JG Thirlwell's "Imponderable" soundtrack out now!

IMPONDERABLE_front_site_2We are excited to announce the release of JG Thirlwell‘s soundtrack to the Tony Oursler film, Imponderable. The film Imponderable is currently being exhibited as a “5-D” cinematic installation at the Museum of Modern Art (from Jun 18 2016 – April 16 2017). The 14 track soundtrack album is available now on CD and digitally. The CD is packaged in a deluxe digipack with silver foil lettering and a 48 page color booklet containing stills from the film and images from Oursler’s archive of supernatural and occult phenomena. You can hear previews from the album here.

Tony Oursler is a renowned multimedia and video artist whose art covers a range of mediums. He and Thirlwell have collaborated on several other projects in the past, including Sound Digressions in Seven Colors (2006), and Oursler also produced acclaimed work for David Bowie, including videos and stage sets. Oursler’s works have been exhibited in many institutions including the Tate Modern, Centre Pompidou, MOCA Los Angeles, Hirshhorn Museum, Whitney Museum, Venice Bienale and elsewhere.

The album is available NOW exclusively from the Foetus Shoppe  and at the Museum of Modern Art.

JG Thirlwell scores Tony Oursler's "Imponderable" film, set for MOMA run

Imponderable_16JG Thirlwell has created the original musical score for Tony Oursler’s feature-length film/installation Imponderable, which will be screened as an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York from June 18 2016 until January 8 2017.

The original soundtrack album to Imponderable by JG Thirlwell will be released on Ectopic Ents in July 2016. It will be available from the Foetus Shoppe and at the Museum of Modern Art. It will be available on CD and digitally, and the CD will be packaged in deluxe digipack with silver foil lettering with a 48 page color booklet containing stills from the film and images from Oursler’s archive of supernatural and occult phenomena.

Tony Oursler’s Imponderable (2015–16) offers an alternative depiction of modernism that reveals the intersection of technological advancements and occult phenomena over the last two centuries. Presented in a “5-D” cinematic environment utilizing a contemporary form of Pepper’s ghost—a 19th-century phantasmagoric device—and a range of sensory effects, Imponderable is an immersive feature-length film inspired by Oursler’s own archive of ephemera relating to stage magic, spirit photography, pseudoscience, telekinesis, and other manifestations of the paranormal.

Tony Oursler is a multimedia and installation artist whose art covers a range of mediums working with video, sculpture, installation, performance and painting. He and Thirlwell have collaborated n several other projects in the past, including Sound Digressions in Seven Colors (2006).