YVETTE JANINE JACKSON

Recipient of the 2025 Herb Alpert Award in the Arts

The Music panel celebrates composer and sound artist Yvette Janine Jackson for “the imaginative ways she synthesizes ideas that give shape to lived human experience, for her cinematic dramaturgy, and the deep relationship between research and expression always beautifully troubling and passionately felt, providing a pathway for understanding the complexities of our nation’s history.”

“Any smart Hollywood producer would immediately snap up Jackson to provide film soundtracks, but her work requires no visual explanation.” -The Guardian (John Lewis)

ABOUT

ENSEMBLE & ORCHESTRA

RECORDINGS

Film & TV

RADIO OPERA WORKSHOP

INSTALLATIONS

SELECTED MEDIA

A complete list of works and additional audio is available upon request.  Read about recent projects here.

ARTICLES

Yvette Janine Jackson Looks to the Cosmos in Double Bill of Radio Operas at Roulette (Donna Lee Davidson, I Care If You Listen, January 24, 2024)

Because we are black, we are making black music (Hannah Edgar, Chicago Reader, September 6, 2023)

When We Talk About Black History We Must Include Music (D’Shonda Brown, Essence, June 25, 2021)

Does Climate Change Have a Sound? (Alvin Powell, The Harvard Gazette, June 22, 2021)

Freedom Review (Bookmat, March 30, 2021)

Yvette Janine Jackson: Freedom (Kevin Le Gendre, Jazzwise, March 23, 2021)

Best of Bandcamp Contemporary Classical: February 2021 (Peter Margasak, Bandcamp, March 4, 2021)

Yvette Janine Jackson’s Radio Operas are a Conversation Between Past and Present (Vanessa Ague, Bandcamp Daily, February 10, 2021)

Yvette Janine Jackson: Freedom review (Jesse Dorris, Pitchfork, January 29, 2021)

ALBUM REVIEW: Yvette Janine Jackson – ‘Freedom’: two suites of free expression of the Black experience (Chris Sawle, Backseat Mafia, January 20, 2021)

Yvette Janine Jackson: Freedom review – vivid voyage through hate (John Lewis, The Guardian, January 15, 2021)

Freedom: Yvette Janine Jackson as Cartographer of Sonic Expeditions (Donna Lee Davidson, I Care If You Listen, January 18, 2021)

Arias on Identity, Isolation and Fear (Heidi Waleson, The Wall Street Journal, January 13, 2021)

Opera in Our New World (George Grella, The Brooklyn Rail, December 22, 2020)

"Freedom" Album review (The Wire Magazine issue 443, December 8, 2020)

Listen: Yvette Janine Jackson’s Destination Freedom (The Wire Magazine, November 27, 2020)

The Art Gallery in Your Mind’s Ear (Mark Weidenbaum, Disquiet, November 11, 2020)

ListN Up: Yvette Janine Jackson (I Care If You Listen, October 9, 2020)

Music professor composes pieces to immerse audiences in narrative (Manisha Aggarwal-Schifellite,The Harvard Gazette, October 7, 2019)

Yvette J. Jackson to Become Assistant Professor in Harvard’s Music Department (Andrea M. Bossi, The Harvard Crimson, December 3, 2018)

Naples Philharmonic Jazz Readings: Composer Spotlight (SoundAdvice, May 24, 2016)

Composers, mentors, Naples Philharmonic and audience help forge new works (Harriet Howard Heithaus, Naples Daily News, May 27, 2016)

Philharmonic to workshop new jazz pieces (Lindsey Nesmith, Naples Florida Weekly, May 19, 2016)

Jazz composers get first readings with Naples Philharmonic (Harriet Howard Heithaus, Naples Daily News, May 18, 2016)

RADIO & PODCASTS

Historia och elektronik on Elektroniskt i P2 - May 25, 2021

Interview with Helena Lopac for the Elektroniskt i P2 episode "The Invisible Music." - November 19, 2017

Invisible People (A Radio Opera) is discussed on Elektroniskt i P2 - Sunday, October 4, 2015.

