T H E L A N D
WORLD PREMIERE
Jacob Kirkegaard's new composition on the sounds of agriculture.
With the use of vibration sensors and near-field measurement microphones
THE LAND reveals the mechanically pulsating energy of food production
WORLD PREMIERE at ((o)) Gong Tomorrow Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark, Nov 10, 2022
With support from KODA Culture, Danish Composer's Society and the Danish Arts Foundation
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C H A O S E D G E
Chaos Edge uses two different recordings of butterflies. The first part of the work presents the stable but increasing tremble recorded from the tip of two wings on a butterfly poised for flight. The second, the unpredictable movement of the wings of a tethered butterfly in full flight mode.
Using these sounds from the butterfly, Chaos Edge seeks to sonify the “butterfly effect”: both the classic poetic metaphor that illustrates chaos theory, in which a small change in a system has a large influence in shaping its evolution, and the more recent quantum mechanical analogue, where the butterfly effect is thwarted by preparing a particle in a specific quantum state which is taken back in time and modified without changing its nature in the present.
About the exhibition: This year Danish Cultural Institute celebrates the 100 years of Danish physicist Niels Bohr being awarded the Nobel Prize. They do this with 3 different sound installations by Anna Kirse, Tie Yann and myself interpreting the work of Niels Bohr. They will be co-exhibiting at 3 different locations in 3 different countries opening at the Culture Night in Copenhagen on October 14th and at Niels Bohr Institute, Universitetsparken 5, where many other Science Campus events will also take place. After the opening the exhibition will move to H.C. Ørsted Instituttet where it will stay open to the public for another month and then to Riga (15th of October) and Beijing (11th of December). The exhibition is made in collaboration with Visionary Culture Foundation and supported by Danish Ministry of Culture (SLKS), Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, William Demant Fonden, Knud Højgaard Fond, Danish Composers Association Koda Kultur (Dansk Komponistforening), Danish Art Foundation (Statens Kunstfond), Latvian State Capital Foundation.
The video was recorded at the Botanical Garden by Frederik Wolff in Museum of Natural History in Copenhagen.
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C R O S S F I R E
The Danish composer and sound artist Jacob Kirkegaard has taken weapons and war as the subjects of his latest work, KRYDS ILD, whose world premiere will be performed by the Royal Lifeguard’s Music Corps
Jacob Kirkegaard’s original work CROSSFIRE was created from sound recordings of firearms and artillery. The work was transcribed for orchestra and entitled KRYDS ILD. The work evokes the sounds of a war situation. More than just a collection of sounds, Kirkegaard interviewed a war veteran who spent time under fire, talking with him about the human sound of war, the endless, unbearable wait and then the sudden, deafening crossfire.
From this conversation Kirkegaard was able to approach question that shaped this work: What does war sound like?
Kirkegaard has sought the answer to this question through a year of audio research including several visits to the Danish military shooting ranges, as well as to shooting ranges with civilian weapons’ enthusiasts. He has made sound recordings with sensitive vibration sensors placed directly on firearms and military vehicles as well as with acoustic measuring microphones positioned in shooting ranges. Jacob Kirkegaard has listened attentively to the mechanics of the weapon, the cutting of the projectile through the air and the deep echo after the explosion of a grenade. He used his recordings to compose a work that was then transcribed especially for The Royal Lifeguard’s Music Corps.
The work is orchestrated by Connor McLean and published by Edition·S. CROSSFIRE is commissioned by KLANG Festival.
World Premiere: Friday 2 September 19.30, Stærekassen, Copenhagen.
