ABOUT
Filming in Kotor, Montenegro. Photo by Carina Esguerra.
Playing Bonang Panerus with Indonesian gamelan group Gamelan Padhang Moncar. Photo by Richard Robertshawe.
Music Studio in Wellington, New Zealand.
Filming in Kotor, Montenegro. Photo by Carina Esguerra.
Jack Hooker is an electronic musician, acoustic guitarist and composer from Aotearoa New Zealand.
His electronic music is characterised by epic and emotive wall-of-sound synths, textural soundscapes and cinematic post-rock dynamics. Jack features this sound in The Shocking and Stunning and solo and collaborative projects. His instrumental guitar output features intricate fingerpicking, tapping techniques and open tunings in an expansive style that draws from diverse worldwide influences and collaborations.
Jack creates ambient soundscapes with John Psathas as Ambient Ousìa. He has previously collaborated with John on projects It's Already Tomorrow, Shiva Brahma, Between Zero and One and No Man’s Land, among others. Jack received a full scholarship to complete a Masters Degree in Composition while working on No Man’s Land, and travelled with the projects production throughout Europe, India and New Zealand. As part of his masters he also created music in collaboration with musicians from Indonesia, Greece and The Philippines, and spent three weeks in The Philippines working with Kalinga folk musicians (with one of these collaborations featuring on Parlour EP).
Jack has been involved with Indonesian gamelan music for a number of years, performing with the groups Gamelan Padhang Moncar (Javanese) and Gamelan Taniwha Jaya (Balinese). He composed pieces for both groups that were performed in Indonesia during a three-week tour in 2013. In 2016 he received an Indonesian Arts and Culture Scholarship, spending four months in West Sumatra studying talempong music.
