14.10.2024
Roméo Poirier & Jan Jelinek, North America concerts
Romeo Poirier will be touring North America at the end of October / beginning of November. Brooklyn, Montréal and Toronto is a double bill / faitiche showcase with Jan Jelinek. Oct 26 Philadelphia, Oct 27 San Antonio, Oct 28 Austin, Oct 30 Denver, Nov 01 Los Angeles, Nov 03 Portland, Nov 04 Minneapolis, Nov 06 Chicago, Nov 08 Boston. With Jan Jelinek: Nov 10 Brooklyn, Nov 15 Montréal Nov 16 Toronto. Jan Jelinek solo: Nov 13 Chicago
Roméo Poirier - North America tour, 2024
11.10.2024
Andrew Pekler for Issey Miyake
Andrew Pekler produced & performed an exclusive soundtrack for Issey Miyake's Spring / Summer 2025 collection The Beauty of Paper - presented in Paris on Sept 27th 2024. Check the full presentation here.
Issey Miyake image film (filmstill), 2024
06.10.2024
Phonurgia Nova Awards 2024
Jan Jelinek's radio work Korridor is on the shortlist for Prix Art Sonore / Phonurgia Nova Awards 2024. Public and free listening sessionis on Nov 13-16 2024, in Marseille, France. (complete program / more information here).
Phonurgia Nova Awards 2024, 29th edition
22.09.2024
faitiche edition (concerts on tape)
New series of concerts on tape cassette. The recordings are not available digitally. faitiche edition no.1 is a concert by Sven-Åke Johansson and Jan Jelinek for seven dictaphones and a Turkish cymbal at Galerie Sexauer, Berlin - Sept 27th 2023. more
artwork (front) for faitiche edition no.1, layout by Tim Tetzner
Sven-Åke Johansson & Jan Jelinek: Concert for seven dictaphones and a Turkish cymbal (excerpt), faitiche 2023
17.09.2024
Folk Wisdom - Booking Agency
New booking agency: all concert / performance requests for Jan Jelinek & colllaborations will be handled by Folk Wisdom from now on. Be sure to check out their Instagram account to see future concert announcements.
Arthur Clees & Jan Jelinek, Live in Luxembourg 2024 - photo by Erik Mathias
06.09.2024
Temple of Faitiche (September 2024)
New season for Faitiche's bimonthly radio show on LYL: Label founder and producer Jan Jelinek portraits Japanese composer & sound artist SUGAI KEN for the first half, Ken responses with his own mix/collage/selection for the second. On air September Friday 13th, 14:00-15:00. Available afterwards as Mixcloud stream.
Dohm, Garnier, Le Bon, Ostende: Diorama, 2017 (photo: Richard Barnes - Man with Buffalo)
31.08.2024
Ulla & Jan Jelinek: Live at Funkhaus, Berlin
Short excerpt of a live improvisation by Ulla and Jan Jelinek on the occasion of a Giegling night, March 29th 2024 in Berlin.
The Funkhaus stage (Saal 1) during the soundcheck - our protagonists are not in the photo, 2024
Ulla & Jan Jelinek: live at funkhaus, March29th2024 (edit, excerpt), 2024
20.08.2024
Zwischen: Jonathan Messe
Excerpt from Jan Jelinek's Zwischen (radio work, original version) that didn't make it onto the album (same title). Voice by Bodo Primus.
Eikmeyer, Mampe: Jonathan Meese 1970-2023, 2023
Jan Jelinek: Joseph Beuys wanted to open up art colleges to everyone, you find this educational institution completely superfluous. Why, Jonathan Messe?, 2017
10.07.2024
Andrew Pekler, Japan tour and soundtrack
Andrew Pekler will perform SG in Japan (July 21st Tokyo at Polaris, 26th Kyoto at Soto, 28th Osaka at Slowmotion @ Compufunk Records, August 7th Fukuoka at Kyushu University Acoustic Research Center). Watch also Kazuhiro Terauchi 's short film Almost Blue - nocturnal skateboarding shots in the streets of Tokyo with music by SG.
Almost Blue by Kazuhiro Terauchi (film still), 2024
06.07.2024
Beispiel: Live at Zwinglikirche, Berlin
Live improvisation (excerpt) by Beispiel (Frank Bretschneider & Jan Jelinek) at Zwinglikirche Berlin, June 13th 2024 - on the occasion of Audiovisionen / Kulturraum Zwingli-Kirche e.V. Berlin.
photo by F. Bretschneider (left) and J. Jelinek (right), 2024
Beispiel: Live at Zwinglikirche (excerpt), 2024
27.06.2024
Roméo Poirier: Muscle de sable remix - live in Katowice
Listen to a live version of Muscle de sable - Jan Jelinek remix (remixed by Roméo Poirier) - performed live at Solar Festiwal in Katowice (Poland) on March 31st 2024.
Clark: Pierro dell Francesca, London 1969
Roméo Poirier: Muscle de sable (remix's remix by Roméo Poirier), live at Solar Festiwal, Katowice, March 31st 2024
08.06.2024
Temple of Faitiche (June 2024)
Faitiche's bimonthly radio show on LYL: Label founder and producer Jan Jelinek portraits Japanese microsound composer & sound artist Miki Yui for the first half, Miki responses with her own mix/collage/selection for the second. On air June Friday 21st, 14:00-15:00. Available afterwards as Mixcloud stream.
