Second contribution to a series about the eventlessness & clandestine acoustics of hotel corridors. Each part of the series portrays a certain corridor / presents a processed recording from Jan Jelinek's archive. The second post introduces a corridor at The Westin, Hamburg - recorded in 2022.

Again - other proportions, another place, but still a hotel corridor: Chicago 2011

Jan Jelinek: Corridor II, 2023

BERLIN CALLING Vol. III, exhibition at Mieze Südlich/NGfZK, Gera, Germany - Feb 25th - Apr 2nd 2023. Including work by Isabelle Borges, Jessica Buhlmann, DAG, Anne Mundo, Manfred Peckl, Johannes Weiss and Jan Jelinek (Zwischen installation). Curated by Dirk Teschner.

Zwischen, verbal instructions (audio transcription by Anne Bergmann), 2019

German SWR2 premiers a new bilingual (DE, EN) radio work by Jan Jelinek: Social Engineering. A 33-minute voice and sound collage dedicated to the hysteria of phishing emails. Premiere: February, 25th 2023. Available afterwards as free stream & download for 18 months here. more

Unfortunately still unchanged: A screenshot from last year's mail box.

Jan Jelinek: Social Engineering (excerpt), 2023

Time for a change at Faitiche's bimonthly radio show on LYL. From now on it's one hour = one artist portrait. Jan Jelinek portraits drummer and composer Hanno Leichtmann for the first half, Hanno Leichtmann responses with his Gravest Hits of Avantgarde mix for the second. Leichtmann curated and installed a jukebox with 50 lathe cut 7“ singles - a personal selection of modern classical music, commissioned for the 100th edition of Donaueschinger Musiktage - on air February 24th, 13:00-14:00. Available afterwards as Mixcloud stream.

Hanno Leichtmann: Gravest Hits, Donaueschingen 2021.

faitiche Journal / Jan Jelinek starts a new series about the eventlessness & clandestine acoustics of hotel corridors. Each part of the series will portray a certain corridor / present a processed recording from Jelinek's archive. The first part begins with a corridor at Fujisawa Hotel, Kyoto - recorded in 2006.
 

Actually a much more spacious corridor than at Hotel Fujisawa: Chicago 2011

Jan Jelinek: Corridor I, 2023

2023 starts with an album announcement (up to six more will follow this year): Groupshow - Greatest Hits (faitiche 29), release: Jan 27th 2023. The ten tracks on this first vinyl album by Groupshow (Hanno Leichtmann, Andrew Pekler, Jan Jelinek), recorded between 2005 and 2018, document concert recordings and studio improvisations by the trio. more

Groupshow live at Radialsystem, Berlin 2019, photo by Juliane Schütz

Groupshow: Music For A Plank Press (faitiche 29), 2023