about the artist.
Honolulu, 2016
Born and raised in the wild state of Idaho, composer-performer Gretchen Jude has since been heard across the globe. Jude's music explores the liminal spaces between nature & artifice, tradition & experimentation, as she wanders the borderlands of contemporary experience. Improvisational interaction with the immediate environment forms the core of Jude's sonic practice.
Jude's music springs from wide, eclectic listening experience and deep study: music improvisation with Fred Frith, Roscoe Mitchell, Pauline Olveros & Zeena Parkins; voice with Giselle Wyers, Molly Holm, Jonathan Nadel & Etsuko Takezawa; Japanese musics (nagauta & hauta shamisen, jiuta koto) with Makoto Nishimura, Curtis Patterson & Shibahime; and audio techniques and technologies with Ted Apel, John Bischoff, James Fei, Jeff Lubow & Nicolas Collins. Her years of living and practicing in Japan have left an indelible mark.
Jude holds an M.F.A. in Electronic Music & Recording Media from Mills College (2011) and a Ph.D. in Performance Studies from University of California, Davis (2018), along with certification from the Sawai Koto Institute (Tokyo) and the Deep Listening Institute (New York).
Through her creative practice, Jude aims to synthesize and harmonize personal, embodied experience with the rapid changes in culture and machinery that both empower and impinge upon us.
Jude's music springs from wide, eclectic listening experience and deep study: music improvisation with Fred Frith, Roscoe Mitchell, Pauline Olveros & Zeena Parkins; voice with Giselle Wyers, Molly Holm, Jonathan Nadel & Etsuko Takezawa; Japanese musics (nagauta & hauta shamisen, jiuta koto) with Makoto Nishimura, Curtis Patterson & Shibahime; and audio techniques and technologies with Ted Apel, John Bischoff, James Fei, Jeff Lubow & Nicolas Collins. Her years of living and practicing in Japan have left an indelible mark.
Jude holds an M.F.A. in Electronic Music & Recording Media from Mills College (2011) and a Ph.D. in Performance Studies from University of California, Davis (2018), along with certification from the Sawai Koto Institute (Tokyo) and the Deep Listening Institute (New York).
Through her creative practice, Jude aims to synthesize and harmonize personal, embodied experience with the rapid changes in culture and machinery that both empower and impinge upon us.