Biography

Jacob Kirkegaard (born 1975) is a Danish artist and composer who works in carefully selected environments to generate recordings that are used in compositions, or combined with video imagery in visual, spatial installations. His works reveal unheard sonic phenomena and present listening as a means of experiencing the world. Kirkegaard has recorded sonic environments as different as subterranean geyser vibrations, empty rooms in Chernobyl, calving Arctic glaciers, and tones generated by the human inner ear. Kirkegaard has presented his works at galleries, museums, and concert spaces throughout the world, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art and ARoS in Denmark; KW, Berlin; the Menil Collection and the Rothko Chapel in Houston, Texas; and the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo.

Thanks to Jeffrey Moore, Paul Geimer, and Erik Stanfield.