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Schaefer
Composer, Sound
Artist, Musician, Sound Designer, Voiceover Artist
Nominated for the British Composer of the Year Awards 2007
Shortlisted for the Foundation Liedts-Meesen ‘New Media Award 2008’
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NEW 'Alone at last' CD album
Collection of commissioned compositions 1997 - 2007 [Sirr.ecords]
Sleeveless release "The Sporting Guide to The Speed of Sound" [audiOh! Recordings]
'Extended Play' [triptych for the child survivors of war and conflict]
composition installation for cello piano and violin EP's on 9 vari-speed retro record players
"a piece to return to again and again... haunting and lulling" [The Wire]
Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival commission 2007
'Two by Two by Two by Two by Too many by Too much'
installation on population pollution opens in the Canary Islands Modern Art Museum
installation with Chris Watson & David Tinapple 'Vacant Space' DVD Now available
"Observing and hearing these spaces without their usual hustle and bustle is as
psychologically liberating as running through the aisles of a supermarket after closing time"
Project nominated for The British Composer of the Year Awards 2007
Audiofile Album 'Recital in the old library' sleeveless release [audiOh! Recordings]
"Astonishingly intimate" [The Wire]
My favourite album so far 'In the last hour' [::Room40:: - Australia]
"In the Last Hour confirms Janek's position as a leading contemporary sound artist"
"sounds like what a cathedral made out of glass would look like... Completely essential"
"a superb overview of one of the UK’s most compelling sound artists and composers"
"this is indeed his best work"
My summertime CD 'Hidden Name' with Stephan Mathieu is out now [Cronica - Portugal]
"This is a major tour de force of eleven beauties. Great stuff from great minds"
"An invitation to perfection, so powerful is the magic of Stephan & Janek"
"An absolute masterpiece...that also touched me very deeply"
"..quietly magnificent"
NEW: 'On Isolation' CD compilation [::Room40::]
".. we have rarely heard such a successful collection of minimal experimental music"
Scarlett Schaefer is born on the 13th December 2005
My Whitney Museum of Modern Art - dance soundtrack: 'Migration' is out now [Bip_Hop]
"Schaefer has a unique gift for seeing process in spatial terms... One of his best releases to date". [The Wire]
'Shuffle Mode' site specific installation for Perth Concert Hall
Canadian
Radio 3 interview by Jowi Taylor for 'The Wire' 8 part radio series
on the role of electricity in the history of music.
[Radio
series website with loads of other great interviews from each episode]
[20min
full interview via Real Audio stream]
My 'World Record for breaking the most number of
records' on my 33.3rd birthday enters The Guinness Book of
World Records !
Cold Storage has been awarded a Jury Selection at the Bourges 2005 International Competition of Electroacoustic Music & Sonic Art
"Cold
Storage is an impressive resumé not only of Schaefer's own career as
a sound artist, but of half a century
of the theory and practice of electronic music in all its diverse forms".
[The Wire]
Prix Ars Electronica - Skate LP wins 'Award of Distinction' - see performance pix
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Podcast interview with Janek on 'Some Assembley Required' radio show, Minneapolis, USA.
'Short Stories' DVD to be released by Bip_Hop in 2008
"Janek Schaefer's first sound-work, 'Recorded Delivery', remains one of the wittiest and most interesting
in the field of Sound Art. It is elegant, economical and clever, and makes me wish I'd thought of it first." Brian Eno [2005]
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