Jan Jelinek

SEASCAPE - POLYPTYCH (LP)

12 Inch

Faitiche / 05243451

a1The Water Seems Changed To Mist And Vapor

a2Ropes Sing In The Air

a3Waiting And Watching (version)

a4Warm Murmur In The Room

a5It Moves Swiftly Forward, Throwing Up Great Waves

b1On The Quay Now, Waiting And Watching

b2Someone Squeezes A Concertina, Sailors Begin To Sing

b3Drawn Toward The Whirlpool’s Center

b4It Moves Swiftly Forward (version)

b5On The Quay (version)

New album from Berlin based musician and sound artist Jan Jelinek, based on image and acoustic source material from Moby Dick.

One of the most notorious hatemongers in movie history is Captain Ahab from John Huston"s 1956 classic Moby Dick. His manic monologues cast a spell on generations of viewers. Berlin based musician and sound artist Jan Jelinek has now turned the voice of Ahab into a musical instrument. Faitiche presents Jan Jelinek"s soundtrack for SEASCAPE - polyptych, an audio-visual software developed in collaboration with Canadian new media artist Clive Holden in 2022. SEASCAPE - polyptych is based on image and acoustic source material from Moby Dick. While Holden works on manipulating film sequences, the voice of Ahab plays a central role in Jan Jelinek"s soundtrack. The dynamic volume and tone of the captain"s speech control a synthesizer system that turns Ahabs voice into ten abstract soundscapes.