JG Thirlwell » Jacob Kirkegaard http://foetus.org/content Foetus, Steroid Maximus, Manorexia, Venture Bros. and More Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:59:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 The long-awaited return of freq_out http://foetus.org/content/news/the-long-awaited-return-of-freq_out/ http://foetus.org/content/news/the-long-awaited-return-of-freq_out/#comments Mon, 10 Oct 2011 13:51:45 +0000 JGT http://foetus.org/content/?p=3445 The first freq_out installation in three years will occur in Stockholm at the Moderna Museet in February 2012. For freq_out 8, curated by Carl Michael Von Hausswolf, the participating artists will include JG Thirlwell, Jacob Kirkegaard, Mike Harding, Jana Winderen, Finnbogi Pétursson, Kent Tankred, Franz Pomassl, Maia Urstad, Brandon Labelle, Permagnus Lindborg, Petteri Nisunen and Tommi Grönlund.

freq_out is a sound installation comprised of 12 individual sound works each utilizing a specific frequency range, made on site, and amplified to act as a single, generative sound-space. The last freq_out event, freq_out 7, took place in September 2008 as part of the Happy New Ears festival in Kortrijk, Belgium. Previous freq_out actions have occurred in Berlin, Paris, Chiang Mai, Budapest, Copenhagen and Oslo.

 

]]> http://foetus.org/content/news/the-long-awaited-return-of-freq_out//feed 0 Kronos perform JG Thirlwell at Carnegie Hall http://foetus.org/content/news/kronos-perform-jg-thirlwell-at-carnegie-hall/ http://foetus.org/content/news/kronos-perform-jg-thirlwell-at-carnegie-hall/#comments Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:44:34 +0000 JGT http://foetus.org/content/?p=1364 Kronos Quartet will be performing a newly commissioned piece by JG Thirlwell at Zankel Hall in Carnegie Hall in New York City on March 12. Entitled Eremikophobia, which means fear of deserts and sand, the multi-movement eighteen minute piece will open the evening. The evening’s program also features toy piano virtuoso Margaret Leng Tan and Portuguese instrument builder Victor Gama. To conclude, Kronos will be joined by Matmos in a tribute to Terry Riley.

Read further, buy tickets and see a clip of David Harrington of Kronos Quartet talking about the evening here. Additionally, you can read Thirlwell’s notes about his composition . There are currently no plans to record Eremikophobia, so don’t miss it!

Update 03/14/2010: JGT thanks everyone who came out to the Kronos Quartet concert at Carnegie Hall last Friday for the premiere of “Eremikophobia”, and discusses his composition.

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