Jacob Kirkegaard: two haunting sound works

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photo: from Kirkegaard's bandcamp profile

“The work of Danish composer, sound artist, and field recordist Jacob Kirkegaard explores ways to reflect on complex, unnoticed, or unapproachable conditions and environments […] His works have treated themes such as radioactivity in Chornobyl, Ukraine, melting ice in the Arctic, border walls in global and metaphorical contexts, immersive acoustic explorations into global waste management, and processes related to when a human being dies” (from the biography of Kirkegaard into his website).

Here, I consider two new works of Kirkegaard: Snowblind and