HIL JAEGER

Trained as a classical pianist and composer, Jaeger first reached success in the classical world, performing at Lincoln Center at age 17 before getting her hands on her first digital music software program. Diving deep into audio production, she took the classical practices she had dedicated herself to and applied it to her work as an electronic producer and performer. While studying Music Technology at California Institute of the Arts, she developed and built midi-interfaces and explored the boundaries between experimental and pop techniques. As a queer artist, her work explores the ideas of composing for specifically altered identities of her voice and fuses classical composition and arrangement with innovative audio production techniques that strive to queer genre and creates her unique brand of avant pop.

DJ Raul Campos debuted her track “Run (November)” on his afternoon show, with KCRW soon after featuring the track as “Today’s Top Tune.” The Los Angeles Times premiered her first music video for her single “Solow (April).” The video was entirely hand cut and edited by Jaeger herself, meant to reflect her specific practice of music making in which she cuts and slices hundreds of pieces of "digital" tape. Her single "Eating it's Way in" was featured in the SXSW Grand Jury Award winning film Fort Tilden.

Amidst producing and touring, Jaeger is currently pursuing a Master of Fine Arts in the renowned Electronic Music Program at Mills College.

HIL JAEGER’s tracks

• NEEDED ME (HIL JAEGER) by HIL JAEGER