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DECEMBER 06

EX-YUGOSLAVIA. Invited by CHINCH Belgrade and net.culture club MaMa Zagreb I will be performing at REX in Belgrade Serbia, December 7th and in Zagreb, Croatia, December 9th


NOVEMBER 06

USA. AION will be presented at the DIAPASON gallery in New York City. The work will be presented in the gallery throughout the month of November. My travel grant is generously sponsored by the Danish Arts Council's Committee for Visual Arts. AION reviewed in ARTFORUM.

USA. Issue Project Room I am happy to present a AION live on IPR's 16-channel sound system. Brooklyn New York City Nov 2nd

PORTUGAL. Performing at Numero Festival, Lisbon Portugal, Nov 9th

DENMARK. Presenting FILAMENT on Kontur Festival Copenhagen, Oct 10th & 11th

DENMARK. 'Væggene har ører' - 'The walls have ears'. Collaboration with the Danish writer & performer Seimi Nørregaard. Installation at Gallery Ovengaden in Copenhagen. Premiere/opening on Nov 17th

UK. ELECTRA has kindly invited me to participate in the Radio-Transmission Lab at the Old Operating Theatre in London. The event will also feature CM von Hausswolff and be broadcast live over Resonance FM. Nov 17th

UK. Performance together with David Maranha (Portugal) at the Atlantic Waves Festival at Royal Festival Hall in London UK, Nov 24th

LATVIA. Together with Leif Elggren and others I will participate in the project SKAN, arranged and curated by Viestarts Gaillitis, Riga Lativa Nov 27th - 30th.

USA. Curator and sound artist Peter Cusack has invited me to contribute a track and an article for the next issue of Leonardo Music Journal (LMJ16): 'Noises Off -- Sound Beyond Music'. Leonardo Music Journal is published by the M.I.T. Press. Read 'contributor notes' here

SWEDEN. An article about me will be published in the Swedish architecture & design magazine FORUM AID. The magazine is printed in English and in Swedish as well as an online edition.



OCTOBER 06

UK TOUCH 25 Touch celebrates its 25th anniversary with an evening of live performances. I will be DJ'ing with my collection of 70 year old 78' tango and jazz records. London, 17th of October

SPAIN AION will be shown at The International Festival of VideoArt, Valencia Spain 24th of October to the 5th of November.

USA. I will be speaking at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago on the 25th & 26th of October and at Rhode Island School of Design in Providence on the 30th of October.

USA. Concert in '6 & B Community Garden' together with 'NY Phonographers'. October 28th between 3 & 7 pm.

USA For Halloween I will be back at Share in NYC. This time playing together with Phill Niblock, celebrating Touch 25. New York City USA October 29th



SEPTEMBER 06

SWEDEN FULL PULL FESTIVAL 2006
Performing together with Tsukimono (Johan Gustavsson) in Malmö Sweden, Sep 1st.

ARKcast
ARKEN The Museum of Modern Art in Denmark is launching ARKcast on the 16th of September. For this occasion I have been invited to create a sound portrait of the museum which will be a part of their permanent ARKcast exhibition. My portrait is called ARK and consists of 3 tracks and can be experienced on iPods at the museum. Listen and read more here.

TOUCH 25 EVENT
Performing together with Fennesz at Juha 't Zelfde's event EUROPA FESTIVAL. Live visuals by Jon Wozencroft. The event will be held at the cinema space at "Lantaren/Venster" Rotterdam Holland Sep 22nd



AUGUST 06

A CD featuring the contributions from the invited sound artists at the Eco e Narisco project will be released by The Wire magazine this month. All worldwide subscribers of the magazine will receive the CD.

FRYGT. The kind staff at Kalundborg Kommune has again invited me to create a new work for their annual summer exhibition - 'Sommerudstillingen'. This time my work will resonate inside the many tunnels underneath the Masnedø Military Fort. the fort is located at the coast line of the southern Sealand in Denmark. Exhibition period August 7th - 12th

I will present a 16-channel sound tunnel directly at the sand of the tidal area in the west coast of Jutland, Denmark. The work will be presented at the festival Vadehavsfestival organized by Helle Hauger and the municipality of Ribe. 17th - 19th of August

AION will be exhibited at the Waves festival, organized by the great art collective RIXC in Riga, Lativa. I will also held a lecture 'Silence - unfolding in space (Chernobyl 20 years)'. The opening is happening on the 24th at 6pm. The exhibition lasts till September 17th.
At WAVES festival I will also hold a lecture "Silence: unfolding in space (Chernobyl, 20 years)" at the SPECTRUM conference: "dangerous waves" and "free waves" August 26, Arsenals museum. Read about the lecture HERE



JULY 06

Concert in collaboration with KRYPTOGEN RUNDFUNK at "V Pochyote" in Moscow, Russia, 1st of July

Artist in Residence Sct. Petersburg, Russia
With the generous support from NIFCA and Pro Arte I will be working at the Pro Arte Institute in Sct. Petersburg.

Eco e Narciso - Opening
Sound interventions created during April in Italy will be presented on site and opened to the public. 14, 15 & 16 July. The exhibition will run until the end of September 2006.

