4-Channel Concert-Performance, 2014Duration: 10′ Passeig de Gràcia 98 : 7:00 pm is part of an open series of compositions called The 10 Minutes Pieces that follow some simple formal rules: The title is the location and the time of their first presentation. Each piece evolves around field recordings recorded at the same location as indicated in the tile. The length…
Theatre/Dance Performance, 2008 Concept & Directing: Jan Mech & Sabine ZahnMusic: Jan Mech Soundtrack for version 1: jan.mech · Play, Soundtrack for a Stage Performance
Dance Performance from the series Nacherzählungen, 2008 Concept & Directing: Sabine Zahn & Jan MechPerformers: Sabine Zahn, Johanna von GagernComposition/Musician: Jan Mech
Video DV, colour, sound, 7’14”, 2008 Video: Judit Kurtag & Jan MechComposition: Jan Mech
Video installation & controller for audience, 2009Black & white, sound Video, controller & sound: Jan Mech The installation The Puppeteer consists out of a video loop, a dynamically generated stereo sound track and a sculptural object constructed out of a children’s bike wheel, 3/4 inch pipes and connection, as well as some electronic parts and a computer. The…
Video, 35mm slides and SD video transferred to HD video, color, sound, 2009 Duration: 8’10”Video & composition: Jan MechText: Jan Costin Wagner Auf kein Ziel zu – Video stills
Video-loop, 2 synchronized channels, color, sound, 18’, 2009 Video: Jan Mech & Judit KurtagSound & music composition: Jan Mech When it had al ready become unbearable – by an evening in November – and I was running along over the narrow carpet in my room as on a racetrack, frightened by the sight of the lights in…
Installation, 4-Channel Audio, 3-Channel-Video, 2 Monitor Screens, 2010 Kylwyrien (also Kilviria) is an imaginary country created by the Hungarian composer György Ligeti during early childhood and adolescence. The country, it’s geological genesis, discovery and exploration, geography, social and political structre as well as it’s language were developed in detail. Unfortunately the original records got lost.…
Concert-Performance Duration: aproximately 30′ The piece is based on the sound material of a live-radio-play performance which was created around the novel by Paul Auster The Country Of Last Things that was initially developed together with the actress Miriam Jansen at Berlin and Colone (Germany). In this concert Jan Mech plays a real-time composition that uses the sound…
Live audio- and spoken word performance – based on the novel Country of Last Things by Paul Auster, 2012/13 Duration: 60′Music & Sound-Scape: Jan MechSpeaker: Miriam JansenText: Miriam Jansen & Jan Mech. A sixty minutes monologue was extrated from Paul Auster’s novel Country of Last Things, live spoken and accompanied with a live soundtrack Excerpt: jan.mech · Ich Habe…