Biography

Jess Rowland (born 1971) is a sound artist, musician, and composer. Much of her work explores the relationship between technologies, popular culture, and other absurdities, investigating “the weirdness of reality and how we all deal with it.” She currently teaches sound art at the School of Visual Arts in New York, and presents her work internationally. She received her MFA from the University of California, Berkeley, and worked at the Center for New Music and Audio Technology, developing techniques for embedded sound and flexible speaker arrays. Her work continually aims to reconcile the world of art and the world of science. She is affiliated with David Poeppel’s lab at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, researching music perception, and she has published in the fields of auditory neurosciences and music technologies. Recent installation and performance venues include the New York Electronic Arts Festival, Berkeley Art Museum, Luggage Store Gallery, Harvestworks, Spectrum NYC, and the Banff Center.