Yvette Janine Jackson | The Coding No. 2 (Synthetic Truths)

September 1 - Oct 3, 2021

VP is proud to co-present The Coding No. 2 (Synthetic Truths) with send + receive Festival of Sound.

In this gallery-based audio-visual installation, artist and composer Yvette Janine Jackson continues her series The Coding, which debuted in April 2021 as a Fromm Concert for Harvard University. The Coding No. 2 (Synthetic Truths) extends Jackson’s investigation into language and perception, discourse and history, interpreting material from the composer’s Radio Opera Workshop. The Radio Opera Workshop is Jackson (synthesizer, composition, sound design, and video), Tia Fuller (alto saxophone), Judith Hamann (violoncello), Davindar Singh (bass clarinet), Esperanza Spalding (double bass), Rajna Swaminathan (mrudangam), and Taiga Ultan (flute and voice).

The Coding series is made possible by a Live Arts Boston grant from the Boston Foundation.

Yvette Janine Jackson is a composer and installation artist who brings attention to historical events and social issues through her radio operas. She studied at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center during its transition into the Computer Music Center and blends these experiences with her work as a theatrical sound designer into a narrative style of composition. Yvette’s work has been featured at Fylkingen, MuseumsQuartier Tonspur Passage, San Francisco International Arts Festival, Borealis Festival, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, and in residence at Stockholm Elektronmusikstudion. Yvette is an assistant professor in Creative Practice and Critical Inquiry in the Department of Music and teaches for the Theater, Dance & Media program at Harvard University.

This program is supported by GroundSwell.