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JG Thirlwell joins Elliot Sharp and others performing Christian Marclay for Harvestworks

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JG Thirlwell will be joining Elliot Sharp, Melvin Gibbs, Kalun Leung and Judith Insell in creating a live score for Christian Marclay‘s Screenplay. Screenplay is a video score in which found film footage is combined with computer animation to create a visual projection interpreted by live musicians. 

The performance will be part of an event honoring Carol Parkinson‘s 37 years as executive director of the NYC arts organization Harvestworks on the occasion of her retirement.

The program will also feature Henry Threadgill, a celebrated composer and saxophonist widely recognized for his groundbreaking contributions to avant-garde jazz and contemporary music, performing an intimate solo flute composition. In addition Lori Napoleon (Antenes) will give a live analogue synthesizer performance. The evening will conclude with a vinyl DJ set from Yo Vinyl Richie.

The event will happen at Issue Project Room 22 Boerum Place Brooklyn, NY on April 25 2026 beginning at 6pm. Tickets here.

JG Thirlwell & Anne Senstad In Conversation event NYC

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JG Thirlwell and Anne Katrine Senstad will be in conversation, with multi-disciplinary artist Victoria Keddie moderation, on March 4 2026 from 5.30-7pm . The talk will occur at the site of  Anne Katrine Senstad‘s new sculptural light installation Baroque Apocalypse. JG Thirlwell provides the sound environment for the piece. Baroque Apocalypse is installed at the Sylvia Wald & Po Kim Gallery at 417 Lafayette St 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10003.You can RSVP for the event at info@waldandkimgallery.org

JGT brings Silver Mantis to Philadelphia 06.13.26

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JG Thirlwell will be performing his Silver Mantis project at PhilaMOCA in Philadelphia on June 13 2026. Tickets will be available soon

Silver Mantis is a 50 minute electro-acoustic presentation, performed with software and sampling, theremin. For this show JGT will be premiering his new modified acoustic sound design decices. It is an immersive multi channel composition which allows for an elastic performance. It’s performed with a projection created exclusively for the project by acclaimed Swedish visual artist Sten Backman.

Xordox perform at Abasement in NYC April 2026

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JG Thirlwell‘s Xordox project will make an appearance with a special performance at the popular Abasement series of experimental music at Artists Space at 11 Cortlandt Alley in Lower Manhattan. In this live iteration of Xordox, Thirlwell is joined by Rebecca El-Saleh (Kitba).

Xordox will play on a packed bill with Hans Tammen, Dreamcrusher with Samantha Riot and Leo Chang.

The show is happening on April 6 2026 and admission is free. Come early the show is sure to be packed. Photo by Nikki Sneakers.

JG Thirlwell provides new four channel sound piece for Senstad installation

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JG Thirlwell created a new exclusive four channel sound piece for Norwegian artist Anne Katrine Senstad‘s new sculptural light installation Baroque Apocalypse.

Baroque Apocalypse will be installed at the Sylvia Wald & Po Kim Gallery at 417 Lafayette St 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10003. The opening reception is February 11,2026 from 6-8 pm 


The exhibition will be on view from February 11 to April 18 2026.

Video for Foetus “Succulence” out now!

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The lyric video for the Foetus song “Succulence“, was just published on JG Thirlwell’s YouTube channel. “Succulence” is featured on the new Foetus album HALT.
The video was produced, created and directed by JG Thirlwell.
The music on “Succulence”is composed, produced, engineered and performed by JG Thirlwell. All instruments played by JG Thirlwell except drums, which are played by Brian Chase of Yeah Yeah Yeahs. 
 
The first part of the song is a reference to “sound off”, which is a call and response chant that is employed by the military during basic training. As the troops march or jog, the commander shouts a phrase and the troops echo the phrase in unison.
 
The Foetus album HALT is available at the Foetus Shoppe as double colored vinyl, deluxe digipack and digital.

