Pieces

 

singles + EP

to hear Jack’s LP, two EP’s and two singles click here

Gather, Together

Released as a studio album on, July 20, 2018, Gather was first an immersive concert featuring video art, sets, and audience interaction. To see/read more about the project, hear the full album, and view and the music videos, click here. Below are two versions of ‘New Mantra:’ the live performance from April 2018 performed by Justin Park, and the studio rendition of the music with a video accompaniment by Rocky Bostick and Leonard Galmon.

Other ize

For two male vocalist, violin, cello, and piano, Other Ize reflects on an encounter between strangers. Performed on May 2nd, 2017, at Yale University by Miles Walter, Kenyon Duncan, Serena Shapard, Benjamin Fleischacker, and Alois Cerbu. 
 

In response to Art

Yosemite: The Incomparable Valley

Jack was asked to construct a musical response to the Yale University Art Gallery's new exhibition on the Yosemite Valley. The program he put together was a mix of through composed pieces and structured improvisations performed by two guitars, trumpet, cello, and bass, and various subsets of that group.

This first pair of pieces, the first a quartet and the second a duet, opened the concert: 

 

Harlem Renaissance 

There Are No Words was composed for a concert in the Beinecke Library exhibition on the Harlem Renaissance. The duet for marimbas is a response to photographs of the "Silent Parade" of 1917, which was one of the first major protests to jim crow. A crowd of thousands of African-Americans gathered on 59th St. and marched in silence down 5th Avenue in a powerful gesture of solidarity.

 

I've ONly Been Young

I've Only Been Young is Jack's first multi-movement chamber work. Written and recorded over an eight month span, the duet for nylon string guitars presents Jack's voice as both an instrumentalist and a composer. The work is in six sections: three full fledged movements that each explore different textural worlds alternate with three shorter segments (a prelude, and two interludes).

I've Only Been Young - 2016, for two guitars [25']

Prelude - Our Song [2'] 

I - Breathing Time Machine [4']

Interlude I [2']

II - I Drifted. [8']

Interlude II [1']

III - Thinking Too Much or Not Thinking At All [8.5']

Portrait w: Nylon String.jpeg