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JACK

HERSCOWITZ

COMPOSER 

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biography

Jack Herscowitz is a Los Angeles based composer, improviser, and sound artist who engages deep inter-personal collaborations, trans-disciplinary thinking, and alternate definitions of "score" to recognize music as a process which has always extended beyond the singular dimension of sound. His work runs the wide gamut of interactive sound installations, noisy live processed improvisations, ethereal drone soundscapes, theatrical chamber music, and communal spaces for sound making.

His music has been performed throughout North America and Europe by artists including the Arditti Quartet, Del Sol String Quartet, Ensemble Dal Niente, Syntagma Piano DuoAtlantic Reed ConsortHypercube, and the soloists of Meitar Ensemble and The Locrian Chamber Players. His work has been presented by IRCAM’s ManiFeste Festival, Barcelona Modern Festival, soundpedro, The Dog Star OrchestraJune in Buffalo, Neofonía Festival de Música Nueva de Ensenada, CEME Festival, The Resonance CollectiveArts Letters and Numbers, and the Provincetown Film Festival, with performances at the Centquatre-Paris (France), CENART (Mexico)Hellerau European Centre for the Arts (Germany), Phonos UPF (Catalonia), the Moscow Conservatory (Russia), Chiesa di Santa Maria di Canepanova Pavia (Italy), Riverside Church (NYC), 2220 Arts and Archives (Los Angeles), Coaxial Arts Foundation (LA), First Congregational Church (LA), Automata Theater (LA), Beyond Baroque (LA), the Bowes Center (San Francisco)the Spencer Museum of Art (Lawrence, Kansas), and the Montpelier Arts Center (Laurel, Maryland).

Jack performs improvised live electronics on custom coded digital instruments with Abigail Whitman (voice) as Mystic Elevator and with soloists including Dieb 13Ana Luisa Diaz de Cossio, Matt LeVeque,

M A HarmsJeonghyeon Joo, and Mason Moy. His solo performance practice draws from noise, glitch, vaporwave, and DIY electronics to re-claim the sounds of capitalism's sonic warfare. He has collaborated on multidisciplinary works with poet/novelist Julia Alvarez, filmmaker/artist Clemente Ciarrocca, installation artist Ásgerður Arnardóttir, choreographer Ashlee Dance, and choreographer-  filmmaker Sam KannAlongside cellist James Alexander, he cofounded the Lawrence, KS based interdisciplinary arts group, Amorphous Collective

Jack received his M.F.A. in Composition and Experimental Sound Practices at CalArts and his B.A. in Music and Environmental Studies from Middlebury College. His teachers include Michael Pisaro-Liu, Steve Lehman, Carolyn Chen, Tim Feeney, Micaela Tobin, and Matthew Evan Taylor.

Trio- IRCAM Manifeste (2022)

Live electronics improvisation with Josefa Ibarra and Dieb 13

Super Mario 69 (2021)

Premiered by the Del Sol String Quartet

The Clown (2020)

Premiered as part of the 2021 CEME Festival by Anat Nazarathy

Intimate Messages (2022)

Installation for Interactive Messaging System, Contact Mic, Sine Tones 

Call Me When You Get Home (2022)

A Seafoam Green Room (2022)

Collaboration with Rob Middleton
Premiered at the Bowes Center at SFCM, November 2022

Premiered as part of the 2022 Barcelona Modern Festival by
Syntagma Piano Duo

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