With support from KODA Culture, Danish Composer's Society and the Danish Arts Foundation
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When I listen, I have to be quiet. Sound Artist Jacob Kirkegaard
LOUISIANA CHANNEL, September 2021
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T E S T I M O N I U M - A T H E N S
New work based on sound, vibration and video recordings of dumping sites and waste management facilities in Athens
Commissioned by ONASSIS CULTURE CENTER and Borderline Festival, Greece, May - June 2021
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M E L L E M R U M
Solo exhibition at Kunstmuseet i Tønder, Denmark, April 21 - Septembver 19, 2021
Works: OPUS MORS, MEMBRANE, MELT and a new work ANIMAL
MELT at the exhibition MELLEM RUM at Tønder Art Museum, Denmark, March 2021
CPH:DOX, 2021
MEMBRANE is part of CPH:DOX, April 22 - May 5. Date for cinema screening TBA.
GREEN-LAND is part of CPH:DOX, April 22 - May 5. Date for cinema screening TBA.
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T E S T I M O N I U M
Solo exhibition at Fridman Gallery, New York, USA (Februrary 27 - March 27, 2021)
For the first time, Testimonium is presented in its most complete form: the video installation will be presented with
the 8-channel sound sculpture, and alongside Kirkegaard’s photographs of the desolate industrial landscapes.
THE WIRE - TESTIMONIUM at Fridman Gallery, New York, USA, UK, April 2021
BOMB MAGAZINE - Listening to the Heart: Jacob Kirkegaard Interviewed by Julie Martin, USA, March 2021
FLASH ART - Decaying Sound, Sounding Decay: Jacob Kirkegaard, USA, March 2021
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Jacob Kirkegaard's new work MEMBRANE
has been acquired by ARoS Art Museum, Denmark
MEMBRANE is part of the exhibition Far From Home at ARoS Art Museum, Aarhus (Until Nov 28, 2021)
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SOME SAY THE WORLD WILL END IN FIRE
New work for In Focus: Statements at Copenhagen Contemporary
Opening on June 25th, 2020
New sound installation by Jacob Kirkegaard in which multiple voices whisper the over 100 names that different cultures have used to describe ice and snow in all its forms. The names are spoken in eight languages; Danish, Faroese, Finnish, Greenlandic, Icelandic, Norwegian, Russian and Swedish, and are distributed over eight speakers throughout a bunker next to the Copenhagen Contemporary building. The omnipresent and steadily whispering recitals of such names as Dead Ice, Frost Smoke, Glacier Tongue, Old Ice, Rotten Ice, Sastrugi, Tide Crack and Whiteout in eight Nordic languages is a subtle but persistent statement and tribute - not only to an undeniably disappearing phenomenon in times of globally rising temperatures but - to a vocabulary of words melting away as well. |
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VIDNESBYRD
Solo exhibition at Munkeruphus, Denmark
Works: TESTIMONIUM, Testimonials # 1-2, Opus Crematio, Opus Putesco
and two new works Substratum and Necromonicon
August 23 - November 1, 2020
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M E M B R A N E
Galleri Tom Christoffersen in Copenhagen, Denmark Feb 28 - Mar 21, 202
Membrane is a sound and visual portrait of the growing border wall that separates Mexico and the U.S. This long metal barrier takes many forms and is made of many different materials, as it winds and twists several thousand kilometers through deserts, plains, and mountains, crossing Native American land, national parks, and even city streets to end in the Pacific Ocean.
Kirkegaard travelled along the wall from El Paso to Tijuana, stopping at sites on both sides of the wall to shoot video and to record ambient sounds of the surrounding landscape a well as the inner sounds of the metal structure: By attaching vibration sensors directly to the wall at each site, he captured the resonant frequencies of the different wall structures.
Membrane, with its panoramic vistas and penetrating close up views of the wall, reveals that this seemingly desolate and silent area of the American Southwest is alive with light and shadow, and especially with sound, the sound of the wall itself.
Jacob Kirkegaard travelled with cellist Mariel Roberts and together they are currently working on a collaborative project using the material they collected:
In Spring of 2020, American cellist and composer Mariel Roberts and Danish sound artist and composer Jacob Kirkegaard embarked on their first collaboration to create an electro-acoustic, evening length work in response to the border "wall" which is meant to divide the US and Mexico.
