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	Janek Schaefer: Above Buildings: Pitchfork Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Janek Schaefer makes his living as an architect, and his recorded work has a serious conceptual bent.
		Schaefer has a fondness for scrapes, brushes, static and friction, not unlike other Central European artists like Oval and Fennesz.
		Though Schaefer's mostly working with drones, scrapes and assorted odd tones, he's capable of making something that strikes me as "happy." The opening track, "Forglen," is what it sounds like inside the mind of someone who's coming up on amphetamines, at the point of euphoria, just before thoughts of bad side effects kick in.
	www.pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/s/schaefer_janek/above-buildings.shtml (494 words)

	Janek Schaefer - Black Immure - Stylus Magazine
		There is a skewed Romanticism to Schaefer’s drones and hiss, a nostalgia that seems embedded into the persona of the vinyl deconstructionist despite the modern methods of Schaefer and his many kindred souls.
		Schaefer’s meditative vinyl patchwork is as full of variety and life as these snapshot impressions would seem to indicate, stretching far beyond the specific locale where it was recorded.
		The Squid and the Whale - Noah Ba...
	www.stylusmagazine.com /review.php?ID=906 (622 words)

	Avantgarde Music. Janek Schaefer: biography, discography, reviews, links
		Janek Schaefer (1970) is an English architect turned sound sculptor who has mastered the art of sound collage and specifically an avantgarde "turntablist" who has investigated the use of vinyl records as compositional tools.
		Schaefer's early experiments are documented by cassettes such as Architectural Cleaner Required (AudiOh, 1994), 95 Degree Angles (Audioh, 1995), Disturbed in Disguise (Audioh, 1996).
		The EP Weather Report (Alluvial, 2003) is the modern equivalent of a Dutch landscape painting of the 16th century: a gloomy portrait of winter via field recordings of sounds associated with weather events.
	www.scaruffi.com /avant/schaefer.html (788 words)

	M station -----> XperimentS -- Janek Schaefer
		The London-based artist and performer Janek Schaefer was voted Sound Designer of the Year 1999 by London's Creative Review magazine.
		Janek Schaefer studied classical music as a child, and composed his first music concréte collage at the age of 6.
		He trained as an architect, and it was later, while at the Royal College of Art, that he returned to explore his interests in the nature of sound through the medium of installations.
	mstation.org /jschaefer.html (1174 words)

	Fallt Publishing \| %Array \| Reviews \| Janek Schaefer \| Weather Report (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		As the balloon inflates Schaefer's voice can be heard introducing the project, "Up, up and away!" he cries as it floats upwards buffeted by the breeze.
		The collage effect is further emphasised by Schaefer's use of time lapse material, recalling his wonderful dictaphone-in-a-package-through-the-post project 'Recorded Delivery'.
		As the composition ends Janek and friends are heard heading out to retrieve the dictaphone.
	www.fallt.com /array/reviews/weatherreport.html (307 words)

	A Mixt Event: Tim Barnes, Taylor Deupree, Janek Schaefer, Ursula Scherrer, Michael Schumacher
		Janek Schaefer was born in England to Polish and Canadian parents in 1970 and graduated in architecture at the Royal College of Art in 1996.
		Schaefer has toured widely performing live Foundsoundscapes1 composed from the evocative, emotive and dynamic layering of abstracted textures and tones culled from ancient vinyl and manipulated field recordings.
		Janek was selected as 'Sound Designer of the Year' by Creative Review Magazine [UK] in 1999 and was awarded an 'Honorary Mention' at the Ars Electronica Festival [Austria] in 2001 for his album 'Above Buildings'.
	www.diapasongallery.org /archive/01_08_04.html (826 words)

	Browse by Artist: SCHAEFER, JANEK
		Janek Schaefer is one of the leading persons in the Turntable Terrorist wave nowadays.
		"Janek Schaeffer is a London based sound artist, known for his innovative turntablism (his triphonic turntable being the most famous) but also for his interest in audio architectural research, concerned by relationships with a built environment such as bringing live sounds into buildings from outside through hidden microphones.
		Towards the end of the concert Janek opened the terrace shutters and doors behind him as a sound reactive light installation cast shadows and light into the interior.
	www.forcedexposure.com /artists/schaefer.janek.html (972 words)

