The Royal Life Guards Music Band (Denmark) plays Crossfire by Jacob Kirkegaard (live excerpt)
Klang Festival, Live at the Royal Theatre, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2022
Jacob Kirkegaard live at Borderline Festival 10, Athens, Greece, June 2021.
Ensemble Funktion playing Jacob Kirkegaard's Labyrinthitis, in canon with 16 speakers in the spiral staircase of Cosmo Caixa, Barcelona, Spain.
Jacob Kirkegaard performing Opus Mors live at Simultan Festival, Timisoara, Romania, 2019 (Photo by Petru Cojocaru)
Jacob Kirkegaard performing Opus Mors live at Simultan Festival, Timisoara, Romania, 2019 (Photo by Petru Cojocaru)
Jacob Kirkegaard performing Opus Mors live at Simultan Festival, Timisoara, Romania, 2019 (Photo by Petru Cojocaru)
Jacob Kirkegaard performing Opus Crematio live at G((o))ng Tomorrow Festival, as part of TOPOS showcase evening, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2019
Photo by Malthe Ivarsson ©, 2019
Jacob Kirkegaard performing Opus Crematio live at G((o))ng Tomorrow Festival, as part of TOPOS showcase evening, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2019
Photo by Malthe Ivarsson ©, 2019
Jacob Kirkegaard performing Opus Crematio live at G((o))ng Tomorrow Festival, as part of TOPOS showcase evening, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2019
Photo by Malthe Ivarsson ©, 2019
Jacob Kirkegaard performing Opus Crematio live at G((o))ng Tomorrow Festival, as part of TOPOS showcase evening, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2019
Photo by Malthe Ivarsson ©, 2019
Aarhus Pigekor rehearsing Jacob Kirkegaard's Eustachia for Voices, Aarhus, Denmark 2017
Excerpt from Jacob Kirkegaard's composition Solámok from 2014. Rehearsal with SCENATET at Ribe Domkirke
Rued Langgaard
Festival, Ribe, 2024
Sound recordings of melting ice for Dries van Noten Summer 2017 Women's Collection fashion show in Paris, September 28th, 2016
Ondes Corti - Suzanne & Farrin & Jacob Kirkegaard playing live at the Gothenburg Biennial in Sweden, Sep 2015
Photos by Attila Urban
O N D E S C O R T I
For the opening of GIBCA Suzanne Farrin and Kirkegaard will premiere their composition, Ondes Corti!
The concert will take place at Folkteatern in Gothenburg on the 11th of September, 2015
Ondes Corti is a series for inner ear tones and ondes Martenot written by Jacob Kirkegaard and Suzanne Farrin. The musical materials are derived from tones produced by the ear itself projected through live electronics and in dialogue with one of the earliest electronic instruments: the ondes Martenot.
The ondes was first imagined at the top of the Eiffel Tower by Maurice Martenot, an engineering student and amateur cellist who was drafted during the First World War to work on radio transmissions. Depressed over the destruction, he had a vision that these tools could be transformed from destructive to beautiful. He dreamed of creating an instrument that could communicate directly with an audience with no impediment other than "the imagination of the performer." He eventually believed that the performer would be able to "think" an interpretation and the audience could receive the music telepathically. The result is an instrument that is an expressive, other-worldy machine and also the most technically advanced musical instrument of its time (the 1920s).
These expressive tones also exist within the ear itself and appear remarkably similar timbrally to sine waves. This musical fingerprint is the result of spontaneous otoacoustic emissions (SOAE)s, which are sounds that are generated in the Organ of Corti without external stimulation. They are perceptible, though often go unnoticed, and can be recorded with sensitive microphones. Like human sound signatures, they are a window to the immense diversity and richness of the human identity.
Ondes Corti will explore these inner and other worlds: what we create and what we are capable of receiving. These pieces will unearth the tones hidden in nearly every individual's ears and create musical poetry that exposes and embraces the sounds that connect us.
Rehearsing Solámok with Scenatet for concert at Ribe Domkirke, Denmark, 2014
Jacob Kirkegaard - Isfald live at Issue Project Room, New York, 2014
Tone Poem for Richard Strauss - composed and performed together with Katinka Fogh Vindelev,
Socrates Sculpture Park, New York City, 2014
Jacob Kirkegaard live in Timisoara, Romania, 2012
Else Marie Pade & Jacob Kirkegaard playing Svævninger live at Radiohuset, Denmark, 2013
Labyrinthitis live at Eyebeam, New York, USA, August 2013
Jacob Kirkegaard - The Visitor live at The Rothko Chapel, Houston Texas, 2012
Playing Church II & Labyrinthitis II live with ensemble Gnarwhallaby in Los Angeles, USA, 2013
Photo by Ashley Wailes Wallace
Before Church II from Conversion (Touch), live at Vor Frue Kirke, Aarhus, Denmark, 2013
Experimental Fuktion playing Labyrinthitis II live at Cosmo Caixa, (Sónar Festival), Barcelona, 2013
Jacob Kirkegaard performing Thrum Ethiopia live at Kunsthal 44, Møn, Denmark, 2013
Live at Teatro Maria Matos, Lisboa, Portugal, 2011
Jacob Kirkegaard @ La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain, 2010
Labyrinthitis live at Museum of Jurassic Technology, Los Angeles, USA, Sep 2008,
Jacob Kirkegaard - Labyirinthitis live at Issue Project Room, New York, 2008
16-channel live version of Labyrinthitis during Tuned City in Berlin, Germany, 2008
Acoustic Diagnostic' at the National Centre for Contemporary Arts., Kaliningrad, Russia, 2007
Jacob Kirkegaard & Phill Niblock live in New York City, USA, Sep 2006
Jacob Kirkegaard - Aion live at Suzanne Fiol's Issue Project Room, New York, 2006
Jacob Kirkegaard live at the Old Operating Theatre, London, UK, 2006
Jacob Kirkegaard live at RIXC in Riga, Latvia, 2006
DJ'ing shellac records at Touch 25th anniversary event, London, UK, 2006
Live in Lisboa, Portugal, 2006
Jacob Kirkegaard live in Lisboa, Portugal, 2006
Labyrinthitis live at Museum of Freud's Dreams, St. Petersburg, Russia, 2006
Artyom Ostapchuk & Jacob Kirkegaard live in St Petersburg, Russia, 2006
Aeter, live, Denmark and Sweden, 2001
Jacob Kirkegaard live at Moers Jazz Festival alongside Gry Bagøien, Andres Bosshard, David Shea, Fran Schulte, 2001
Aeter, live at LAB, Copenhagen, 2000
Aeter, live, Berlin, 1997
Aeter, live, Copenhagen, 1996
1993
Grindcore at Piratfisken, Esbjerg, Denmark, 1991
Live at RIAMUF, Ribe, Denmark, Sep 1990
In Denmark punk wasn't dead, yet, in 1989
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