<div dir="ltr"><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;display:inline!important;float:none;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/en/extra/jacob-kierkegaard/capsula"><b>New podcast: sound artist Jacob Kirkegaard on listening</b></a><br><br>In 2014, we interviewed Norwegian artist <b><span style="color:rgb(255,0,255)">Jacob Kirkegaard</span></b> as part of a research project entitled ON LISTENING. This podcast takes us back to that conversation.<br><br>Link: <a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/en/extra/jacob-kierkegaard/capsula">http://rwm.macba.cat/en/extra/jacob-kierkegaard/capsula</a><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"></span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;display:inline!important;float:none;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">With
 projects on the deserts of Oman, the Chernobyl 'zone of alienation', 
Arctic calving glaciers and the tones generated by the human inner ear 
itself, mapping out Jacob Kirkegaard's artistic practice is no easy 
task. He allows himself to be led by wonder, focusing on hidden or 
unheard layers of sound and sonic phenomena in highly charged contexts.</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;display:inline!important;float:none;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Kirkegaard
 uses accelerometers – special contact microphones that record the 
imperceptible vibrations of materials – to capture hidden resonances. He
 later works these sounds into compositions or mixed media installations
 that channel an access to an inner world, addressing complex and often 
conflicting realities from a neutral standpoint: it is just sound.</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;display:inline!important;float:none;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">A
 cluster of keywords may suggest an insight into his artistic practice: 
resonant frequencies; accelerometer; Fukushima; calving glacier; 
metalistening; space; Palestine; neutrality; radiation; John Cage, 
hydrophones, cochlear; layering; otoacoustic emissions; Arctic; rooms; 
disharmonic; sleep; nuclear; recording.</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;display:inline!important;float:none;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Kirkegaard
 is a graduate of the Academy for Media Arts in Cologne and a member of 
the sound art collective freq_out. He regularly collaborated with the 
late electronics pioneer Else Marie Pade. His first retrospective solo 
exhibition was held at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Roskilde, and 
he has presented his work at galleries, museums, and concert spaces 
throughout the world. His sound works have been released on labels such 
as TOUCH, Important Records, VON Archives and Posh Isolation.</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><b><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><b><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;display:inline!important;float:none;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">In
 this podcast, Kierkegaard reflects on the importance of listening and 
argues that sound art can create purely sensory spaces that go beyond 
our immediate perception, helping us to grasp the unfathomable.</span></b><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"></b><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><b style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Timeline</b><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;display:inline!important;float:none;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">02:04 The medium is not often the message</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;display:inline!important;float:none;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">06:48 Framing ressonant frequencies</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;display:inline!important;float:none;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">10:26 Maybe I never went to Chernobyl</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;display:inline!important;float:none;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">17:52 Sound as side effect<span class=""> </span></span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;display:inline!important;float:none;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">20:02 Isfald, 2013</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;display:inline!important;float:none;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">25:33 On neutrality<span class=""> </span></span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;display:inline!important;float:none;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">27:05 How to record a place</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;display:inline!important;float:none;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">31:51 Doubt, knowledge, wonder</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;display:inline!important;float:none;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">37:45 Ottoacoustic Emissions</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;display:inline!important;float:none;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">47:30 Earprint: Spontaneous Ottoacoustic Emissions</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;display:inline!important;float:none;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">53:43 If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;display:inline!important;float:none;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">56:09 "House of Mare", 2010<br><br><b><font size="6"><span style="color:rgb(255,0,255)"><br></span></font></b></span></span></font></div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;display:inline!important;float:none;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><b><font size="6"><span style="color:rgb(255,0,255)">Enjoy!</span></font></b><br></span></span></font></div>