{"id":21996,"date":"2025-09-21T12:12:30","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T12:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/?p=21996"},"modified":"2025-09-21T12:16:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T12:16:14","slug":"thirlwell-performs-live-score-to-harry-smith-film-at-brain-dead-studios-in-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/news\/thirlwell-performs-live-score-to-harry-smith-film-at-brain-dead-studios-in-los-angeles\/","title":{"rendered":"Thirlwell performs live score to Harry Smith film at Brain Dead Studios in Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"On October 19 2025, JG Thirlwell<\/strong> will perform a live score to the legendary Harry Smith<\/strong> film Heaven and Earth Magic<\/strong><\/em> at Brain Dead Studios<\/strong> in Los Angeles. Heaven and Earth Magic <\/strong><\/em>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.
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\nThis 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\u2019Etrange Film Festiva<\/strong>l in Paris and premiered there in 2024. This is the first performance on the West Coast.
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\nThe evening will open with a rare screening of Thirlwell\u2019s 11-minute film Sonder<\/strong><\/em>, which was commissioned by the Frekvens Film Symposium in Gotland, Sweden in 2018. Sonder<\/strong><\/em> was conceived, directed and scored by Thirlwell and filmed by Sebastian Mlynarski<\/strong>.
\nTickets available here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[18],"tags":[2160,2071,2158,649,2159,1166,1201],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21996"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21996"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22001,"href":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21996\/revisions\/22001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}