Jan Jelinek: Lady Gaga, (...) Is Fashion As Important To You As Music? by faitiche published on 2018-02-21T18:45:11Z Lady Gaga, you once said in an interview that you write music for the fashion industry. Is fashion as important to you as music? - Artist/Album: Jan Jelinek presents Zwischen Format: LP Vinyl/DL Label#: faitiche17 Release date: May 4th 2018 Faitiche is delighted to release a short version of the radio play Zwischen (German for ‘between’). Devised and produced by Jan Jelinek for German public broadcaster SWR2, Zwischen brings together twelve sound poetry collages using interview answers by public figures. Each collage consists of the brief moments between the spoken words: silences, pauses for breath and hesitations in which the interviewees utter non-semantic sound particles. These voice collages also control a synthesizer, creating electronic sounds that overlay and merge with the voices to make twelve acoustic structures. We all know the speaker’s fate: you falter, you mispronounce, there are breaks, silences and false starts. This results in delays, a language noise compared by Roland Barthes to the knocks made by a malfunctioning motor. Such gaps can be disconcerting, standing as they do for a failure of the speaker’s rhetorical skills. But what happens when they become a constitutive, poetic factor? Zwischen consists of twelve answers to twelve questions. The answers were all recorded in interview situations. From the speech of the interviewees – all eloquent public figures – the pauses are extracted and edited together. The result is a series of sound collages of silence. But this silence is deceptive, as it is only meaning that falls silent. What remains audible is an archaic body language: modes of breathing, planning phases, seething word particles in search of sense that can break out into onomatopoeic tumult or drift off into sonorous noise. In a further step, each of the twelve collages controls a modular synthesizer via its amplitude and frequency. Supposedly defective speech acts conduct synthetic sounds and the speakers regain their composure – not via the spoken word, but through sound. The opening questions in the various interviews are answered by: Alice Schwarzer, John Cage, Hubert Fichte, Slavoj Žižek, Joseph Beuys, Lady Gaga, Ernst Jandl, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Marcel Duchamp, Friederike Mayröcker, Yoko Ono and Max Ernst. Genre Electronic Comment by MadCrudelio send 2023-09-03T13:44:10Z Comment by Claudio Esteban !!!!! 2019-12-27T02:41:12Z Comment by enternet boy 👌 2019-08-25T14:11:32Z Comment by Instinct Primal interesting 2019-01-25T02:05:55Z Comment by rbt-mrtnmr eiayai 2018-07-13T21:19:31Z Comment by Zesknel @vulkanski: `-) 2018-05-03T22:06:07Z Comment by deraawaqe wonderful 2018-05-02T22:35:13Z Comment by Rest Function beautiful 2018-04-02T03:36:47Z Comment by G A Z E Oh Jan I'm so very excited, for whatever you're gonna be bringing out. Few things excite me but new stuff from you really hypes me up. Loop Finding Jazz Records is literally the only album I ever bought in my life, because I love it SO much. 2018-03-30T13:18:37Z Comment by There's too much Cant wait! 2018-03-18T05:47:18Z Comment by Valery Mironov Interesting idea 2018-03-01T08:44:59Z