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SEASCAPE - polyptych

by Jan Jelinek

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1.	The water seems changed to mist and vapor 03:51	info	buy track
2.	Ropes sing in the air 03:04	info	buy track
3.	Waiting and watching (version) 03:50	info	buy track
4.	Warm murmur in the room 04:55	info	buy track
5.	It moves swiftly forward, throwing up great waves 04:17	info	buy track
6.	On the quay now, waiting and watching 05:16	info	buy track
7.	Someone squeezes a concertina, sailors begin to sing 02:11	info	buy track
8.	Drawn toward the whirlpool's center 05:14	info	buy track
9.	It moves swiftly forward (version) 02:50	info	buy track
10.	On the quay (version) 04:20	info	buy track

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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 Ahab's voice into ten abstract soundscapes.  In this production the voice gives the impulse and controls things but is not the sound of spoken word itself that we hear. Only occasionally can snippets of speech be heard so that syllables or sounds are recognisable. Instead we hear compositions made of hissing, soundscapes and eruptive sounds. The atmosphere is dark and sinister. Still every piece has a clear sonic structure and follows an understandable dramatic composition. This music is abstract but not overwhelming. Quite the opposite, SEASCAPE – polyptych is an invitation to listeners to let themselves be carried by the stream of sonic events.

Although part of a media art work, the soundtrack can be enjoyed without any of this connecting superstructure. It works with no previous knowledge. But what happens when one does know that it’s the sonic waves of a human voice that is controlling a network of synthesizers?  If you want to hear Ahab, you will hear a choir of Ahabs in every piece of sound. The subliminal threatening as well as the conjuring Ahab. Finally the Ahab who whips up his crew and tears them with him into their downfall. The majestic „on the quay now, waiting and watching“, the oppressive “drawn towards the whirlpools center” - they are all music as well as sonic discourse.

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released April 28, 2023

Written and produced by Jan Jelinek
Mastered by Rashad Becker
Design by Tim Tetzner
Images by Clive Holden
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