Featured in "How sweet the sound -Afroamerikaner och konstmusik" on P1.

Interviewed on Musikmagasinet about Eartha Kitt for P2.

Interviewed on Musikmagasinet about Maya Angelou for P2.

PROJECTS AND EVENTS

International Contemporary Ensemble at Roulette presents world premiere of Yvette Janine Jackson’s new radio opera for large ensemble and electronics on Friday, January 19, 2024 at 8:00 p.m

Scoring The Cassandra Project, a film trilogy directed by Barclay DeVeau in production 2023.  The Cassandra Project will feature the stories of three female protagonists whose voices are discounted due to gender disparity, in each case leading to extremely high stakes situations.

World premiere of Hello, Tomorrow! for Orchestra and Tape October 20, 2022 at Carnegie Hall.

The American Composers Orchestra—one of the foremost presenters of new music—returns with a concert that explores our relationship to Earth in an age of climate anxiety. The program includes the New York premiere of Mark Adamo’s Last Year, a dystopian reflection on Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons. Viet Cuong’s highly charged Re(new)al is a concerto for percussion quartet inspired by the power of hydro, wind, and solar energies. Newly commissioned world premieres by inti figgis-vizueta and electroacoustic artist Yvette Janine Jackson round out the program. This thought-provoking concert features the ensemble along with conductor Mei-Ann Chen, innovative cellist Jeffrey Zeigler, the Grammy-winning Attacca Quartet, and the “exhilarating” Sandbox Percussion quartet (The New York Times).

Solo set (live electronics and fixed media) at Skaņu mežs festival for adventurous music 20th anniversary on September 23-24 at concert hall Hanzas Perons (16a Hanzas street) in Riga, Latvia.

Radio Opera Workshop is an ensemble established in 2020 in order to perform the radio operas of Yvette Janine Jackson. Jackson’s radio operas are narrative compositions told through electroacoustic soundscapes, sound effects, instrumental music, and text. The stories address historical events and contemporary issues in an abstract manner that invites the listener to participate in the interpretation of the narrative. The texts are derived from archival materials, including news media, historical documents, corporate websites, and internet trolls.

Left Behind is the first in a series of radio operas themed around the environmental and socioeconomic impact of space tourism on local communities near launch sites.

Audible as one ascends into the Wave Farm pine forest are two radio operas by Yvette Janine Jackson. The installation is titled Underground (Codes) and features a new composition created specifically for Wave Farm, which is a response, or companion, to her earlier work Destination Freedom, which is also installed on-site. Both works are amplified by Code Humpback steel projection cowls, which were donated to Wave Farm by Charles Lindsay. On permanent collection at Wave Farm, Acra, New York.

PROTOTYPE FESTIVAL 2021 - Online

Premiere of Fear Is Their Alibi for soprano, bassoon, and electronics featuring Malesha Jessie Taylor and Clifton Joey Guidry, III. Text by Jarita Davis. Animation by Zekkereya El-magharbel.

Launches January 8 at 8pm ET | Available to stream January 8-16. There will be an exclusive event following the January 8 premiere.

Shaping the Past - Goethe-Institut -Boston, MA

Listening to History: Revisiting Memory through Soundscape Compositions

In this conversation, composers Yvette Janine Jackson and Jacek Smolicki consider soundscapes and their potential for capturing events and characters from the past and connecting them with the present.

Black Speculative Musicalities -Cambridge, MA

The Fromm Players at Harvard Concerts and Symposium curated by Vijay Iyer

Friday, April 3.Yvette Janine Jackson: The Radio Opera Workshop w/Esperanza Spalding, double bass; Rajna Swaminathan, mrudangam; Davidndar Singh, bass clarinet, baritone sax; Taiga Ultan, flute; Tia Fuller, alto sax; Judith Hamann, cello. Meshell Ndegeocello w/ Chris Bruce, guitar; Jebin Bruni, keys; Abraham Rounds, drums.
Saturday, April 4: Val Jeanty Trio; Imani Uzuri: Conjure Woman; Roscoe Mitchell Quartet
Roscoe Mitchell, saxophones, flutes, percussion; Ambrose Akinmusire, trumpet; Junius Paul, bass; Vincent Davis, drums.

