Jakob Heinemann: Guest Artist Set | EDME: New Music Festival 2025

"I was born 1995 in Madison, Wisconsin, I am a multidisciplinary artist, working in the areas of sound art, free improvisation, avant garde composition, photography and acoustic ecology. Much of my work centers on sonic communion as a means of cultural exchange and solidarity, using sound to understand the community and environments we inhabit as well as our relationships therein. A double bass player, I am deeply committed to improvisation, with roots in the free jazz community of Chicago. My compositions tend to reflect this spirit of collaboration. They frequently utilize open scoring to create a participatory framework inclusive of both performer and composer, as well as field recordings and spectral analysis to document a sense of place in a radically changing environment.

I have sat on the board of the Midwest Society of Acoustic Ecology since 2023, and founded the monthly free improvisation series All The Sounds Are Done in Madison, WI. I have been lucky to find support for my work from the Swiss Arts Council, Madison Arts Commission, Chicago DCASE and others. I currently reside in Los Angeles, where I am pursuing an MFA in Composition and Experimental Sound Practices at California Institute of the Arts. I have released music on Clean Feed Records, Ruination Recording Co, Party Perfect, Aerophonic Records, as well as my own imprint, Kashe Editions." - Jakob Heinemann

Performed by Jakob Heinemann

From New Music Festival 2025, Concert 1

https://jakobheinemann.com/
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