	FatCat Records : Releases
		Janek Schaefer vs Pan American was the third release in FatCat's split 12" series.
		Janek is a practising architect and former student at the RCA.
		Mixing electronic instrumentation (the central Rhodes piano motif; sine-wave bass; drum machine), with effects, and concrete-style samples (a metal pipe rolling on a wooden floor; clanking saucepan lids, etc.), its effect is langorous and hypnotic, revealing a slowly-unfolding tapestry of entwining beats and simple, sumptuous melodies.
	www.fat-cat.co.uk /fatcat/release.php?id=22 (204 words)

	Philip Jeck & Janek Schaefer: Songs for Europe: Pitchfork Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Avant-turntablists Philip Jeck and Janek Schaefer tackle those challenges on Songs for Europe, painting portraits of Athens and Istanbul by treading deserted streets and trying to reanimate those lanes and avenues with their recordings.
		Jeck and Schaefer mainly chose to sample and bleed together folk records to sound melancholic-- often tying 20 pounds of rocks to string ballads floating on a river.
		Jeck and Schaefer then let a turntable stylus run off the record and their phono cartridge buzz for over a minute.
	www.pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/j/jeck_philip/songs-for-europe.shtml (559 words)

	[ S ] titles at Aquarius Records
		Schaefer punctuates his atmospheres with looped samples from those old records and the piano recordings, using a technique similar to Philip Jeck's, crafting those sonatas into oblique fragments of memory that have been faded beyond all recognition.
		Janek Schaefer - an architect turned sound sculptor - presents two 30 minute turntable collages that build slow moving paranoid drones, rich with amplified blasts of surface noise, vertigo inducing swells of RPM dynamics, and stochatic tones usually associated with musique concrete.
		Janek Schaefer's Weather Report is a noticable contrast to the polished surfaces that twist through his previous albums of desolate isolationism, Black Immure and Le Petit Theatre De Mercelis.
	www.aquariusrecords.org /cat/s4.html (6071 words)

	Comae (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Comae is the collaborative effort between Robert Hampson and Janek Schaefer, two giants of the British experimental-music scene.
		Schaefer, a trained architect, has been exploring the nature of sound through the medium of installations since the mid-nineties, and gained a degree of notoriety with his invention of the three tone arm, reversible, vari-speed 'triphonic turntable'.
		Robert Hampson is probably best known as the main guitarist and singer for Loop, but has recently staked his claim in the digital soundfile arena with his Main project and the occasional, improvisational collaboration.
	www.freewilliamsburg.com /november_2001/comae.html (369 words)

	Grooves Magazine - Reviews: Janek Schaefer - Pulled Under (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Tellingly, it is dedicated to Schaefer's girlfriend, immediately steering it away from studied minimalism or random generative guff.
		Only on "Parallel Spoor" does Schaefer return to the stormier sounds of his early days, low, reverberating rumbles crumbling out of the speakers like the early stages of a landslip, and even that gives way to a touching vapor wisp recalling Stars of the Lid.
		In all of these cases, Schaefer's key attribute is a kind of balancing act.
	www.groovesmag.com /review_item.php?id=00000033 (330 words)

	Janek Schaefer: Above Buildings - PopMatters Music Review
		In 1998, London-based Janek Schaefer broke onto the electronic music scene after he was paired with Pan American on Fat Cat's Splinter Series of Split 12"s.
		On Above Buildings as Schaefer moves away from the Tri-phonic, his work suffers as the album is a seemingly endless, expanse of minimalism which is little more than lost at sea.
		Maybe this record would work within the context of the Schaefer live experience, or in some other multi-media installation format, however, the listener has neither of these benefits and thus Above Buildings must be judged on sound alone.
	www.popmatters.com /music/reviews/s/schaeferjanek-above.shtml (608 words)

	Fallt Publishing \| %Array \| Reviews \| Stephan Mathieu, Radboud Mens, Janek Schaefer, Timeblind \| Quality Hotel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The second in a series of live recordings produced during Montreal's MUTEK Festival, 'Quality Hotel' features the combined talents of Stephan Mathieu, Radboud Mens, Janek Schaefer and Timeblind flexing their sonic muscles on the final day of MUTEK 2002.
		Recorded in Mens' hotel room, the scene was a solid mass of cabling, linking four artists - umbilical-like - as they coaxed their machines to life, gently easing sound into the hot atmosphere of a sunny June morning.
		Perhaps it's the tiredness brought on after such a well-organised and well-enjoyed festival, but the results are spectacular, fondly recalled and, one hopes, not the last of these spontaneous hotel room encounters.
	www.fallt.com /array/reviews/qualityhotel.html (406 words)

