His pieces mix live-processed moving images, music and sound to create unique multimedia settings in which performers can interact. He is fascinated by what he sees as the interconnectedness of things: people with places, sounds with textures, humans with animals, plants and the natural world. Jacob lives happily in Providence, Rhode Island with his girlfriend, cat and dog, and is a doctoral candidate in the MEME program at Brown University. He will perform “Speak, Stone,” a non-fiction video about Canto a Tenores folksinging as well as the people, animals and landscape in and around the town of Bitti, Sardinia. Featuring the Tenores di Bitti “Mialinu Pira.”