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Philip Jeck, Les Abattoirs, 2008
© Le Printemps de Septembre, à Toulouse
Photo Frédéric Sheiber
Philip Jeck, Les Abattoirs, 2008
© Le Printemps de Septembre, à Toulouse
Photo Frédéric Sheiber
After studying graphic art, Philip Jeck turned to music in the 1980s. He then started playing with old record decks and electronic devices, creating works halfway between concert and installation. The best known, The Vinyl Requiem (1993, with Lol Sargent) is a performance for 180 record decks, from record-players made in the 1950s and 1960s, 12 slide projectors, and 2 projectors of 35 mm.
Philip Jeck uses decks as instruments, as well as scratches and loops, but his style has nothing to do with DJ-ing. He produces an altogether specific kind of music, based on improvisation, and altered snippets from old records, and creates pieces with sounds that are at once old-fashioned and extremely modern.