{"id":22025,"date":"2025-10-25T17:23:53","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T17:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/?p=22025"},"modified":"2025-10-25T17:23:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T17:23:53","slug":"thirlwell-performs-live-score-to-harry-smith-film-in-woodstock-ny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/news\/thirlwell-performs-live-score-to-harry-smith-film-in-woodstock-ny\/","title":{"rendered":"Thirlwell Performs Live Score To Harry Smith Film In Woodstock NY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-22024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/vertical_06679903-6d8b-484e-9aac-5e02ba268ae0-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/vertical_06679903-6d8b-484e-9aac-5e02ba268ae0-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/vertical_06679903-6d8b-484e-9aac-5e02ba268ae0-100x148.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/vertical_06679903-6d8b-484e-9aac-5e02ba268ae0-21x31.jpg 21w, https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/vertical_06679903-6d8b-484e-9aac-5e02ba268ae0-26x38.jpg 26w, https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/vertical_06679903-6d8b-484e-9aac-5e02ba268ae0-145x215.jpg 145w, https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/vertical_06679903-6d8b-484e-9aac-5e02ba268ae0-142x210.jpg 142w, https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/vertical_06679903-6d8b-484e-9aac-5e02ba268ae0.jpg 675w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On November 15 2025, <strong>JG Thirlwell<\/strong> will perform a live score to the legendary <strong>Harry Smith<\/strong> film <strong><em>Heaven and Earth Magic<\/em><\/strong> at the <strong>Tinker St Cinema<\/strong> in Woodstock. <em>Heaven and Earth Magic<\/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.<\/p>\n<p>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 <strong>L\u2019Etrange Film Festival<\/strong> in Paris and premiered there in 2024. This is the first performance on the West Coast.<\/p>\n<p>Opening the show will be<strong> Nick Malkin<\/strong> whose practice focuses primarily on the interplay between found sound, field recordings and electronic instrumentation.<br \/>\nVisuals by <strong>Tommy Grenas<\/strong> (<strong>Anubian Lights<\/strong>)<\/p>\n<p>Tickets available <a href=\"https:\/\/ticketing.useast.veezi.com\/purchase\/1459?siteToken=4e7hcqnzzn7g3mh9xmjz297bwg\">h<strong>ere<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/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":[2181,2071,2158,649,2152,2179,2178,2180],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22025"}],"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=22025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22026,"href":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22025\/revisions\/22026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}