Read the interview in MusiqueMachine this month

4 ROOMS concert at Norberg Festival in Sweden. 28th of July



JUNE 06

Freq-Out
Presenting the fourth Freq-Out installation! This time at the Sonambiente Festival in Berlin 1st of June. Freq-Out live on 4th of June. Official opening of Sonambiente Berlin 2006 at Akademie der Künste at Pariser Platz Thur 1'st of June 6 pm.

AION will be exhibitted at the Halikonlahti Green Art museum in Salo, Finland. The opening is on June 9th

EISENWIND
Studio Acoustic Art (German Radio WDR 3) will broadcast my sound piece Eisenwind for the first time. Eisenwind means Iron Wind in German. With an accelerometer I have recorded the many iron fences that stretches along the Rhine river of Cologne. 10th of June, 11:05 PM

Ars Baltica 2006
FILAMENT. A work created in collaboration with Tessa Knapp. Rauma Finland. Exhibition period 10th of June - 1st of Ocotber.

Artist in Residence Sct. Petersburg, Russia
With the generous support from NIFCA and Pro Arte I will be working at the Pro Arte Institute in Sct. Petersburg.

Concerts in St. Petersburg, Russia: Museum of Freud's Dreams, 27th of June & Pushkinskaya 10, 29th of June



MAY 06

Eco e Narciso
The Italian curator and art critic Daniela Cascella has kindly invited me to be part of the project Eco e Narciso. This year six sound artists are invited to give voice to six eco-museums within the region of Turin in Italy, focusing on developing a sound intervention in this specific site. During a week of May I will be located in the village of Balme in the Italian Alps collecting sounds for the piece. During this time as well be giving a speech and concert in Turin. (TBA) The project is promoted by the Provincia di Torino, focused on the ‘eco-museum’ network. Presentation in Turin in July. See press tekst HERE

Rauma, Finland
Together with visual artist Tessa Knapp (Germany) I will spend some days at the Rauma museum creating a work for the RAUMA Biennial 2006. The Olkiluoto NPP has kindly invited for a visit at their 'largest nuclear power plant in the world'. We aim to create a work with the source of what we find in there and around.



APRIL 06

Welcome to HOTEL CHORNOBYL. I'd like to present a photo series of a very special hotel where I spent three days in October 2005. 'Hotel Chornobyl' & 'Cherno Barbie' are presented through my project website secretsounds.dk/scrap

AION
Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde Denmark
The installation AION is a revelation of four spaces inside the 'Zone of Alienation' in Chernobyl Ukraine. The exhibition runs from April 1st till July 2nd It passes the date of the 20 year disaster anniversary on April 26th

AION
will be exhibitted at the Gallery Rachel Haferkamp in Cologne Germany. The opening is on April 7th and it runs for 3 weeks.

Esbjerg Music Conservatory (TONESPACE education) Remix Workshop
For the first time I have the opportunity to teach at the Music Conservatory in the city where I was born. Hans Sydow and I will be running a workshop in 'REMIX' with primary focus on Else Marie Pade's works (Danish pioneer of 'Musique Concrete')

AION & 4 Rooms LIVE AT THE MARBLE CHURCH IN COPENHAGEN
Exactly 20 years after the Chernobyl disaster (April 26th 1986) I will be performing AION / 4 Rooms live. The concert is arranged in collaboration with the Museum of Contemporary Art, Komponent.dk
and the Marble Church. The event is economically supported by MFSK and SNYK.
The concert will happen at the Marble Church on April 25th at 22:30.

IMPERIA
IMPERIA is a state of mind, a condition. Rather than being merely documentation from the nuclear powerplant, IMPERIA is the force itself. IMPERIA has a strengthening effect on anyone in the area.
This is a 3-hour live installation presenting our recordings from the nuclear powerplant Barsebäck. Live in the Marble Church, Copenhagen. Collaboration with Tobias Kirstein. April 25th between 19:00- 22:00

AION & 4 Rooms
LIVE
AION LIVE, at the Gallery Rachel Haferkamp April 28th

Jacob Kirkegaard - 4 Rooms
A sonic presentation of four deserted spaces inside the 'Zone of Alienation' in Chernobyl.
New CD on Touch!


MARCH 06

REMIXING EARLY MUSIQUE CONCRETE
Hans Sydow has invited to do a remix of 'Symphonie Magnetophonique' (1958-59) and 'En dag på Dyrehavsbakken' (1954-55) composed by the Danish pioneer of electro acoustic music - Else Marie Pade. The compositions are considered being the first works of Musique Concrete in Denmark. The remixes will be presented LIVE at Statsbiblioteket in Aarhus Denmark 8th of March

Opening of the exhibition AION at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denmark. March 31st


FEBRUARY 06

KARYATIDEN
New dance project by Yoshie Shibahara with music by Jacob Kirkegaard
Premiere 3rd February 8pm. Running only 3rd & 4th of Feb!
Alte Feuerwache, Melchiorstr. 3, 50670 Cologne Germany

During February I will be working on "Blandede Bevægelser" -a development of an interactive computer game for architect students. Collaboration with Helle Brabrand and the School of Architecture in Copenhagen Denmark

JANUARY 06

Eldfjall LIVE. Contribution for 'Touch Radio'
I'm glad to present the live concert I did at the Observatory Festival in Valencia in October
Watch this link http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/touchradio/ Scheduled launch: January 8th

 

2005