About

Jakob Thorkild Overgaard works with music across improvisation, electronics, interdisciplinary methods, contemporary concerns, teaching and essayism.

“My work is informed by the sources that surrounds us — historically, within the realm of artistic practice, politically, socially, technologically, and through the conditions of our own existence.

The task of translating observations, considerations, hypotheses into sounding material of individual experience is at the core of my work.

My practice moves between improvisation, electronics, composition, interdisciplinary methods, writing, teaching and visual research.”

Photo: Mads Fisker

Jakob Thorkild Overgaard has released numerous albums in the field of experimental music, with a particular interest in the interplay between sound, perception, improvisation and contemporary experience.

Working as a teacher and lecturer, involving dialogical approaches to teaching and inspiring a deeper understanding of music, listening, the act of teaching and contemporary concerns in general.

Author of books, reviews and critical reflections on music. His writing explores music in detail as well as its relationship to broader cultural and societal concerns.