#  Yvette Janine Jackson 

Associate Professor of Music

Gardner Cowles Professor of the Humanities 

Member of the Standing Committee on Theatre, Dance, and Media

 

 

 



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**Yvette Janine Jackson** is a composer of electroacoustic, chamber, and orchestral music whose work draws from theatrical sound design to create an aesthetic she calls “radio opera.” Her compositions explore narrative through spatial audio, distributed agency, and historical reflection while crafting immersive listening experiences described by *The Guardian* as “immersive non-visual films.”

Jackson’s work has been presented internationally at venues and festivals including Carnegie Hall, the Venice Music Biennale, the Borealis Festival, and ZKM | Center for Art and Media. She has received commissions from institutions including the American Composers Orchestra, International Contemporary Ensemble, and Cashmere Radio for Deutschlandfunk Kultur. Her scoring credits include music for Barclay DeVeau’s *The Cassandra Project* and PBS’s *Poetry in America*, and she has permanent sound installations at Wave Farm and the International African American Museum. Jackson is a recipient of the Herb Alpert Award in the Arts (2025) and the Giga-Hertz Production Award (2021), granted by ZKM and SWR Experimentalstudio to support innovation in electronic music. Her writing on narrative soundscape composition appears in *Composing While Black* and *Between the Tracks* (MIT Press) where her contributions engage with listening and identity in contemporary electroacoustic practices.

She holds a PhD in Music–Integrative Studies from the University of California, San Diego, and a BA from Columbia University, where her interest in electroacoustic composition was sparked at the historic Computer Music Center. Before joining the Harvard faculty, Jackson taught at Amherst College.

[www.yvettejackson.com](http://www.yvettejackson.com)

[www.radiooperaworkshop.com](http://www.radiooperaworkshop.com)



 

 

 





 

 

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