SYMPOSIUM (Time to come) -Thompson Room, Barker Center
Conversations with Saidiya Hartman, Shana Redmond, Greg Tate, Vijay Iyer, Yvette Janine Jackson, and others.

Friday April 3 and Saturday April 4, 2020
Doors at 8:30, shows at 9pm
Oberon, 2 Arrow Street, Cambridge
FREE TIX AVAILABLE BEGINNING MARCH 6 AT NOON ONLINE OR IN PERSON AT THE LOEB DRAMA CENTER BOX OFFICE Open 12-6 Tuesday through Sunday

Ensemble Evolution - Banff Centre -Alberta, CA

Through workshops, performance, side-by-side collaboration with faculty on newly commissioned works, and group conversation, EVO participants engage in an holistic approach to making music, building community, and imagining pathways forward for the future of the ensemble. In addition to the International Contemporary Ensemble, the EVO faculty is anchored by internationally renowned composers George Lewis, Liza Lim, Alvin Lucier, Yvette Janine Jackson and the improvisation faculty includes luminaries Matana Roberts, Peter Evans, Mazz Swift and Wilfrido Terrazas. Esteemed guest artists in Summer 2019 include Tyshawn Sorey, Wu Wei, Aiyun Huang, Eduardo Kohn and IONE. EVO also welcomes Rania El Mugammar as a conversation partner who will guide our discussions around social responsibility and racial and gender equity in the music field.

As a part of Ensemble Evolution’s ongoing commitment to the creation of new repertory for a new generation, 2019 Banff Centre-commissioned works will be premiered this summer by Lucier, Jackson, and Masaoka.

Valley Audio Hearth - Eastworks - Easthampton, MA

wave Farm Presents - SMFA at Tufts - Medford, MA

SMFA 1630AM Live Broadcast
Thursday, April 4
6-8pm
SMFA Library

Radio Opera with Yvette Janine Jackson + Gregory Whitehead
Friday, April 5
12-1:30pm
Distler Hall / Medford

Sonic Planetarium, Heidi Neilson
AM Receiver Workshop, Jeff Thompson
Friday, April 5
2:30-4pm
Remis Sculpture Court / Medford

elektronmusikstudion (EMS) - Stockholm

Guest composer residency at Stockholm EMS, in collaboration with Karen Werner. March 2019.

Tape Works - Fylkingen -Stockholm

An evening of fixed media at Fylkingen. 7 March 2019 at 19:30.

q21 - Museumsquartier -Vienna

Tonspur_passage in collaboration with Bojana Knežević, Katarina Petrović, and Karen Werner: A Chance Encounter (for 4 artists, 8 speakers and 16 questions). An exploration of sounds, meanings and experiences of trust through an experimental creative approach. The idea of this piece is based on a mutual trust between the artists who are becoming collaborators by accident. An 8-channel composition is created from 4 separate pieces made individually and in dialogue, yet without prior hearing of each others' parts. 
Created for the TONSPUR_pasaža at Maribor Town Hall, Slovenia as part of MFRU 2018 – International Festival of Computer Arts Maribor.

February 24 to April 27, 2019

Centering Black composers - Ann Arbor, MI

Centering Black Composers: Music to Unravel the Classical Canon

January 21, 2019 premiere of “Freedom Is a Constant Struggle” arranged for carillon.

