Jacob Kirkegaard is a Danish sound artist in search for the audible inaudible. His research has taken him to the alienated zone of Chernobyl, and to the desert of Oman, where he traced the myth of the singing sands. In a collaboration with medical specialists he researched the sounds our inner ear produces when exposed to two frequencies of a certain ratio.
In other projects, he used accelerometers to record the sound of movement in a frozen lake or volcanic earth layers.


Taking shape in records, sound installations, and photographs, the seemingly purely rational, scientific undertakings reveal an appealing element of mysticism and storytelling. “My quest is exploration, not necessarily always conclusions. I make presentations of these journeys.”, he is quoted in an interview report in the July issue of The Wire Magazine.