Janek Schaefer

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Profile:Janek Schaefer was born in middle England to Polish and Canadian parents in 1970. After preparing sound collages as a boy, Janek's musical career was fractured in his teens when, as head chorister at school, his voice broke. A decade later, while studying architecture at the Royal College of Art, the fragmented noises of a sound activated tape recorder travelling overnight through the British postal system were to re-establish his audio career. That work, titled 'Recorded Delivery,' was made for an exhibition with one time postman Brian Eno. Since then the nature of sound has been his primary area of exploration, resulting in many releases, installations and soundtracks for exhibitions, and most notably performances involving his self built/invented 'Twin' and 'Tri-phonic' turntable [which is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the 'World's Most Versatile Record Player']. Using hybrid analogue and digital techniques to manipulate field recordings with live modified vinyl and found sound in a 'Concrete ruffian style' [The Wire 1998], his most recent work has been examining the role of vinyl as a compositional tool with the 'Skate' LP/installation 'Wow' 7" and the 'On/Off LP'. His studio album, Above Buildings, was released on Fat Cat to considerable praise, [The Guardian newspaper CD of the week]. He formed 'Comae,' the improvisational electro-acoustic duo with Robert Hampson [MAIN] in 1999, with new collaborations due for release soon with Philip Jeck, Rothko, and Gino Zardo [an NY photographer]. Janek runs his own label [audiOh!Recordings] and [website] as well as releasing work with Sub Rosa, Hot Air, Staalplaat, Sirr.ecords, Rhiz, and Diskono. He now operates as a full time sound artist/composer/musician from the audiOh!Room in London.
URLs:http://www.audioh.com
In Groups:Comae
Name Variations: All | Janek Schaefer | J. Schaefer
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Releases:
Rotation & Oscillation (Cass) AudiOh! 1998
Split Series #3 (12") FatCat Records 1998
Out (CD, Album, Dig) (K-RAA-K)³ 1999
Recorded Delivery (7") Hot Air 1999
Above Buildings (CD) FatCat Records 2000
Wow (7") Diskono 2000
On/Off LP (12") AudiOh! 2001
Le Petit Theatre de Mercelis (CD) Audiosphere 2002
Pulled Under (CD) AudiOh! 2002
Sheen (File, MP3, Single, 128) Tu M'p3 2002
Black Immure: {Music From The Casa De Serralves In Twelve Phases} (CD, Album) Sirr 2003
Quality Hotel (CD) Mutek_Rec 2003
Skate / Rink (LP + CD, Mini) AudiOh!, Staalplaat 2003
Weather Report (CD, Mini) Alluvial Recordings 2003
Cold Storage (CD) Defrag Sound Processing 2004
Early Electronic Compositions (7", Ltd) Tonschacht 2004
Orders (12") Apestaartje 2004
Songs For Europe (CD) Asphodel 2004
Migration (CD, Album, Dig) BiP_HOp 2005
Hidden Name (CD, Album) Crónica 2006
In The Last Hour (CD) Room40 2006
Vijftiende Mixer - Location Stories (2x7", Ltd) Stichting Mixer 2006
Recital In The Old Library (File, MP3, 160) AudiOh! 2007
Alone At Last (CD, Album) Sirr 2008
Extended Play (Triptych For The Child Survivors Of War And Conflict) (CD, Album, Ltd) Line 2008
Production:
Comae (CD) Rhiz Records 2001
Melatonin: Meditations On Sound In Sleep (2xCD, Comp) Love Song Room40 2004
Appears On:
Social Electrics (CD) Dog Day Cicada BiP_HOp 2000
Lágrimas De Miedo N°9 - Spectrum (CD) National Silence Fear Drop 2002
INstruments (CD) Sans La Vue List 2004
The Sad Mac (CD, Album, Car) Anakrousis Vectors, Headz 2004
Walking East (Minimax, Car) Alluvial Recordings 2005
For Varying Degrees Of Winter (CD, Album, Dig) Swan Baskaru 2007
Lágrimas De Miedo N°13 - Parhélie (CD) Boulevard Périphérique Fear Drop 2007
Tracks Appear On:
Structure Decay - Material From FatCat's Past, Present & Future (CD) Beyond Zero Point FatCat Records 1998
Split Series 1 - 8 (CD) Foreground Blink FatCat Records 1999
e.g. Sometime Instant (CD) Wow (Physical Remix By... Radiotuesday 2000
Lockers (12") Lock3, Lock1 ERS 2000
The Wire Tapper 6 (2xCD, Dig) Accident Assistant Wire Magazine 2000
(K-RAA-K)³ Labelsampler (CD, Smplr) Penumbral Rover (K-RAA-K)³ 2001
Floating Foundation Vol. 1 (CD) Lithospheric Shifts Sub Rosa 2001
Medical Milestones (CD, Comp, Car) Schaefer Morning 29/03/95 Hot Air 2001
Lágrimas De Miedo N°9 - Spectrum (CD) National Silence Fear Drop 2002
)toon)4 Passepartout-CD (CDr, Album) 'Rink' [Extract] Not On Label 2003
60 Sound Artists Protest The War (CD, Comp) Is This Just...[?] Atak 2003
Belfast Songs (CDr + Box) The Long Good Friday Factotum 2003
Found Sound V.2 (CDr) Recorded Delivery Sounds From The Pocket 2003
Bip-Hop Generation [v.7] (CD, Dig) Vasulka Vauban's 'A Da... BiP_HOp 2004
INstruments (CD) Sans La Vue List 2004
Melatonin: Meditations On Sound In Sleep (2xCD, Comp) Love Song Room40 2004
Observer Drift (2xCDr) Villanueva De La Conce... Authorised Version 2004
Xing-Wu (2xCD, Car) Maison A Bordeaux Xing-Wu Records 2004
Mind The Gap Volume 54 (CD, Comp, Dig) Kerameikos Gonzo Circus 2005
Untitled Songs On The 49th Year Of Gesang Der Jünglinge (2xCD) Untitled Sirr 2005
Appliance 4 (LP) Outro Appliance Japan 2006
On Isolation (CD, Comp) Alone At Last Room40 2006
Idioscapes (CD, Ltd, Dig) Scarlett Arrives Idiosyncratics (2) 2007
Lágrimas De Miedo N°13 - Parhélie (CD) Boulevard Périphérique Fear Drop 2007
Present 'Jesus Is A Brave Little Toaster' Volume 1: Take Nothing But Footprints, Leave Nothing But Photographs (CD, Album) Janek Schaefer's Shaver Wrong Music 2007
Mus*****c (File, Album, MP3) Broadstairs Childrenâ€... Crónica 2008
Unofficial Releases:
No to G8! Yes To Breakcore! (CDr) Cold Storage Not On Label 2004

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