Jason Freeman breaks down conventional barriers between composers, performers, and listeners, using cutting-edge technology and unconventional notation to turn audiences and musicians into compositional collaborators.
Freeman’s works have been featured in The New York Times, on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered, and online at USA Today, Wired, and Billboard, which called Network Auralization for Gnutella (N.A.G.) “an example of the Web’s mind-expanding possibilities.” They have been exhibited and performed at the NTT InterCommunication Center (Tokyo), the Viper Festival (Basel), Donnaueschinger Musiktage (Germany), the Boston CyberArts Festival, the Transmediale Festival (Berlin), 01SJ (San Jose), Filmwinter (Stuttgart), and the Lincoln Center Festival (New York). His instrumental compositions have been performed by groups ranging from the American Composers Orchestra, Le Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, the Nieuw Ensemble, and Speculum Musicae to the Rova Saxophone Quartet, the So Percussion Group, and an elementary school band, chorus, and orchestra in Richmond, Virginia. He has received awards and grants from ASCAP, the American Music Center, Meet the Composer, the Yvar Mikhashoff Foundation, and Akademie Schloss Solitude. Freeman has also published articles about his work in Computer Music Journal, Leonardo, Organised Sound, and the Journal of New Music Research.
Freeman graduated summa cum laude from Yale University, which also awarded him the Louis Sudler prize, the highest honor to a graduating senior in the arts. He received an M.A. and D.M.A. in composition from Columbia University, studying with Fred Lerdahl, Sebastian Currier, and Joseph Dubiel. He is currently an assistant professor of music in the College of Architecture at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, where he also serves as executive director of Sonic Generator, the university's ensemble-in-residence.