02.08.2026

Jan Jelinek: Warten (Waiting), radio work

German SWR2 premiers a new radio work by Jan Jelinek: Warten (Waiting),  7 audio essays on waiting as an acoustic phenomenon. Premiere: December 31st 2026, 23:03. Available afterwards as free stream & download for 12 months. The excerpt contains The Countdown (timestretch algorithms stretch and compress a New Year’s Eve countdown) and The Hotel Lobby (a baggage carousel hall at London’s Heathrow airport and the lobby of an Amsterdam hotel come together in slow motion to form the soundscape for excerpts from Siegfried Kracauer’s essay “Die Hotelhalle").

photo by Jan Jelinek, 2026