A short version of a radio play devised and produced by Jan Jelinek for German public broadcaster SWR2, bringing together twelve sound poetry collages using interview answers by public figures, from Marcel Duchamp to Lady Gaga.
Jan Jelinek - The Raw and the Cooked (vinyl LP)
2021
Faitiche
sold out
An album version of the radio piece Vom Rohen und Gekochten (The Raw and The Cooked) originally composed and produced by Jan Jelinek for the state broadcaster SWR2, bringing together five sound collages that deal with the consistency of material and its mutability.
Jan Jelinek - Triosk Meets Jan Jelinek - 1+3+1 (vinyl LP)
2021
Faitiche
sold out
Remastered edition of Sydney trio Triosk and Jan Jelinek's loop-based jazz project.
Jan Jelinek - Tierbeobachtungen (vinyl LP)
2020
Faitiche
sold out
Jan Jelinek's album Tierbeoachtungen in a limited pressing on vinyl for the first time.


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