	Online Events
		Janek Schaefer is a musician and sound artist based in London.
		Schaefer has released music on Fat Cat, [K-RAA-K]3, and Rhiz Records as well as his own label, audiOh.
		When playing live, Schaefer combines manipulated field recordings with live modified vinyl in a manner The Wire magazine describe as 'concréte ruffian style'.
	www.tate.org.uk /onlineevents/archive/user_mode_music.htm (631 words)

	The Zeitgeist Gallery: Early: Janek Schaefer
		Non-Event & the Berwick Research Institute are pleased to present the Boston-area debut of UK sound artist and turntablist, Janek Schaefer.
		Using custom built record players and variety of other devices, Janek explores the spatial and architectural aspects of sound, as well as the twisting of technology.
		Schaefer runs the label audiOh!Recordings and has released records on Sub Rosa, Staalplaat, Hot Air, Sirr, Rhiz, Alluvial, Diskono, and Asphodel.
	www.zeitgeist-gallery.org /archives/2004/12/07/early_janek_schaefer.html (365 words)

	Janek Schaefer : Above Buildings - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
		The sounds on the Above Buildings album come from field recordings blended with noise from Schaefer's custom-built three-armed turntable, but the processing of these ingredients is so extensive the sources are impossible to identify.
		Whatever the roots of these tracks, Schaefer has brilliantly shaped them into a complex and unsettling work of sound art.
		Definitely on par with the best of similar artists like Fennesz, Above Buildings establishes Janek Schaefer as a major talent on the experimental music scene.
	www.artistdirect.com /store/artist/album/0,,1158395,00.html (314 words)

	microsuoni: Fat Cat
		Having established a strong live reputation, other projects for Schaefer include collaborations with Robert Hampson (a CD under the monicker ‘Comae’ will appear soon on Mego-offshoot Rhiz), turntablists Phillip Jeck, Martin Tétreault.
		Whilst a full-length live CD was released on the Belgian K-RAA-K label, this release marks Schaefer's first studio release, and possibly his strongest work to date.
		The sound palette was sourced in England, France, Canada and the USA, and marks a move away from Janek's previous emphasis on his Tri-phonic Turntable.
	www.microsuoni.com /labels/fatcat.html (269 words)

	Avanto Festival 2001
		As Comae, instead of playing guitar and the turntables, Hampson and Schaefer have abstracted their sounds a degree further by transferring them into the memory of their individual machines, which they then use to improvise.
		Schaefer and Hampson are united by their common interest in the spatial perception of sound.
		Although this kind of statement is often associated with the rhetoric of ambient music, their compositions force one to listen with utter care - something that only a few ambient classics manage to achieve.
	www.avantofestival.com /avanto2001/2001_live/lp_comae.html (207 words)

	microsuoni: (K-raa-k)³
		Allthough very busy with other projects as Comae (with Janek Schaefer), Chasm (Fatcat), his Main output has been a bit low.
		Schaefer doesn't see those two long pieces as just two live pieces : it's more than that.
		No doubt that Janek Schaefer will/is one off those notorious composers who contributes to musical history.
	www.microsuoni.com /labels/kraak.html (344 words)

	Janek Schaefer : Press Quotes
		Janek Schaefer is a rising star of the new European electronic music circuit, to the level of Marcus Popp, Fennesz and Pita."
		"Schaefer creates compositions that are open and warm and full of shifting swathes of static and hum.
		Schaefer generally deserves congratulation for his admirable sense of sonic architecture.
	www.audioh.com /press/quotes.html (574 words)

	M station -----> XperimentS -- Janek Schaefer page 3
		Janek Schaefer has recently been invited to do a second version of the Recorded Delivery piece.
		This time it's called Return To Sender and is a stereo version with the left channel being him travelling to the gallery, and the right channel returning home.
		An exclusive track by Janek Schaefer will appear on The Wire Tapper Special Edition CD on the cover of October's Wire edition, available world wide to subscribers and on all UK news stands.
	mstation.org /jschaefer3.html (907 words)

