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Ken Jacobs film with Manorexia score at Sundance

JGT — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 20:31:37 +0000

Ken Jacobs’ film Seeking The Monkey King, which has a score by JG Thirlwell, will be showing in the Short Film Program at the Sundance Film Festival. The score is drawn and re-edited from the Manorexia album Dinoflagellate Blooms. The New York Times said “ “Seeking the Monkey King” is a reminder that, in a world of continuously streaming images, an artist like Mr. Jacobs challenges the tyranny of visual uniformity, and not simply with angry words. His work opens your ears and mind, and, simply put, has no like in the multiplex, the art house or even most festivals.” The film was just cited as one of the best of 2011 by Village Voice critic J.Hoberman.

The film will show at the following times in Utah:

01/23/12 4:00 p.m. Redstone Cinema 7, Park City
01/24/12 9:00 p.m. Tower Theatre, Salt Lake City
01/25/12 5:30 p.m. Prospector Square Theatre, Park City
01/28/12 6:15 p.m. Holiday Village Cinema 2, Park City

Manorexia at Brooklyn Academy of Music Cafe

JGT — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 16:54:03 +0000

JG Thirlwell’s Manorexia will make a rare appearance with a performance at the Brooklyn Academy of Music Cafe on November 18 2011. The concert will be an extended program of material, drawn from all the Manorexia albums, and admission is free.

The musicians is Manorexia for this performance will be JG Thirlwell (laptop / compositions), Leyna Marika Papach (violin), Elena Moon Park (violin), Karen Waltuch (viola), Isabel Castellvi (cello), Peter Wise (percussion) and David Broome (keyboards).

The latest Manorexia album is Dinoflagellate Blooms, which is a double disc with the album in both stereo and 5.1 surround sound.

JGT vs DJ Food

JGT — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 13:29:14 +0000

Nov 17 2011 marks the release of Magpies, Maps and Moons, the new EP by DJ Food. The EP includes the track “Prey”, a collaboration by DJ Food with JG Thirlwell. DJ Food wrote and performed the music, with lyrics and vocals by Thirlwell. Released on Ninja Tune, the EP will be on 12″ vinyl and download, and is a precursor to a new DJ Food album to be released on Jan 16 2012 (which will also include “Prey”). The album will also feature Thirlwell compadre Matt Johnson.

DJ Food also remixed the track “Suspect” on the album 2002 Foetus remix album Blow .

Ken Jacobs with Manorexia score at the NY Film Festival

JGT — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 13:26:22 +0000

The new film by legendary avant-garde film maker Ken Jacobs is premiering at the New York Film Festival. The film uses the music of Manorexia as it’s soundtrack, drawn from the album Dinoflagellate Blooms. Entitled Seeking The Monkey King, it will premiere at the Walter Reade Theater in Lincoln Center NYC on October 7 2011, with an additional screening on Oct 10. Jacobs is perhaps best known for his film Star Spangled to Death, and has been experimenting in film since the 1950s. Presented as part of NYFF’s Views From The Avant Garde, Jacobs and Thirlwell will be on-hand for a Q and A after the screening of the premiere.

I’ll Be Your Mirror streaming mixtape

JGT — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 00:01:59 +0000

The All Tomorrow’s Parties “I’ll Be Your Mirror” music event, curated by Portishead, will occur in Asbury Park on Sep 30 – Oct 2. Manorexia will perform on Oct 2. To celebrate the event, All Tomorrows Parties are streaming a “mix-tape” of the artists that will appear.

Artists on the “mixtape” include Manorexia, Oneida, Portishead, Battles, A Hawk And A Hacksaw, Cults, Neutral Milk Hotel, Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra, Swans, Deerhoof, The Pop Group, Beak>, Chavez, DD/MM/YYYY, Hannibal Buress, Shellac, People Of The North, Anika, Earth, The Stars In His Head , Factory Floor, Company Flow, Thought Forms, and many more.

The lineup of Manorexia for the ATP show will be JG Thirlwell (laptop / compositions), Leyna Marika Papach (violin), Elena Moon Park (violin), Karen Waltuch (viola), Isabel Castellvi (cello), Peter Wise (percussion) and David Broome (keyboards).

JGT’s Split 7″ single with Teho Teardo

JGT — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 16:26:49 +0000

Santarcangelo is a split single between JG Thirlwell and Italian musician/composer Teho Teardo, It documents separate sound installations they did at the Santarcangelo festival in Italy a couple of years back. Released on Teardo’s Specula label, it is currently exclusively available from his website. The pressing is limited to 500 copies, one hundred of which are on blue vinyl.

Thirlwell’s piece on the single, entitled Ecclesiophobia, is a recording distilled down to six minutes from a three hour installation piece. This involved a bottle of water dripping onto a bass drum head through an intravenous attachment, which reflected ripples throughout a vaulted subterranean chamber and triggered a low frequency which resonated in another room. This was accompanied by a live manipulation of field recordings of church bells from the medieval town, along with other compositional elements, into a four channel installation.

JG Thirlwell guest lectures at NYU

JGT — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 16:24:57 +0000

JG Thirlwell will talk about his work at a Composers Forum at Julia Wolfe’s class at New York University at 6.45pm on September 19. 2011.

JG Tumbles

JGT — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 20:37:22 +0000

As if you needed to waste more time, you can now follow JG Thirlwell on Tumblr.

JG Thirlwell DJs for People Like Us on WFMU

JGT — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 20:59:33 +0000

JG Thirlwell has made a 30 minute DJ set for the Do or DIY with People Like Us radio show on WFMU. It will broadcast at 8pm eastern standard time on Aug 31 2011. DO or DIY is a freeform sound art radio show broadcast weekly by Vicki Bennett (aka People Like Us) which has been running on WFMU since 2003. JG cryptically described his DJ set as “darkly psychedelic”.

Listen to the replay at www.wfmu.org.

Manorexia’s “Dinoflagellate Blooms” now on iTunes and elsewhere

JGT — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 17:28:26 +0000

The highly acclaimed new Manorexia album Dinoflagellate Blooms is now available on iTunes, Amazon and other major digital retailers. The 62 minute album contains 11 tracks. Only the stereo version of the album is available digitally. For the full effect, we recommend you purchase the physical version which includes both stereo and 5.1 surround sound versions. The album will not be available on Spotify or other streaming services.