Rolf Julius: Small Music (grau), 1995
03.06.2024
Mark Templeton: Two Verses
Faitiche is thrilled to welcome Mark Templeton with his album Two Verses (faitiche 37), release: Sept 27th 2024. Format: LP/DL. For his debut on Faitiche, the media artist browsed his old hard drives and invited Andrew Pekler to listen through and co-produce a selection of unreleased works. more
Mark Templeton: Two Verses, artwork by Dmytro Nikolaienko, 2024
Mark Templeton: Closing/Scene (faitiche 37), 2024
14.05.2024
SEASCAPE - polyptych installation, Berlin
Wenn die Sirenen heulen (handle with care), exhibition including work by Zuzanna Czebatul, Richard Green, Anne Mundo, Ivonne Thein, Raul Walch and an a/v installation by Clive Holden & Jan Jelinek (SEASCAPE - polyptych) - Alte Feuerwache, Marchlewskistr. 6, 10243 Berlin. May 18th - July 14th 2024, Opening Friday May 17th, 19:00.
Holden & Jelinek: SEASCAPE - polyptych, film still (b/w converted), 2023
07.05.2024
blackbody_radiation: hy_jet
blackbody_radiation submits a permutative fugue inspired by preoccupations of three unlikely topics – Taylorism, Utility and Leisure. Listen to and peek under the sonic wanderings of Infrastructure.
James Malton: The Young Painter's Maulstick (1800)
blackbody_radiation: hy_jet (2024)
22.04.2024
Jan Jelinek: Kosmischer Pitch (album reissue)
Vinyl reissue of Jan Jelinek's album Kosmischer Pitch is ready for Winter 2024/2025, including a previously unreleased piece (digital only) from this period. Orignally released on scape in 2005, the reissue comes with a folded insert (b/w print) reproducing the original gatefold inner sleeve. Format: LP/DL
original artwork (inner sleeve) 2005, photo by Kai von Rabenau
Jan Jelinek: Lemminge Und Lurchen Inc. (faitback 06, 2005)
08.04.2024
Jan Jelinek: Social Engineering (album)
Coming soon: Jan Jelinek - Social Engineering (faitiche 36), release: May 3rd 2024. Format: LP/DL. 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. more
Jan Jelinek: Social Engineering, artwork by Tim Tetzner, 2024
Jan Jelinek: Social Engineering 3 (ALERT!) (faitiche 36, 2024)
30.03.2024
Temple of Faitiche (April 2024)
Faitiche's bimonthly radio show on LYL: Label founder and producer Jan Jelinek portraits US-American composer Madalyn Merkey for the first half, Madalyn responses with her own mix/collage/selection for the second. On air April Friday 12th, 14:00-15:00. Available afterwards as Mixcloud stream.
Sandra Danicke: Für immer, Leben mit Provisorien, 2021
22.03.2024
SG: Rain Revisited (Remixes by Salenta + Topu & Jamie Hodge)
Following the release of the SG's For Lovers Only / Rain Suite, Andrew Pekler asked Jamie Hodge and Salenta + Topu to interpret pieces from the album. Lastly, Andrew Pekler himself added a new track. Many thanks to the contributors Jamie Hodge and Salena + Topu! Release: April 12th 2024, format: digital only. More very soon.
SG: Rain Revisited, artwork by Dmytro Nikolaienko, 2024
SG (Andrew Pekler): Waiting For The Tide (faitiche 33+), 2024
29.02.2024
Korridor
German SWR2 premiers a new radio work by Jan Jelinek: Korridor. A 40-minute sound collage dedicated to the clandestine acoustics of corridors. Premiere: March 9th 2024, 23:03. Available afterwards as free stream & download for 12 months here.
hotel corridors (variations), 2024
Jan Jelinek: Korridor (excerpt), 2024
01.02.2024
Temple of Faitiche (February 2024)
Faitiche's bimonthly radio show on LYL: Label founder and producer Jan Jelinek with a special feature about Electroacoustic Music from Latin-America. On air February Friday 9th, 14:00-15:00. Available afterwards as Mixcloud stream.
Lauren Hinkson: Josef Albers in Mexico, 2018
22.01.2024
Giuseppe Ielasi: Rhetorical Islands
1st album announcement for 2024: Giuseppe Ielasi - Rhetorical Islands (faitiche 35), release: Mar 1st 2024. Vinyl/digital edition of the album Rhetorical Islands, originally released by Giuseppe Ielasi in 2012 as a limited-edition CD on his Senufo Editions label, with recordings made in 2011 as a commission for l’Audible Festival, Paris. more
Giuseppe Ielasi: Rhetorical Islands, artwork by Tim Tetzner, 2024
Giuseppe Ielasi: 06 (faitiche 35, 2024)
11.01.2024
Zwischen by Trip Shrubb
2024 starts with a sinister/criminalistic remix version of Zwischen by Trip Shrubb. In Trip Shrubb aka Michael Beckett's words: more
Jan Jelinek: Zwischen (for 5 dictaphones), installation, photo by Udo Siegfriedt 2019
Trip Shrubb: Zwischen Zwischen, 2023