	Bios: Events: PHILIP JECK / JANEK SCHAEFER
		Most people get annoyed when the needle sticks in the groove of their records because of dust or dirt and they have to get up to clean the record or budge the stylus on a little.
		Janek runs his own label [audiOh!Recordings] and web site [audiOh.com] as well as releasing work with Sub Rosa, Staalplaat, Hot Air, Sirr, Rhiz, Alluvial and Diskono.
		Janek was selected as the 'Sound Designer of the Year' by Creative Review magazine in 1999.
	www.biofighter.com /cgi-bin/event.pl?oid=2270002 (513 words)

	City Pages - The Tables Have Turned (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Christian Marclay may be the father of experimental turntablism, scratching and mutating and finally crushing a selection of battered vinyl in his 1984 short film "Record Players." But Janek Schaefer is the genre's clown prince.
		Schaefer cut custom dub-plates of locked grooves, then sent the tone-arms shuttling across the vinyl, mixing chance loops into dense aggregations of field recordings.
		During his December 2002 sojourn, Schaefer recorded a mobile phone's transmissions floating over a frozen lake, taped Dictaphones to weather balloons for recordings of the sky, and miked the beeps and buzzes of tornado-chasing and -testing equipment.
	www.citypages.com /databank/25/1210/article11890.asp (1014 words)

	Stephan Mathieu, Radboud Mens, Janek Schaefer, Timeblind: Quality Hotel: critiques - No Type (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Recorded in Mens’ hotel room, the scene was a solid mass of cabling, four artists linked umbilically as they coaxed their machines to life, gently easing sound into the atmosphere of a sunny June morning.
		Mathieu, Mens, Schaefer and Timeblind coax their machines into a beautiful display of restraint and mutual respect.
		This idea of using hotel rooms for artists in transit was further explored in 2002, when Radboud Mens, Stephan Mathieu, Janek Schaefer and Timeblind decided to do some music together which is now released as Quality Hotel (just like Abri a name of a hotel in Montréal).
	www.notype.com /drones/cat.f/mtk_clb02.press.html (564 words)

	sirr \| ecords
		One of a new generation of experimental turntablists, Janek Schaefer came to
		Janek himself while "preparing" the audience to be blinded by obscurity in
		Schaefer creëert een onaardse ambiance en doet prachtige dingen met zijn driearmige platendraaier, met een antieke piano, met licht en
	www.sirr-ecords.com /rev/010review.html (1952 words)

	Kultureflash - Headlines from London
		At the same time as Oswald was deconstructing existing sounds and creating new ones from a pure "sample" technique, American/Swiss Video artist and musician Christian Marclay was unfolding the art of Vinyl alterations and pushing the turntable to its limits.
		English contemporary turntablists Philip Jeck and Janek Schaefer are finally joining forces for the live presentation of their recent collaborative work Songs for Europe (Asphodel) recorded between Athens and Istanbul in 2004.
		As Janek went on to study architecture, Philip Jeck visited the Royal College of Art for his Vinyl Requiem installation, which instantly generated Janek's interest in Vinyl.
	www.kultureflash.net /engines/print.asp?edition=124&event=2727&subscriber= (217 words)

	FatCat Records : Janek Schaefer
		Other projects for Schaefer have included collaborations with Robert Hampson (a CD under the monicker 'Comae' appeared on the Austrian label Rhiz), turntablists Phillip Jeck and Martin Tétreault, and post-rock group Rothko.
		Whilst a live CD was released on the Belgian K-RAA-K label, the release of ‘Above Buildings’ in November 2000 on FatCat’s Splinter Series marked Schaefer's first full-length studio release.
		Full of shimmering textures and sublime soundscaping, it was essentially produced through studio manipulations of field recordings and vinyl manipulations built up through live processing.
	www.fat-cat.co.uk /fatcat/artistInfo.php?id=62 (181 words)

	Space Invaded - Events - Arts - British Council - Japan
		British sound artist, Janek Schaefer, who studied architecture at Royal College of Art before switching to music, is coming to Japan to perform at Super Deluxe in Tokyo on 29 March.
		Janek will play various sound devices including his celebrated duophonic turntable.
		The concert will be held in connection with the architectural exhibition, "Space Invaders".
	www.britishcouncil.org /japan/japan-events-listing/japan-arts-events/japan-events-arts-space-invaded.htm (125 words)

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