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D​é​jà Vu

by Jacob Kirkegaard

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DÉJÀ VU

Jacob Kirkegaard 25 minutes © 2014


Déjà Vu is a composition made from recordings used in Speculum Speculi.
Speculum Speculi was composed in 2009 and broadcast on Deutschlandradio Kultur.


At Deutschlandradio in Berlin in 2009, Kirkegaard turned on the microphones and speakers in eight empty broadcasting studios and connected them to create a circular chain reaction:
Studio 1 broadcast its own ambient sound into Studio 2. Studio 2 picked up the broadcast of the ambient sound of Studio 1 along with its own ambient sound and broadcast this into Studio 3. Then Studio 3 broadcast the ambient sound of Studio 1, 2 and 3 into Studio 4… and so forth, until the eight gathered broadcasts of the ambient sound of all eight studios were ultimately broadcast back into Studio 1.
From a separate radio studio, Kirkegaard could control the amplitude and equalisation of the feedback broadcast of each one of the eight empty radio studios


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released April 14, 2021
Originally released in 2015 as a now sold out tripple cassette 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.

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Jacob Kirkegaard Copenhagen, Denmark

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. ... more

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