COMPOSITION & SOUND INSTALLATION

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

Underground (Codes) installation now at Wave Farm

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.

Freedom released January 29, 2021. The album features radio operas Destination Freedom (Side A) and Invisible People (A Radio Opera) (Side B). Available on collector’s edition vinyl with sleeve notes by acclaimed cultural critic Gregory Tate and cover design by contemporary artist Nate Lewis.

“Destination Freedom” represents the future of a creolized sonic art in which new subjects for opera and musical theater offer new possibilities for a decolonized Afrodiasporic Gesamtkunstwerk without borders or limits. For this technically pristine and emotionally affecting work, the jury of the Giga-Hertz Prize 2021 awards Yvette Janine Jackson a Production Award.” Jury Statement, George Lewis