JG Thirlwell has been hard at work throughout 2021 composing the brand new musical score for season 12 of Archer. You can experience it on August 25 2021 when Archer season 12 premieres on FXX, streaming the next day on Hulu! Check out the trailer here.
JG Thirlwell will be performing live in Chicago on Sep 11 2021 at Elastic Arts. Thirlwell will present his quadrophonic electro-acoustic project Silver Mantis project. For this project performs with electronics, theremin and prepared piano along with a projection created exclusively for the project by acclaimed Swedish visual artist Sten Backman. Tickets are just $10 here. Show is at 9pm. Elastic Arts is at 3429 West Diversey Avenue #208.
JG Thirlwell has created a site specific sound installation which is playing at The Foxhole in Visby, Sweden as part of GuteLjaudKarte 2021.
The 47 minute looped soundpiece runs 24 hours a day, seven days a week and is entitled In Memoriam. In Memoriam is inspired by Gotland and refracts the Swedish National Anthem into a cinematic processed lens which is in turns meditative and haunting.
The installation was commissioned by the Visby International Centre for Composers, and is operating from June 30 – August 31 2021. The Foxhole is located at Strandpromenaden, 621 55 Visby, Sweden
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Video for Xordox “Endeavor” launched
We are very proud to announce the launch of the Xordox video “Endeavor” from the album OMNIVERSE.
The video was shot by Benjamin Maddox entirely by drone and was edited by JG Thirlwell. It was filmed in New York, California, Iceland, Colombia, Bolivia and St. Maarten. View the video here. Please watch it full-screen!
You can hear purchase the Xordox album here. Enjoy!
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New Xordox Album Out Now!
Omniverse, the second album from JG Thirlwell‘s synthesizer-based project Xordox is now available. Omniverse has been years in the making, and was recorded primarily at Self Immolation Studios in Brooklyn and mixed with Al Carlson at Gary’s Electric. Thirlwell used both hardware and software synths, as well as Buchla and Serge modular synth recordings he created while in residence at EMS in Stockholm. The album was released by Editions Mego. The initial blue vinyl run on the LP is now sold out but it is available on black vinyl (with free download), CD and download. The vinyl contains a shorter version of the track ‘Oil Slick’, edited for the time constraints of the medium. The track is in its full 13 minute glory on the CD and download.
Buy it on CD, Vinyl or as a downloadable MP3 through the Shop or via Editions Mego.
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Venture Bros movie announced
Adult Swim has announced that it will be creating three feature length movies from some of it’s most popular shows, including Venture Bros. In the The Venture Bros. movie, “Doc’s latest invention will either bankrupt the Ventures or launch them to new heights, as Hank searches for himself, Dean searches for Hank, The Monarch searches for answers, and a mysterious woman from their pasts threatens to bring their entire world crashing down on them. ”
The film will get a release worldwide on Blu-ray/DVD and PVOD for 90 days before hitting HBO Max and Adult Swim.
Expect an exciting new exclusive score by JG Thirlwell.
The other films to be produced will be based in Metalocalypse and Aqua Team Hunger Force.
Anne Katrine Senstad’s ‘Radical Light – Elements VI’ opens at the Seinäjoen Taidehalli in Seinäjoki, Finland on June 16, 2021. The installation is accompanied by a sound composition by JG Thirlwell enveloping the vast light sculptural matrices and the sensory chamber in a unifying sensation of vastness and electric impulses of spatial noise and poetic grandeur!
JG Thirlwell was invited by Laurie Anderson to contribute a one hour DJ set to a 6 hour program she is curating for NTS Radio’s 10th anniversary to benefit the Homeless. Laurie’s program will air Thursday April 22 2021 from 7am – 1pm EST (12noon – 6pm BST). JG Thirlwell’s set, which has the theme “Zeuhl and Beyond”, will air at 11am EST (4pm BST). The full program will also include DJ sets from Jenny Hval, Museum of Love, Arto Lindsay, Anohni and Laurie herself. You can listen to the show here
JG Thirlwell has been nominated for a Golden Reel Award. JG was nominated in the category “Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Animation Short Form” for the Archer Episode “Cold Fusion” from Season 11, along with sound editors JC Richardson and Pierre Cerrato. The Golden Reel Awards recognize sound artists in 22 categories spanning film, TV, cartoons, computer entertainment and student productions.
JG Thirlwell has created music inspired by artist Malia Jensen’s show Nearer Nature. You can the hear music it on this video which describes the show. Jensen’s show is now on view at Cristin Tierney Gallery in NYC until April 3 2021.