Alex Jacobsen is a composer and artist often performing with feedback, personal recordings, guitars, and synthesizers. His body of work includes performative essays, soundwalks, digital media, and multisensory installations, exploring the spatial-temporal relationship between memory, the body, and acoustic phenomena.
Alex has performed and exhibited work throughout the United States, Mexico, and Europe, including ESS's Quarantine Concert Series (Chicago), The Bemis Center for Contemporary Art (Omaha), Ex Nihilo Festival (Guanajuato), The Radiophrenia Art Festival (Glasgow), and Konvent Puntzero (Berga). His discography has recently been published on EAC Records and Tymbal Tapes. In recent years, Alex has contributed music to several projects, including Movement5 for tbd dance collective, and the films These Bodies and Violent Textures of Nature and Flesh, both directed by Matthew Strasburger.
Outside his creative work, Alex has assisted in coordinating events for the music-education nonprofit Omaha Under the Radar, and teaches guitar and sound production privately.