{"id":22279,"date":"2026-08-05T23:45:57","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T23:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/?p=22279"},"modified":"2026-08-05T23:45:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T23:45:57","slug":"jg-thirlwell-performs-live-score-to-harry-smith-in-san-francisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/news\/jg-thirlwell-performs-live-score-to-harry-smith-in-san-francisco\/","title":{"rendered":"JG Thirlwell performs Live Score to Harry Smith in San Francisco"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On September 4 2026, JG Thirlwell<\/strong> will perform a live score to the legendary Harry Smith<\/strong> film Heaven and Earth Magic<\/em><\/strong> at the Gray Area Grand Theater <\/strong>in San Francisco for the Crossroads 2026<\/strong> Festival, presented by SF Cinematheque<\/strong>. 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.The program opens with Thirlwell\u2019s 2018 film Sonder<\/i><\/b>.<\/p>\n

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\u2019Etrange Film Festival<\/strong> in Paris and premiered there in 2024. Details are here<\/a><\/strong> and tickets will go on sale soon. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On September 4 2026, JG Thirlwell will perform a live score to the legendary Harry Smith film Heaven and Earth Magic at the Gray Area Grand Theater in San Francisco for the Crossroads 2026 Festival, presented by SF Cinematheque. Heaven and Earth Magic is a 1962 avant-garde stop-motion animation. Its surreal imagery, drawn from cutups […]<\/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":[2234,2235,2071,649,2233],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22279"}],"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=22279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22280,"href":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22279\/revisions\/22280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}