Jacques Emery is an Australian double bassist, percussionist, improviser, and composer working across jazz, classical, and experimental music. His work has been described as “casting the audience adrift in an undulating, shimmering world of sound” (Limelight Magazine, 4.5 stars).
His current solo double bass work focuses on trancelike states through 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.
Jacques is active in Australia’s independent music scene, performing 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.
