wikipedia.org: "Jacob Kirkegaard is a sound artist born in 1975 in Denmark, living in Berlin, Germany. Kirkegaard's sound works focus on investigations into the potential musicality in hidden sound layers in the environment. In this context he has been capturing and exploring sounds from, for example, volcanic earth, ice, atmospheric phenomena, nuclear power plants and deserted places. Recording tools used include accelometers, hydrophones and home-built electromagnetic receivers." Read on

fonik.dk: A radio piece for (German Radio) WDR - Studio Acoustic Art. Commissioned and broadcasted 2006. Eisenwind consists of recordings of iron fences stretching along the Cologne Rhine river in Germany. The movement of water, wind and passing ships make the iron fences vibrate and thereby to emit subtle tones. Attaching highly sensitive contact microphones (accelerometers) on the iron Jacob Kirkegaard recorded the hundreds of meters of fences throughout a period of four years. Unfolding the resonating body of the fences is the immense force of the Rhine river acoustically brought to life."

Eisenwind became available as a free download via WDR's homepage

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