Born 1995 in Madison, Wisconsin, Jakob Heinemann is a multidisciplinary artist, working in the areas of sound art, free improvisation, avant garde composition, photography and acoustic ecology. Much of my work centers on sonic communion as a means of cultural exchange and solidarity, using sound to understand the community and environments we inhabit as well as our relationships therein. A double bass player, I am deeply committed to improvisation, with roots in the free jazz community of Chicago, and I play in outsider Americana trio Alta Vista and the avant-jazz Devin Drobka Trio. My compositions tend to reflect this spirit of collaboration. They frequently utilize open scoring to create a participatory framework inclusive of both performer and composer, as well as field recordings and spectral analysis to document a sense of place in a radically changing environment. I currently reside in Los Angeles, where I am pursuing an MFA in Composition and Experimental Sound Practices at California Institute of the Arts.