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JG Thirlwell brings Silver Mantis to Colchester Arts Centre

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We are excited to announce that JG Thirlwell will be presenting his surround sound Silver Mantis project at the Colchester Arts Centre in England on Friday August 18 2023.

The Colchester Arts Centre is located at Church Street, Colchester in Essex

Silver Mantis is a 50 minute live surround-sound electro-acoustic presentation, performed with keyboards, prepared piano and theremin. It is performed with a projection created exclusively for the project by acclaimed Swedish visual artist Sten Backman.
Tickets are available here. Photo by Lenny Nasekailo.

JG Thirlwell’s Silver Mantis project in St Louis

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We are excited to announce that JG Thirlwell will be presenting his surround sound Silver Mantis project in St Louis, Missouri on Monday January 16 2023.
The performance will take place at O’Connell’s 4652 Shaw Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63110 at 8.00pm.
 
Eric Hall & NNN Cook open

Silver Mantis is a 50 minute live surround-sound electro-acoustic presentation, performed with keyboards, prepared piano and theremin. It is performed with a projection created exclusively for the project by acclaimed Swedish visual artist Sten Backman.

Photo by Matthew Nihil

JG Thirlwell’s Silver Mantis project in Orlando FL

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We are excited to announce that JG Thirlwell will be presenting his surround sound Silver Mantis project in Orlando, Florida on Friday December 9 2022.

The performance will take place at Timucua, 2000 S. Summerlin Ave., Orlando, FL 32806 at 7.30pm.
 
Silver Mantis is a 50 minute live surround-sound electro-acoustic presentation, performed with keyboards, prepared piano and theremin. It is performed with a projection created exclusively for the project by acclaimed Swedish visual artist Sten Backman.
 
Tickets are available here

Xordox live in NYC 11.30.22

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JG Thirlwell’s Xordox will be performing on NYC on November 30 2022 at TV Eye in Ridgewood, Queens. Xordox will be performing material from the albums Omniverse and Neospection. For this iteration of Xordox, JGT will be joined by long-time ally Simon Hanes (Tredici Bacci), with sensational visuals from Sten Backman. The evening will start with a set by Kill Alters (solo), aka the amazing Bonnie Baxter. This is the only Xordox show of 2022! Purchase tickets here.

JG Thirlwell’s Silver Mantis project in Los Angeles

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We are excited to announce that JG Thirlwell will be presenting his surround sound Silver Mantis project in Los Angeles on September 25 2022 .
The performance will take place at 2220 Arts, 2220 Beverly Blvd Los Angeles 90057. The evening will begin with a special guest performance by Noveller aka Sarah Lipstate.
 
Silver Mantis is a 50 minute live surround-sound electro-acoustic presentation, performed with keyboards, prepared piano and theremin. It is performed with a projection created exclusively for the project by acclaimed Swedish visual artist Sten Backman.
 
Tickets are available here .

JG Thirlwell brings ‘Silver Mantis’ to Woodstock

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JG Thirlwell will perform his surround sound Silver Mantis project at the Tinker Street Cinema in Woodstock, NY on June 11 2022 at 8pm. Tickets are available here.

Silver Mantis is a 50 minute electro-acoustic presentation, performed with software and sampling and theremin. It is an immersive multi channel composition which allows for an elastic performance. Incorporating musique concrète and electronic sound along with live instrumentation, the composition is dynamic, cinematic and diverse with stylistic left-turns, creating a tension between time and anxiety.

It is performed with a projection created exclusively for the project by acclaimed Swedish visual artist Sten Backman.

Silver Mantis has been performed at Cafe Oto in London, Roulette in NYC and Elastic Arts in Chicago.

Thirlwell performs Silver Mantis project in Chicago

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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 brings ‘Silver Mantis’ project to London

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JG Thirlwell presents the European premiere of his new ‘Silver Mantis’ project on October 20 2019 at Cafe Oto in London. ‘Silver Mantis’ is a four channel solo performance using prepared piano, electronics, and theremin, performed in front of immersive new visuals by Swedish visual artist Sten Backman. A truncated version of ‘Silver Mantis’ was presented at Roulette  in NYC in July but this will be the debut of the full length version. Tickets are available here, just £8 in advance or £10 at the door.

 

JG Thirlwell performs at Roulette’s 40th Season benefit celebration

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Roulette_509-Atlantic-Avenue_ExteriorJG Thirlwell is proud to announce that he will be performing at a special benefit concert to celebrate the end of Roulette’s 40th Season on July 21 2019. Thirlwell will be performing a new solo set with electronics, prepared piano and theremin in front of an immersive backdrop of new visuals created by Sten Backman. The bill  also includes John Zorn’s Simulacrum (featuring John Medeski, Matt Hollenberg and Kenny Grohowski) as well as a solo set by John Medeski plus Val Jeanty and Fay Victor.

The previous night of the two day festival will feature performances by Ikue Mori & Craig Taborn, Matana Roberts, Nels Cline with Zeena Parkins and the Sylvie Courvoisier Trio (with Drew Gress and Kenny Wollesen).

Roulette is located at 509 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn NY 11217.

Tickets are available here.

Xordox with The The at the Beacon Theater NYC

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The The Xordox MarquisJG Thirlwell‘s Xordox project opened for The The at the gorgeous Beacon Theater in New York City on Sep 17 2018. The The’s date was in the middle of their Comeback Special tour, with The The head honcho Matt Johnson playing his first live dates in fifteen years.

For the Xordox set, Thirlwell was joined onstage by Simon Hanes on keys, and Sten Backman created the visuals that Xordox performed in front of.