GAGE 05: Philip Jeck
Philip Jeck works with old records and record players salvaged from junk shops turning them to his own purposes. He really does play them as musical instruments, creating an intensely personal language that evolves with each added part of a record. Philip Jeck makes genuinely moving and transfixing music, where we hear the art not the gimmick.
He started working with record players and electronics in the early 80s and has made soundtracks and toured with many dance and theatre companies as we as well as his solo concert work. His best known work Vinyl Requiem
(with Lol Sargent): a performance for 180 50s/60s record players won Time Out Performance Award for 1993. He has recently created Vinyl Codas I-IV
for Bavarian Radio, Coda II
winning a Karl Sczuka prize for Radio Art. He has also over the last few years returned to visual art making installations using from 6 to 80 record players including Off The Record for Sonic Boom at The Hayward Gallery, London.