Iron Wind by Jacob Kirkegaard
IRON WIND
Composition from vibration recordings of iron fences along the Rhine around Cologne, Germany. The flowing river, the wind in the air and the large passing tugboats vibrate the fences and cause them to produce tones
Tracklist
| 1. | Iron Wind | 25:00 |
Credits
released April 14, 2021
Jacob Kirkegaard : Iron Wind (25 minutes, 2006 - 2015)
Originally composed in 2006 entitled Eisenwind and broadcast at WDR in Germany, a new version was released in 2015 as a now sold out tripple cassette album by Posh Isolation entitled 5 Pieces. The release contained five of Kirkegaard's previously unreleased works which all bear the signature sound of Kirkegaard's processed field recordings slowly evolving into carefully crafted drone works, rich in both detail and emotion.
Selected by ROLLING STONE as "20 Best Avant Albums of 2015":
Limited to just 200 copies but no less necessary, this three-cassette release anthologises five recent works by one of contemporary sound art's most subtle, intriguing figures. More artistically minded than field recordings, more naturally hewn than noise tapes, Kirkegaard amplifies hidden worlds into evocative drifts. The underwater recordings of Æsturarium turn Hudson River glubs and swirling sediments into a 29-minute white-noise suite; Iron Wind captures the vibrations of German fences for a haunting breath of ambience. Déjà Vu is a feedback conversation between eight empty rooms; Fool's Fire is an electrified needle picking up radio waves from crystals (it sounds like an orchestra of run-out grooves); and Under Bjerget is a 58-minute meditation for the rattling tubes in a Copenhagen basement, glacially moving from drone to pulse to rumble.
Jacob Kirkegaard, Eisenwind © 2006 / Iron Wind 2015
Jacob Kirkegaard : Iron Wind (25 minutes, 2006 - 2015)
Originally composed in 2006 entitled Eisenwind and broadcast at WDR in Germany, a new version was released in 2015 as a now sold out tripple cassette album by Posh Isolation entitled 5 Pieces. The release contained five of Kirkegaard's previously unreleased works which all bear the signature sound of Kirkegaard's processed field recordings slowly evolving into carefully crafted drone works, rich in both detail and emotion.
Selected by ROLLING STONE as "20 Best Avant Albums of 2015":
Limited to just 200 copies but no less necessary, this three-cassette release anthologises five recent works by one of contemporary sound art's most subtle, intriguing figures. More artistically minded than field recordings, more naturally hewn than noise tapes, Kirkegaard amplifies hidden worlds into evocative drifts. The underwater recordings of Æsturarium turn Hudson River glubs and swirling sediments into a 29-minute white-noise suite; Iron Wind captures the vibrations of German fences for a haunting breath of ambience. Déjà Vu is a feedback conversation between eight empty rooms; Fool's Fire is an electrified needle picking up radio waves from crystals (it sounds like an orchestra of run-out grooves); and Under Bjerget is a 58-minute meditation for the rattling tubes in a Copenhagen basement, glacially moving from drone to pulse to rumble.
Jacob Kirkegaard, Eisenwind © 2006 / Iron Wind 2015
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Sound artist and composer, born in DK 1975. Kirkegaard's sound works have been released on labels such as Important Records (USA), Touch (UK), mAtter (JAP) and Posh Isolation (DK). He is a founding member of the sound art collective freq_out as well as the not-for-profit arts organisation TOPOS. In 2016 Kirkegaard was the sound-artist-in-residency at St. John's College, University of Oxford, U.K.