Using extra sensitive equipment, Kirkegaard and Roberts traveled along the 600 mile border fence which runs from Texas to California to capture the sound of the objects and atmospheres which define the experience of the region. The source material for this work was captured by attaching vibration sensors directly onto the border fence, which make it possible to hear the resonances of the various types of metallic structures which make up the barrier.
These recordings are used both within and as inspiration for several compositions which comprise an approximately hour-long work for solo cello and the audio recordings of the fence. Each recording location is expressed as a "movement" within the work, which highlights its individual character and rich individual frequency set. The piece weaves the sound world of the heavily amplified micro-acoustic material from the border region with the sound of the live performer to create a dialogue between the subject and observer.
O P U S M O R S
A sound work on four significant death spaces
Live at CTM 2020 - LIMINAL in Berlin, February 2nd, 2020
PREVIOUS:
Te invitamos a Poligonal Nº2 Diálogos de creatividad + acción social por el planeta, que considerará una charla sobre arte y ecología del artista ecuatoriano Paul Rosero, una performance sonora del artista Jacob Kirkegaard, seguido por un diálogo sobre cómo la crisis climática es también una crisis social entre Jacob Kirkegaard (artista danés), Catalina Amigo (especialista en estudios socioambientales de Red Pobreza Energética de Universidad de Chile), Andrés Briceño (arquitecto y Director de FabLab Santiago) moderado por Geraldine Mackinnon (Ilustradora botánica).
Martes 3 de diciembre 9:30 - 12:30 h., Centro de Extensión del Instituto Nacional. Gratis, previa inscripción en: https://cutt.ly/poligonal
O P U S M O R S
A sound work on four significant environments
for the immediate post-mortem
Four listening spaces for one of the existential and natural aspects of being alive, which is death.
The project portrays four sound environments that the human body commonly will be surrounded by or exposed to in the immediate post mortem: a morgue, an autopsy, a cremation and the decomposition - events that no one will ever get to sense on their own bodies because of the very fact of death.
The work is an immersive, intimate and powerfully detailed sonic meditation into the four significant death spaces
OPUS MORS - UPCOMING AND CONFIRMED SHOWS:
Opus Crematio @ TOPOS showcase, G((o))ng Tomorrow Festival, Copenhagen, DK, November 8th, 2019
Opus Mors (1-hour version) @ Simultan Festival in Timisoara, Romania, November 10th, 2020
OPUS CREMATIO (OPUS MORS) live at Cave 12, Geneva, January 8th
Opus Mors (the entire 3-hour work) @ CTM 2020 - LIMINAL in Berlin, February 2nd, 2020
T E S T I M O N I U M |
Portrait of artist Jacob Kirkegaard and the making of TESTIMONIUM
This portrait was created by John Grzinich in Spring of 2019 on ocassion of the
exhibition "NOT out of sight, NOT out of mind"
TOPOS - a curatorial platform for mediated matter and ideas TOPOS was founded in 2019 by the three artists and composers, Jacob Kirkegaard, Tobias R. Kirstein and Niels Lyhne Løkkegaard, to pursue their shared commitment to cross cultural and cross media activities that move beyond the strictures and boundaries of separate fields and disciplines. Its projects and program use various modes of presenting, publishing and releasing contemporary and archival material, generated or discovered by TOPOS. On September 3rd TOPOS will launch with four new albums, one of them a double vinyl gatefold release of John Cage’s Variations VII which was part of E.A.T.’s legendary 9 Evenings in NYC in 1966. On this event TOPOS will also present Variations VII live. The co-producer of the original 1966 event, Julie Martin will be performing Variations VII with TOPOS. |
P H O N U R G I A M E T A L L I S
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B L A C K M E T A L S Q U A R E
TWO NEW RELEASES on IMPORTANT RECORDS, USA:
Phonurgia Metallis (CD)
Read more about the original work HERE
Black Metal Square (LP)
Read more about the original work HERE
The Wire announcement HERE
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