Jacques Emery is an Australian double bassist, percussionist, improviser, and composer working across jazz, classical, and experimental music. His music has been described as “casting the audience adrift in an undulating, shimmering world of sound” (Limelight Magazine, 4.5 stars).
As an active member of Australia’s independent music scene, Jacques performs and records regularly with artists like Chloe Kim, Elysian Fields, Gary Daley (Round the Sun), Helen Svoboda, Hinano Fujisaki, Jeremy Rose (Disruption!), Novak Manojlovic (HEKKA, Places People, NoMansLand), Sam Gill (Coursed Waters, Scattered), and Zela Margossian Quintet.
He has also performed with established ensembles like the Australian Art Orchestra, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble Offspring, Ensemble Apex, and Omega Ensemble.
His current solo double bass music focuses on trancelike states, interference beats, rapid bowing patterns, and scordatura.
His other solo project GIANT SHIMMER treats acoustic and electric guitars as percussion instruments and integrates them into a hybrid drum kit with junk metal, singing bowls and tuning forks.
