Extended Play
Janek Schaefer
In assocation with Oxford Contemporary Music
16 - 31 December
Mon-Fri 1-7pm, Sat & Sun 12-4pm, Closed 25, 26, 27 December
North Wall, South Parade, Oxford. OX2 7NN
Triptych for the child survivors of war and conflict
Janek Schaefer describes his Extended Play as a �bitter sweet tribute to the child survivors of conflict and war...[it]continuously and positively celebrates hope, survival, and new beginnings�. Inspired by his Polish mother who was a child survivor of the Second World War, a bunker in his back garden and the birth of his own daughter, Schaefer created this award winning sound installation. At its core is a Polish tango that originally told the story of a Polish/Ukraine conflict and was later used as code by the Polish underground in World War II. Schaefer teases out each instrument within the piece and plays them separately across three clusters of Crosley Record Players. As the audience moves around the gramophones sensors stop and start the music to form an organic reworking of the original tango. The result is tender, moving and beautiful.
Extended Play won the 2008 British Composer of The Year Award for Sonic Art.
�A piece to return to again and again... haunting and lulling� The Wire
Oxford Contemporary Music
Extended Play website
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