Jacob Kirkegaard

Ambient sound sculptor and photographer Jacob Kirkegaard creates works that thematically engage the human perception of hearing from field recordings. He captures sound and vibration in order to signify the energy of place. He reveals as tangible the sounds of geysers, desert sands, melting icebergs, the ruins of Chernobyl and Fukushima, and other places normally off-limits or inaccessible, and makes them all tangible. Encountering his work on its terms results in reencountering the world we live in. Key works include 2005's Eldfjall, consisting of geothermal vibrations record...