JG Thirlwell is a composer/producer/performer based in Brooklyn, who also works under many pseudonyms including Foetus, Steroid Maximus, Manorexia, Baby Zizanie, Hydroze Plus, Clint Ruin and Wiseblood. If there is a common thread to his varied musical styles, it is a dramatic intensity and an evocative, cinematic quality. Thirlwell is also featured as producer or remixer on a wide variety of artist recordings, including releases for artists as diverse as Nine Inch Nails, Excepter, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Lydia Lunch, The The, White Zombie, Coil, Z’s, and Swans. JG has completed commissions for Kronos Quartet, Bang On A Can and League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots and is also a member of the “freq_out” sound-art collective, who create on-site sound and light installations. Thirlwell received a 2010 New York Foundation of the Arts Fellowship in Music/Sound. He performs live with a chamber version of his Manorexia project, and also scores “The Venture Brothers”, a cartoon on Adult Swim/Cartoon Network. For more info please visit www.foetus.org