12:00 PM, Burton Memorial Tower
1:30 PM, Lurie Tower
"Black composers’ non-existence in academic institutions tells black composers that we are not wanted, no matter how much success we gain," writes Anthony R. Green in his galvanizing article "What the Optics of New Music Say to Black Composers" (New Music USA). To unravel the exclusivity of the classical music canon, the work of Black composers, and especially Black women, must take center stage. Professor Tiffany Ng, University Carillonist, performs works by composers ranging from Yvette Janine Jackson and Jessie Montgomery to arrangements of Motown and soul.

Fridman Gallery - New York, NY

Sunday, September 23, 2018 - 8pm doors at Fridman Gallery, 287 Spring Street, NYC

Phill Niblock, Yvette Janine Jackson and Abigail Levine, Carver Audain

Cube Fest - Blacksburg, VA

New work created during the Spatial Music Workshop presented during “Research ReSounds” at Cube Fes, August 9-12, a spatial music festival with performances for the public and a VIP package of hands-on, behind-the-scenes, and creative opportunities for fellow revolutionists.  Cube Fest will bring together a group of 20 international audio technology experts, computer engineers, music technology experts, musicians, and composers who will present performances of original compositions created for the Cube and preexisting works, including music by the late David Bowie.

Virginia Tech’s Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology (ICAT) is on the front line leading a revolution in sound with a unique resource at their fingertips—the Cube in the Moss Arts Center. A four-story, high-tech venue and laboratory, the Cube is outfitted with 149 multichannel audio speakers, a robust motion capture system, and a two-story- tall, 360-degree immersive projection screen called the Cyclorama, making it the only facility of its kind in the world. Artists, musicians, scientists, and researchers from around the globe visit the Cube to be part of this revolution.

Soundworks Gathering #3 - Easthampton, MA

Set 1 (8pm) -Destination Freedom (for quadrophonic sound) -Yvette Janine Jackson
Set 2 (8:30pm) Infinities of Yonder/ness -Daniel Warner (live electronics) + Jason Robinson (saxophone)

Soundworks Gathering is a monthly concert series in western Massachusetts that features local, regional, national, and international music makers in an intimate, laboratory-like setting intended to foster community and experimentation. Currently hosted by Flywheel Arts in Easthampton, the series is organized and produced by an eclectic collective of musicians who hope to encourage interdisciplinarity across musical styles, methodologies, and other expressive forms (dance, visual art, etc.).

Carillon New Music Festival - Chicago, IL

Rockefeller Carillon New Music Festival

Friday May 25 | 5–8 pm
Saturday May 26 | 10 am–12:45 pm, 2 :30–5:15 pm

Premiere of a new work composed for Tiffany Ng co-commissioned by University of Michigan and University of Chicago as part of a two-day festival of new music for the carillon featuring twelve world premières, including music for carillon and electronics and carillon and other instruments. The Friday evening program includes a reception at 5:30 pm with the artists, composers, and creators of the festival, with a showcase recital at 6:30 pm. The Saturday program includes eight short recitals, interspersed with presentations in diverse formats about the music, the composers, and the world of new music for carillon. Free, with light refreshments throughout the event.

Peter Evans/Levy Lorenzo & Yvette Janine Jackson

April 07, 2018, 8pm at The Fridman Gallery, New York, NY

Peter Evans/Levy Lorenzo & Yvette Janine Jackson will join for an evening of performances, celebrating the gallery's current exhibition of Matana Roberts; jump at the sun. 

Saturday Night Special - WGXC 90.7 Wave Farm Radio

Feb 10, 2018: 8pm on WGXC 90.7-FM: Hands-on Radio 90.7-FM and wgxc.org

Standing Wave Radio wavefarm.org 1620-AM | Simulcast mid-6 a.m. and Saturdays on WGXC 90.7-FM.  Produced by Various.

This broadcast features multiple works by radio opera artist Yvette Janine Jackson. The first hour features a three-part program of recorded works. The second hour is a rebroadcast of Jackson's live performance of "Destination Freedom" on February 5, 2018 at the Fridman Gallery in New York for the New Ear Festival.

