splinterings for double bass, jakob heinemann
description Born 1995 in Madison, Wisconsin, Jakob Heinemann is a multidisciplinary artist, working in the areas of sound art, free improvisation, avant garde composition, photography and acoustic ecology. Much of his 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, Jakob is deeply committed to improvisation, with roots in the free jazz community of Chicago, and he plays in outsider Americana group Alta Vista and the avant-jazz Devin Drobka Trio. His 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. Jakob has 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. Along with Peter Maunu and Carol Genetti, he curated Splice Series in Chicago from 2021-2022. Jakob currently resides in Los Angeles, where he is pursuing an MFA in Composition and Experimental Sound Practices at California Institute of the Arts. He has released music on Clean Feed Records, Ruination Recording Co, Party Perfect, Aerophonic Records, as well as his own imprint, Kashe Editions.