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ARTIST
JELINEK, JAN
TITLE
Soundtrack for SEASCAPE - polyptych
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
FAITICHE
CATALOG #
FAITICHE 031LP
FAITICHE 031LP
GENRE
SOUNDTRACK
RELEASE DATE
5/19/2023
One of the most notorious hatemongers in movie history is
Captain Ahab
from
John Huston
's 1956 classic
Moby Dick
. His manic monologues cast a spell on generations of viewers. Berlin based musician and sound artist Jan Jelinek has now turned the voice of Ahab into a musical instrument. Faitiche presents
Jan Jelinek
's soundtrack for
SEASCAPE - polyptych
, an audio-visual software developed in collaboration with Canadian new media artist
Clive Holden
in 2022.
SEASCAPE - polyptych
is based on image and acoustic source material from
Moby Dick
. While Holden works on manipulating film sequences, the voice of Ahab plays a central role in Jan Jelinek's soundtrack. The dynamic volume and tone of the captain's speech control a synthesizer system that turns Ahab's voice into ten abstract soundscapes. In this production the voice gives the impulse and controls things but is not the sound of spoken word itself that you hear. Only occasionally can snippets of speech be heard so that syllables or sounds are recognizable. Instead, you hear compositions made of hissing, soundscapes, and eruptive sounds. The atmosphere is dark and sinister. Still every piece has a clear sonic structure and follows an understandable dramatic composition. This music is abstract but not overwhelming. Quite the opposite,
SEASCAPE - polyptych
is an invitation to listeners to let themselves be carried by the stream of sonic events. Although part of a media art work, the soundtrack can be enjoyed without any of this connecting superstructure. It works with no previous knowledge. But what happens when one does know that it's the sonic waves of a human voice that is controlling a network of synthesizers? If you want to hear Ahab, you will hear a choir of Ahabs in every piece of sound. The subliminal threatening as well as the conjuring Ahab. Finally, the Ahab who whips up his crew and tears them with him into their downfall. The majestic "on the quay now, waiting and watching", the oppressive "drawn towards the whirlpools center" -- they are all music as well as sonic discourse. Includes download code.
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