Jachin Pousson

(1983 )

Jachin Pousson (1983) is an American musician and composer. His interests include free improvisation, audiovisual art and neuroscience. In his music, Pousson focuses on natural and physical phenomena while expressing the poetry of being human. He has created music for installations, films and various instrumentations and has composed extensively for the saxophone.

Pousson began his musical career as a drummer playing hard rock music in Singapore. After a visit to Copenhagen, he turned to classical music and studied composition under Hans Abrahamsen. Having been impressed by the work of contemporary Baltic composers, Pousson enrolled in studies at the Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music (JVLMA) in 2013 and has since been a regular participant in various projects involving Latvian contemporary academic and electronic music. He currently works in the JVLMA Research Centre and, for his PhD dissertation, studies brain activity during the creation and playing of music.