Holocene & Spend The Night present: Andrew Pekler & Jan Jelinek

Andrew Pekler was born in 1973 in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. His family immigrated to the United States in 1980. He has resided in Germany since 1995. Andrew Pekler works with sampling and synthesis to produce texturally rich and sensually evocative sound compositions. Since 2002 he has released solo and collaborative musical works for labels includung Faitiche, Kranky, Shelter Press, and Senufo Editions. Pekler has also produced a number of video and installation works – always in combination with sound. In addition to his studio productions, Andrew Pekler has composed music for theater productions, dance performances, sound installations, film soundtracks, and fashion shows. He has presented his music in numerous performances throughout Europe, North and South America, East Asia and Australia. -- Jan Jelinek’s works deal with the transformation of sounds, translating source materials from popular music into abstract, reduced textures. Bypassing traditional musical instruments, he constructs collages using tiny sound fragments from a wide variety of recording devices: tape recorders, digital samplers, media players and the like. The recordings are processed into repetitive loops that boil the original down to its essentials, the source material becoming indecipherable in most cases. -- Patricia Wolf is Portland based musician, field recordist, and sound designer. Her work sonically unites the natural and synthetic world, integrating ecological sources into her minimalist compositions. Using melody and repetition she lures listeners to a hypnotic inner space, conjuring vivid textures and atmospheres imbued with emotion.