JG Thirlwell works on Sylvie Fleury installation for Performa

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JG Thirlwell will be providing a composition and live sound processing to Sylvie Fleury‘s new interdisciplinary installation Instructions For Twilight. The work was commissioned by the Performa Biennial and will occur on November 22 and 23 at Water Street Projects WSA, 180 Maiden Lane in New York, on the 39th Floor.

For Instructions For Twilight, Fleury “takes the history of action-based performance, including Fluxus and Happenings, as a point of departure to reimagine a series of scores with her own inimitable twist on gender roles, serving as inspiration for a performance combining action, objects, and sound, with performers wearing costumes designed by Chris Peters.”

The work is co-produced with WSA and curated by Kathy Noble of Performa.

Sylvie Fleury’s Performa Commission is made possible with the generous support of Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Ford Foundation, Consulate General of Switzerland, Pro Helvetia, and Performa Commissioning Council Members Thaddaeus Ropac, Valeria Napoleone, and Jade Netanya Ullmann. 

You can purchase tickets here

Thirlwell Performs Live Score To Harry Smith Film In Woodstock NY

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On November 15 2025, JG Thirlwell will perform a live score to the legendary Harry Smith film Heaven and Earth Magic at the Tinker St Cinema in Woodstock. Heaven and Earth Magic is a 1962 avant-garde stop-motion animation. Its surreal imagery, drawn from cutups of 19th century catalogs, has a mystical and hypnotic quality that has entranced viewers for decades.

This will be a solo performance by Thirlwell in immersive four channel sound, performed on keyboards with computer / sample programs and theremin. The score was commissioned by L’Etrange Film Festival in Paris and premiered there in 2024. This is the first performance on the West Coast.

Opening the show will be Nick Malkin whose practice focuses primarily on the interplay between found sound, field recordings and electronic instrumentation.
Visuals by Tommy Grenas (Anubian Lights)

Tickets available here

Soft Cell + JG Thirlwell “Ghost Rider” Limited Twelve inch Single

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Soft Cell is releasing a Limited Edition Colored Vinyl 12″ of their cover of the Suicide classic “Ghost Rider” with JG Thirlwell on guest vocals and Gary Barnacle on sax.

In 1983 and 1984 Thirlwell performed the song with Soft Cell live many times, and on the TV show The Switch in the UK.  It was performed again for the first time in nearly 40 years at Soft Cell’s show at the Beacon Theater in NYC in 2022, which led to the recording of Ghost Rider for the first time with Marc Almond, JG Thirlwell and Gary Barnacle recording their parts over Dave Ball’s original backing track, all of which has been freshly mixed for 2025 by Dave and Philip Larsen.

Tracklisting:
A1 Ghost Rider (with JG Thirlwell & Gary Barnacle)
A2 Ghost Rider (Marc’s Version)
B1 Ghost Rider (Dubbed Out Version)
B2 Ghost Rider (Original 1983 Backing Track)

Buy it here

Thirlwell performs live score to Harry Smith film at Brain Dead Studios in Los Angeles

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On October 19 2025, JG Thirlwell will perform a live score to the legendary Harry Smith film Heaven and Earth Magic at Brain Dead Studios in Los Angeles. Heaven and Earth Magic is a 1962 avant-garde stop-motion animation. Its surreal imagery, drawn from cutups of 19th century catalogs, has a mystical and hypnotic quality that has entranced viewers for decades.
 
This will be a solo performance by Thirlwell in immersive four channel sound, performed on keyboards with computer / sample programs and theremin. The score was commissioned by L’Etrange Film Festival in Paris and premiered there in 2024. This is the first performance on the West Coast.
 
The evening will open with a rare screening of Thirlwell’s 11-minute film Sonder, which was commissioned by the Frekvens Film Symposium in Gotland, Sweden in 2018. Sonder was conceived, directed and scored by Thirlwell and filmed by Sebastian Mlynarski.
Tickets available here