New Ear Festival 2018 - Fridman Gallery

U.S. premiere of Destination Freedom. Part of the New Ear Festival at the Fridman Gallery in New York, NY.  February 5, 2018 at 8pm.  Broadcast live on Wave Farm Radio.

Ljudbio IV - Uppsala, Sweden

Destination Freedom, Part 1 presented during narrative sound art festival.

Den osynliga musiken - Sveriges Radio

Interview with Helena Lopac for the Elektroniskt i P2 episode "The Invisible Music."  The program features tape music artists and composers, including an interview with Magnus Bunnskog director of Audiorama, a space for listening in Stockholm.

Expressing Identity: Exploring Electroacoustic Music as a Method

”How can class, race, gender and sexuality be expressed through sound technologies?” This question has motivated and transformed Yvette Janine Jackson’s creative practice and research. In this talk Yvette will explore how electroacoustic music can be used to express identity outlining the history and development of this practice based research and presenting excerpts of her fixed media pieces.  The lecture is free and held in English.

Please register via e-mail to: jenny.sunesson [at] uniarts.se

This lecture is a collaboration between Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts (Stockholms dramatiska högskola) and EMS as part of the independent course Feminist Perspectives in Sonic Arts, 30 ECT.

Tonband 2017 - Fixed Media Festival - Stockholm

Tonband 2017 - Fixed Media Festival, 7–9 September 2017 at Audiorama in Stockholm

Tonband is a new three-day festival dedicated to electroacoustic music. New works by, among others, Trevor Wishart and Yvette Janine Jackson and some real classics will be played.  Read more here.

Audiorama vill med festivalen Tonband skapa ett nytt forum för ”fixed media” eller ”tape” – den studiokomponerade elektroakustiska musik som har komponerats för att upplevas under konserter där publiken kollektivt lyssnar till musik uppspelad i högtalare. Vi vill ge denna musik plats i kultursamhället och se den fortleva in i framtiden.

New York City ELectroacoustic Music FEstival

Presentation of "Radio Drama as Electroacoustic Composition" on June 20 at 11am at New York University, Steinhardt building, 35 West Fourth Street, room 303.   NYCEMF 2017 will take place at the Abrons Arts Center on June 19-25, at National Sawdust on July 14-16, and on other dates at other venues in New York City.  The New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival is an annual, multi-day festival featuring works by emerging and established composers, performers, and sound artists from all over the world. The festival includes pieces for live electronics. fixed media, acoustic instruments with electronics, visual music, and multi-media pieces such as video and dance, as well as audio and video installations. Up to 16 channels of sound can be heard.

Organ for the Senses - Spreckels organ Pavillion

SAN DIEGO ART INSTITUTE AND PARKEOLOGY PRESENT: ORGAN FOR THE SENSES

8pm - Saturday, May 27, 2017

Premiere of "Dirge for Organ and Tape" at this year’s Organ For the Senses.  The concert welcomes seven composers from the U.S., Sweden, Australia, and Chile for an event that will challenge listeners as much as challenge the sonic and architectonic limits of the Spreckels’ organ itself.

Kulturnatten 2017 at Audiorama

Visit Skeppsholmen and Audiorama on #kulturnatt17 29th April and listen to Yvette Janine Jackson's Invisible People (A Radio Opera). Admission free!

Invisible People (A Radio Opera) was first composed in 2013 in response to homophobic reactions from high profiled African Americans in the media. “Invisible people” refers to the underrepresented members of LGBTQ communities whose voices were excluded from the debate. In 2017, where a divisive political climate threatens the basic rights of human beings and the systems put in place to protect them, this piece takes on a new meaning. The “libretto” is gathered from religious texts, liturgical rituals, historic and contemporary sermons and speeches, news clips, conversion therapy literature, and internet trolls.

