The Tapeworm is releasing a performance by Jason Adams, Zachary Paul, Derek Gaines, and Patrick Shiroishi inside the sound & art installation SKY-CHU /∫u/ by Jasmin Blasco and David Okum.

The improvised performance reflects on the…

Danketsu 9, a nonet comprised of Jason Adams, Patrick Shiroishi, Ken Moore, Ang Wilson, Pauline Lay, Kelly Coats, Mallory Soto, Noah Guevara, and Dylan Fujioka, will perform at Jacknife's One Year Anniversary this Saturday, June 9th. The show will…

Jason Adams will join Patrick Shiroishi, Zachary Paul, and Derek Gaines at the Wilding Cran Gallery in Los Angeles, CA for a special performance in SKY-CHU this Sunday, April 15th. The quartet will perform inside and along with the…

Jerkagram's latest release, All Eyes On Me, is available now. Jason Adams contributed cello on "Skull Trumpet", "Flavor Country", and "Coup de Grâce". Stream it now on the above player.

Watch Jason Adams perform a second piece selected from his upcoming solo EP. Many thanks to Otto's Space Grotto for capturing.

The theatrical trailer for Red Paint is out now. Directed by Andrew Rodriquez, with original music composed by Jason Adams and Chollas, the short film focuses on Freya, who wakes up alone in the desert. Confused and separated…

Jerkagram has announced the release of their latest full-length album, All Eyes On Me, which features Jason Adams playing cello on several tracks. The first single, "Classically Handsome", is now available to stream (along with a truly awesome…

Watch Jason Adams perform a soon-to-be-released piece from his upcoming solo EP above. Thanks to Otto's Space Grotto for capturing.

Jason Adams recently sat down with Otto's Space Grotto to talk about his new experimental cello project, his work with techno duo Chollas, and his concert series Late Breakfast. 

Miya Folick's newest EP, Give It To Me, is out today via Terrible Records. Jason Adams contributed cello on "Give It To Me", "Aging", and "Let's Pretend"…

Lost & Found: The Road To Our Fathers has been selected as part of the official schedule for Festival Internacional de Dine de Morelia 2017. The festival will run from October 20-29, with Lost & Found playing October 23rd. 

I’m happy to share this interview with Jason Adams, an artist who is involved in a lot of great stuff in Los Angeles and shows no signs of slowing down. Currently, he keeps himself busy as a sound engineer, composer, one-half of uneasy techno duo, Chollas, and finally, the brains behind beloved monthly DTLA experimental music series, Late Breakfast. It would seem incredibly daunting were it not for Jason’s clearheaded approach to all of it. 

When you have your hands in as many projects as Jason does, you really have to be intrepid and curious - intrepid with regard to making mistakes, and curious in order to look at how those mistakes might shift or create relationships between your efforts. As Jason notes, it can be hard to draw a linear trajectory through different creative experiences, but each of them is crucial to where you end up. 

I asked Jason the same questions I ask everyone - I need to know what people are afraid of and how they deal with their hangovers! - but also touched on his experiences within both electronic and classical music realms. I’m grateful to be able to share my discussion with this creative powerhouse with you. Enjoy it, and visit the embedded links - the cello sketches are especially gorgeous. 

KP: What can you share about your creative trajectory? How did you get to your current creative life and who/what are your biggest influences? 

JA: I work as a sound engineer and composer, so I'm lucky that my job informs and is part of my creative life. Over the years I've worked in recording studios, television & film, radio, live venues, and a label & artist management company. Tracing a trajectory between all of those is a little daunting, but whether they felt like it at the time or not, each of those gigs and jobs was crucial to getting to where I am now. 

Some positions helped me hone the skills that I use for my career and my creative pursuits, others taught me how to do ancillary work such as social media or promotion. Most importantly, every single one has connected me to incredible and talented people who I look to as influences (and close friends). But my biggest influence right now is minimalism - the more I pare things down, the better the end result. (...maybe I should try that with interviews, too?) 

KP: Can you talk about time you were afraid to fail (with regard to creative efforts) and/or a time that you did? How did you bounce back? 

JA: On one of my early gigs as a composer for a short film, the director gave me some artists as reference points that I considered to be...uninspired. So I ignored her guidelines and set off to do something completely different. I obsessed over it, worked all night for a few days in a row until I came up with something I thought was unique and great, and finished the whole score in that vein without checking in. And the director hated it. I had to redo every single cue in a third of the time I would have had otherwise. The upshot is I learned four huge lessons from a single project: don't get attached to your first ideas, give multiple options at once, check in frequently and early to see if you're going in the direction they want, and pay attention to what they're asking for. I applied these to my next score and finished it with a lot less stress, a lot more sleep, and a much happier director.