Jayrope
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jayrope is an anonymous[1] Berlin-based composer, producer, musician, singer, instrument builder, lyricist and sound designer. While being Atari Teenage Riot's sound engineer in the mid 1990s he started releasing own music, overlooked by Alec Empire[2]. jayrope composes and plays for contemporary dance and dance theatre since 2000 and for directors and choreographers such as Helena Waldmann, Samir Akika, Nir de Volff and Florian Bilbao. Other works on composition, production and as a live playing musician include Arto Lindsay, Maria Farantouri, Thomas Borgmann and Neil Carlill.
jayrope's music uses a widely improvisation-based approach today, stating in 2014 that music making shall not contain "any final states besides now".[3]
As a producer jayrope was nominated for the Czech Anděl award with the Czech alternative band DVA in 2008 for the album Fonok. The follow-up album HU ended winning said award.
Music projects/collaborations
Own music recordings with
- with Rope on Alec Empire's label Geist Records in 1998 and 2000,
- in 2004 with mass pop music improvisation project Girls United [4],
- in 2005 with Canadian-Berliner Dave Bennett as Television Workshop [5],
- 2004-2006 with Berlin-based singer Falko Teichmann as The Sighs[6],
- in 2012 with Neil Carlill as Vedette[7],
- since 2007 with Lippstueck as Air Cushion Finish[8]
Music for dance & theatre
- Gelage für Langschweine (2001, for Helena Waldmann with Arik Hayut)
- Believe it or not (2008, for Nir de Volff with Arik Hayut)
- Matkot (2009, for Nir de Volff)
- Picnics, Weddings and Funerals (2010, for Nir de Volff)
- Glückstück (2011, for Helena Waldmann)
- Penguins and Pandas (2013, for Samir Akika)
- The Pin (2013, for Samir Akika)
- Close your Eyes (2014, for Samir Akika)
- Belleville (2014/2016, for Samir Akika with Martin Basman)
- Die Zeit der Kirschen (2015/2016, for Samir Akika)
- Einer flog übers Kuckucksnest (2015/2016, for Samir Akika)
- The Maidenhair Tree and The Silver Apricot (2016, for Samir Akika with Simon Camatta and Stefan Kirchhoff as Silver Apricot)
- Akika X (2016, for Samir Akika)
- Polaroids (2017, for Samir Akika with Simon Camatta and Stefan Kirchhoff)
- Karagos (2017, for Florian Bilbao)
Discography (excerpt)
Air Cushion Finish
Albums
- Bleifuß (2008, Biesentales Records)
- Biesenthal (2010, Biesentales Records & 2017, alt.vinyl Records [9])
- Lilli (2012, self released)
- Bird friends recently made (2012, self released)
- Blankenese - Küssen lernen bei marokkanischen Glasbläsern (2014, self released)
- Spree (2014, Hafenschlamm Records)
- Puff Pastry (2014, self released)
- Flink (2017, Lullabies for Insomniacs Records[10])
Rope
Albums
- Rope Hotel (1998, Geist Records)
- It's no fun to compute (2000, Geist Records)
- An die toten Mädchen (2010, self released)
References
- ↑ Explanation of artist's anonymousity.
- ↑ Alec Empire and Rope (German
- ↑ Franzmagazine interview by Judith Ralser (German) 2014
- ↑ Girls United external site
- ↑ Television Workshop external site
- ↑ The Sighs (Berlin) external site
- ↑ Vedette/Herb Recordings
- ↑ Air Cushion Finish external site
- ↑ alt.vinyl Records
- ↑ LFI Records
External links
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