Kulturnatt Stockholm är kvällen då Stockholms breda kulturliv öppnar upp sina dörrar för att bjuda in till en unik kväll där fest, mingel och framför allt en massa kultur står i centrum. Museer, teatrar, gallerier och en mängd andra kulturarrangörer håller kvällsöppet 18.00–24.00 för att ge en oförglömlig kväll i den lila drömmens tecken med hundratals olika programpunkter och fri entré.

BEAST FEaST 2017 - Figure | Landscape | Seascape | Sky

Thursday 27 – Saturday 29 April 2017
The University of Birmingham, UK

Presentation at BEAST FEaST: three days of music, meeting, and ideas, along with featured guest artists Paula Matthusen, Pierre Alexandre Tremblay, and Sarah Farmer, and resident ensemble the Pestova/Rees/Roche Trio.

SEAMUS 2017 National CONFERENCE

Saturday concert performance of Swan at the SEAMUS 2017 National Conference held April 20–22, 2017 at St. Cloud State University in Saint Cloud, Minnesota. Located on the banks of the Mississippi River, the conference will present a broad intersection of electro-acoustic music and art in small and large concert venues on campus, a downtown nightclub and in guerrilla concerts.

Springfest: Encuentros at Bread & Salt

5 Days a Soldier instillation for the Silo at Bread & Salt.  Encuentro is an event seeks to bring the UCSD music department into dialogue, collaboration and engagement with the broader San Diego community. This year the event partners with Borderland Noise in order to extend this process into a bi-national experimental arts festival, featuring artists from Tijuana, Mexicali, and Ensenada. With more than 30 artists involved, performances and installations will take place across the entire Bread & Salt site, including unusual hidden spaces, and a quadrophonic grain silo.

2 Radio Operas at Borealis Festival - Bergen, Norway

Østre, Østre Skøstredet 3, 5pm and 7pm

Works by:
Tolga Balci – Black Empire – Fragile Objects
Jacqueline George – Happening now
Craig Wells with Mathias Loose – Bleached words
Yvette Janine Jackson – Invisible people (A Radio Opera) and Swan

AMT FESTIVAL - Data Visualization and Sonification

Panel: Francisco Eme, Yvette Janine Jackson, Al Jones, Jeff Kaiser, Justin Manor

Culminating Performance, 5pm-8pm, February 4, 2017

The inaugural AMT Festival (art, music, technology) is a pilot initiative of the San Diego Art Institute (SDAI) in collaboration with the Fleet Science Center and Southwestern College to present a national festival of experimental, electronic, and data-driven ideas in a creative laboratory featuring cutting edge performances, music hacking, and demos that connect artists, students, technologists, researchers, thought leaders, and businesses in a vibrant environment.  From February 2-4, 2017, AMT will feature panel discussions, lectures, demos, DIY educational workshops, and artist performances that reflect themes at the forefront of electronic arts/music, data visualization/sonification, and the confluence of arts, technology, and music.

New Perspectives in American Music - Amherst

The Department of Music launches “New Perspectives in American Music,” a spring semester 2017 speaker series, with "Radio Drama as a Model for Electroacoustic Composition,” a talk by Yvette Janine Jackson (Ph.D. Candidate, Music/Integrated Studies, University of California, San Diego) at 4:30 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 30, at the Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Frost Library, Amherst College.

Party line - San Diego Art Institute

Party Line is a sound installation for the San Diego Art Institute open October 1 through November 6, 2016. “The Dead Are Not Quiet: A Group Exhibition of Macabre Art” features work by artists living and working in the Southern California/Baja Norte region. The judge for the work was Scott Mitchell Putesky, an artist and musician best known for his work as the guitarist and co-founder of the musical group Marilyn Manson.  Read more…

Listening in the Dark - Nutida Musik

"Radio Opera: Listening in the Dark" translated into Swedish by Magnus Bunnskog for Nutida Musik Nr. 258/2016.

SDAI GearHEADs @ HoRTON Plaza Project SPACE

Presentation and performance will focus on radio opera practice, including discussion of studio production and live performance examples.  Free admission.

