Jacob Kirkegaard is a Danish artist who focuses on the scientific and aesthetic aspects of resonance, time, sound and hearing. His installations, compositions and performances deal with acoustic spaces and phenomena that usually remain imperceptible. Using unorthodox recording tools, including accelerometers, hydrophones and home-built electromagnetic receivers, Kirkegaard captures and contextualizes hitherto unheard sounds from within a variety of environments : a geyser, a sand dune, a nuclear power plant, an empty room, a TV tower, and even sounds from the human inner ear itself.

Based in Berlin, Kirkegaard is a graduate of the Academy for Media Arts in Cologne, Germany. Since 1995, Kirkegaard has presented his works at exhibitions and at festivals and conferences throughout the world. He has released five albums (mostly on the British label Touch) and is a member of the sound art collective freq_out.




If you are not familiar with the works of Jacob Kirkegaard these two works might tune you in:

Jacob Kirkegaard's work LABYRINTHITIS is an interactive sound piece that consists entirely of sounds generated in the artist’s own ears – and will cause audible responses in the ears of the audience. This paradoxical piece invites reversed hearing and turns your ears into musical instruments.

AION is a video & sound work based on resonance recordings of abandoned rooms inside the radioative exclusion zone in Chernobyl, Ukraine.