Name: Jan Carleklev

Location: Sweden

Links: www.carleklev.se
www.instagram.com/carleklev

Beepboop Instruments: Custom Tapewands, LOFI CV Varispeed Looper and uTape Scrubber

Jan has been a great supporter of my work developing new tape based instruments for eurorack. Early on in my journey Jan got in touch and instantly I knew I had met someone who understood the magic of tape and it’s possibilities for live performance. I have always belived playing music live is as much about involving the audience as it is about expressing ourselves. As part of his latest performance, “Sandsinger”, Jan uses tapewands to replay lengths of cut up Magentic tape which have been hung to capture the audiences attention and fascination.

A resident artist of Art inside out (https://artinsideout.se/se) Jans work spans sound art, music and video.

Previous work 201002 . Gieger (https://youtu.be/5n8NIXwFFCY?si=UCOYVKDM33ZXDXnC) which like the Sandsinger incoperate the use of his voice and field recording with his eurorack system to evoke senic atmospheres otherworldly textures . The themes of memory and nature are explored through medative sound scapes evoking a sense of connection with and nostolgia for nature.

“Jan Carleklev spent most of his residency in the natural reserve Hökafältet. with
his feet in the sand and in constant contact with this unstable intersection between sea, river, drifting sand, cultivated pine wood and highway. At this site he recorded, played back, experimented, and walked, often accompanied by neighbors, or invited experts. Step by step Carleklev’s attention drilled itself further and further down in the sand. Finally, he reached “Sandsångaren”, a mysterious and mythical creature that up until now has only been observed by Carleklev himself.
Maybe “Sandsångaren” is less of a bird, a solitary bee, or a hymenopteran and
more of an embodied voice that arises from within the sand to speak, reprehensively, to us about accountability and future. Not unlike the legend of the Sandman, who according to the legend stole the eyes of children that refused to go to sleep, and its amalgamation of realism and magical fantasy that projects the world and our relation to it in a displaced but strangely familiar shape.”