• Thursday, July 7, 2016

• 7:00pm-9:00pm

Westfield Horton Plaza 324 Horton Plaza San Diego, CA

Duets in the Key of Dada - SF Int'l Arts Festival

Composer, multi-instrumentalist, sound artist and instrument inventor David Molina brings you an evening of improvised duets in the spirit of DADA: featuring composer, electronic musician, and trumpet player Yvette Janine Jackson; avant-spiritual jazz legend and multi-faceted performer Idris Ackamoor; and Molina on a multitude of traditional, invented instruments and electronics.

ATLANTIC CROSSING - Naples Philharmonic

American Composers Orchestra (ACO) in cooperation with EarShot, the National Orchestra Composition Discovery Network, will present the third Jazz Composers Orchestra Institute (JCOI) Readings in 2016.  Atlantic Crossing will be read by Naples Philharmonic on Wednesday, May 25, 2016 at 2pm and Thursday, May 26 at 7pm at Artis-Naples Hayes Hall, 5833 Pelican Bay Boulevard, Naples, Florida. The event is free and open to the public.  For more details, visit ACO.

"Naples Philharmonic Jazz Readings: Composer Spotlight" -Interview with SoundAdvice

"Composers, mentors, Naples Philharmonic and audience help forge new works" -Naples Daily News

"Philharmonic to workshop new jazz pieces" - Naples Florida Weekly

"Jazz composers get first readings with Naples Philharmonic" -Naples Daily News

This is Radio opera - audiorama - stockholm

A 70 minute program of soundscape compositions, including new works produced at EMS Elektronmusikstudion, presented at Audiorama, Stockholm.  Atkins-D73: Mach y; Invisible People (A Radio Opera): Deliverance; Djuren; Tyvärr, and Swan.

EMS Elektronmusikstudion - STockholm

Guest Composer residency at Stockholm's Elektronmusikstudion August 17 - September 5, 2015.

Since 1964, EMS Elektronmusikstudion is the centre for Swedish electroacoustic music and sound-art. EMS is run as an independent part of Musikverket (Swedish Performing Arts Agency).

Besides making professional studios available for the production of electroacoustic music and sound-art, EMS’ aim is to support artistic development of electroacoustic music and its integration within other artistic areas. EMS represents electroacoustic music from Sweden in various international contexts and sees as one of its main tasks to act as an informer, both nationally and internationally.

SVERIGES RADIO

Invisible People (A Radio Opera) is discussed on Elektroniskt i P2 - Sunday, October 4, 2015.

Featured in "How sweet the sound -Afroamerikaner och konstmusik" on P1.

Interviewed on Musikmagasinet about Eartha Kitt for P2.

Interviewed on Musikmagasinet about Maya Angelou for P2.

Soundscape (as) Composition: An Ecological Approach to Listening

Presentation for the Irish Sound Science and Technology Association's Audio Fabric: Socio-sonic Textures in the Real World Convocation on August 28, 2014 in Maynooth, Ireland.  The 2014 convocation examined the social impact of sound in the real world: natural soundscapes, music, technological sounds, mediated sounds, spaces, places and sites.

SOLDIER BY WA/SO

Soldier is a 5-day immersive panoramic installation created by Wa/So (Yvette Janine Jackson + Ava Porter) specifically for the Recombinant Media Lab housed at the Qualcomm Institute's Calit2 in La Jolla. Surrounded by 8 screens and 16 channels of audio, viewers experience the rise and fall of a fictitious soldier, each day of the installation representing a different phase in his/her life (recruitment, breakdown, buildup, battle, and desertion).  http://www.avaporter.com/projects/soldier

A Thin Line (A New Radio Opera)

Invisible People (A Radio Opera)

Ebony Divine

Ebony Divine was formed in 2009 and creates music for stage and screen. 

Below: PRETTY the Series, Season 3, Episode 2 closing theme Gumdrop the Unicorn.  Music and lyrics by Bret Silverman. Arranged and performed by Ebony Divine.