BASSPLAYER | PROFESSOR | APPLE CERTIFIED TRAINER | DIGITAL EDITOR
BIO
BFA, The Cooper Union, painting, NYC
Bassplayer, 'ELSE', 2010-Present
Professor, NYU, Editing Image & Sound, 2005-Present
Apple Certified Trainer, The Training Farm, Future Media Concepts, 2006-Present
Editor/Colorist/Sound Engineer/Finisher, Big Commotion Pictures, LLC, 2001-Present
Assistant Curator, Diapason Gallery for Sound, 2008-2010
ELSE
NISI JACOBS is the bassplayer for 'ELSE', an alternative electronic pop/rock band formed in 2010 with partner Michael J. Schumacher. Schumacher and Jacobs have also collaborated as 'DRAW', creating multichannel video/sound installations and performances. http://www.elsesounds.com
NISI'S voice as a bass player is informed by listening and learning from the greats ~ James Jamerson, Willie Weeks, David Hood, Jerry Jemmott, Pino Palladino, Me'shell Ndegéocello, drummers: Steve Jordan, Gene Krupa, Ed Thigpen, among others ~ and over a decade studying Senegalese dance & drum. she studies bass with danny morris, http://momethod.com and matt boas, http://nycguitarchool.com/matt.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Jeu De Paume Museum Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival, Hong Kong Film Festival, Circulo de Bellas Artes of Madrid, Maya Stendhal Gallery, Ear to the Earth festival, River-to-River Film Festival, etc.
PROGRAMMER/CURATOR
5.1 Surround Sound / Video Programmer, SYNCH Electronic Festival, Athens, Greece; Phatory Gallery; HOWL Film Festival, nyc
assistant curator, diapason gallery for sound, nyc
DIGITAL EDITING CREDITS
Top Film of 2004, J. Hoberman, Village Voice, Number #3 Avant-Garde Film of the Decade, Poll and Film Comment, 2004 Winner Douglas Edwards Experimental / Independent Film / Video Award, Los Angeles Film Critics Association, Best of 2010, Holden & Dargis, NYTimes
APPLE CERTIFIED TRAINER
2006-Present
Certified Trainer, Final Cut Pro, Motion, Final Cut Studio. Began working with Final Cut Pro in version 1.1 in 2000. Briefly assisted Apple programmer in early stages of interface design, 2001 @ Oxygen Network, nyc
SELECTED PERFORMANCES
2010: Modular Collaboration Performance, Diapason Gallery
2010: DRAW w/ 'thenumber46' (Philip White / Suzanne Thorpe), Optosonic Tea, Diapason Gallery
2010:DRAW w/ Sarah Bernstein / Stuart Popejoy, Glitch Generation Festival, BAC
2010: DRAW, VCW Performance, Diapason Gallery
2009: DRAW, Happy New Ears Festival, Belgium
2009: DRAW, Q-02 Festival
2009: DRAW, Diapason Gallery, NYC
2009: Music piece, ‘And She Knows’ included on soundtrack of ‘Anaglyph Tom’ by Ken Jacobs
2009: DRAW videos, Weave, distributed by En’tract (release date 2010)
2009: DRAW, Padtech, Diapason Gallery, NYC
2008: DRAW, Tom Chiu/Andre Goncalves, Monkeytown, NYC
2008: DRAW, Ear to the Earth Festival, Judson Church, NYC
2008: DRAW, Bruce Andrews/Alex Waterman, Monkeytown, NYC
2008: DRAW, Aki Onda, Alan Licht, Keir Neuringer & dj sniff, ECA, NYC
2008: The Living Room
2008: Bowery Ballroom
2008: PIANOS
2008: Mercury Lounge
2008: DRAW, Red Room, Baltimore
2008: DRAW, The Stone, NYC
2008: Williamsburg Hall of Music
2008: River-to-River Film Festival
2007: National Cinématheque of Spain
2007: The Alejandro Otero Museum
2007: Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
2007: Circulo de Bellas Artes of Madrid
2007: Jeu De Paume Museum, Paris
2005: Maya Stendhal Gallery, REPETITIONS
2005: Maya Stendhal Gallery, VITAL SIGNS, Commission
2005: Maya Stendhal Gallery, FRAGMENTS IN PARADISE
2005: Maya Stendhal Gallery, 5.1 Surround Sound Composition for THE GUESTS
2005: Artist Visit: New School Film Department
2005: The Phatory Gallery
2005: HOWL Film Festival
2005: SYNCH FESTIVAL, Athens, Greece
2005: SONAR festival at the Caracas Contemporary Art Museum
2005: CalArts Film/Video Cinematheque
2004: Artist Visit: Massachusetts College of Art
2004: Artist Visit: New School Film
2004: Manchester Metropolitan University of England
2004: Rencontres Festival, Paris
2003: San Francisco Cinemathequediapa
2003: Rencontres Festival, Paris
2003: Tribeca Film Festival
2003: Hong Kong Film Festival
2002: EARSHOT: LISTEN TO A FILM WITHOUT PICTURES/ KQED
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2002: Millennium Film Workshop
2002: Anthology Film Archives
