JG Thirlwell brings Silver Mantis to Sydney

JG Thirlwell will bring his Silver Mantis project to Sydney on Sept 27 2023 with a free concert as part of the Volume Festival at Art Gallery of New South Wales.

There will also be separate performances the same day by Corinne and Arthur Cantrill, amby downs, Ellen Fullman and Theresa Wong, Lisa Lerkenfeldt, Loren Mazzacane Connors, Primitive Motion, Saint Abdullah. The program is curated by Lawrence English of Room 40 Records.

This is the first time that Thirlwell has performed in Sydney.

freq_spark sound art project launches 03.31.23

freq_spark (four corners) is a new collective sound work curated by CM Von Hausswolff, consisting of audio pieces inspired by fire and deforestation by 48 sound artists and composers. It is a new iteration of the freq_out project that began in 2002. It will be presented as a composition of four digital sound mixers as an interactive installation. freq_spark can be accessed and operated on the internet at http://bilting.se/freq_spark/

The participating artists are JG Thirlwell,The Qitzi, Christine Ödlund, Tommi Grönlund/Petteri Nisunen, melanieisdemented, Kiwa Noid, Mont Cotton Son, Anna Cherednikova, Christopher Chaplin, Chandra ShuklaMalte Dahlberg, Maia Urstad, Permagnus Lindborg, e-gwam, Girls From The North Country, Ink Void, Finnbogi Petursson, Jana Winderen, Niklas Breimert, HER, Jacob Kirkegaard, Lina Lundquist, Christina Kubisch, Klara Lewis, Simon Sjöström, Pomassl/Anna Ceeh, Sofia Zwahlen, Sucre, Nadine Byrne, Stella Dieden Richter, Yan Jun, Hot Surface, Milton Lewis, Jónsi, Leona Cauklija, Bana Haffar, Leif Elggren, Lawrence English, Jesper Vesterlund, Tilde Björk, Dorit Chrysler, ASH, Tetsuo Furudate, Aron Fogelström, Rana Kadry, Ulf Bilting, Niels Engström and Leif Jordansson.

freq_spark will launch with a concert and  event on Friday March 31 2023 at 16.30, at Rutiga Golvet in The Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm, Sweden.

freq_wave (Pacific; Los Angeles)

In September 2022 JG Thirlwell will be taking part in the sound art project freq_wave (Pacific; Los Angeles) 

freq_wave (Pacific; Los Angeles) is an immersive installation by pioneering new media and conceptual artist, Carl Michael von Hausswolff, who will transform the interior of the 100-inch Telescope at Mount Wilson Observatories with a visual and sound installation. The project brings together twelve individual sound works by twelve artists, each operating within a unique frequency range based on field recordings from the Pacific Ocean and amplified to act as a single, generative sonic zone.

The artists participating will include Greg Anderson, Jana Winderen, Minoru Sato, Jimena Sarno, Bethan Kellough, Tom Recchion, JG Thirlwell, Alba Triana, Jónsi, Lawrence English, Yan Jun and Richard Chartier.

freq_wave is part of the Fulcrum Festival. The installation will be open from 11am-5pm at Mt Wilson Observatory, Sep 23-25 2022.

freq_wave rises

freq_wave: seven seas is a collaborative sound project unleashing 84 rogue sound artists for the Ocean.

Curated by Carl Michael von Hausswolff, co-curated by Alonso Alonso Vazquez and commissioned by TBA21-Academy, the project will gradually unfold on the online platform Ocean Archive.

freq_wave: seven seas will launch in seven editions oceanic trajectory featuring the work of 12 sound artists and artist groups united in a monster wave to bring oceanic creativity to the fore.
“freq_wave: seven seas” takes the form of a web-based mixer where you can manipulate your own version of the piece.

JG Thirlwell appears on the second edition of freq_wave.