Jacqueline Humbert is an American recording, performance and visual artist, as well as a designer for film, television and live performing arts.[1][2][3][4] Under the name J. Jasmine, she recorded a song cycle, J Jasmine: My New Music (with collaborators
David Rosenboom and
George Manupelli) which dealt progressively with topics such as
androgyny and female sexual agency. The cycle was presented at the
Ann Arbor Film Festival in 1978.[5] Her artistic persona on this release has been described as "a Linda Ronstadt for the avant garde".[5] She would collaborate again with
Rosenboom (and percussionist
William Winant) in 1979–80 on the song cycle Daytime Viewing (released 1983), which uses the framework of soap operas to deal with themes of commercialism, family, fashion, and abuse.[3]
She enjoyed a longstanding working relationship with the avant-garde opera composer
Robert Ashley.[4] She was married to composer
David Rosenboom, and they were divorced in 2012.[6]
Biofeedback artworks
In the 1970s Humbert created several artworks based on biofeedback devices while in the research lab of David Rosenboom at York University, Canada: Alpha Garden (1973), Brainwave Etch-A-Sketch (1974) and Chilean Drought (Rosenboom & Humbert, 1974).[7]
Discography
Robert Ashley - Atalanta Acts of God 2, Lovely Music, Ltd. CD, 2010
Robert Ashley - Now Eleanor's Idea, Lovely Music, Ltd. CD, 2008
Robert Ashley - Concrete, Lovely Music, Ltd. CD, 2008
Future Travel (with David Rosenboom), New World, 2007
Robert Ashley - Celestial Excursions, Lovely Music, Ltd. CD, 2005
Robert Ashley - Foreign Experiences, Lovely Music, Ltd. CD, 2005
Chanteuse, Lovely Music, Ltd. CD 4001, 2004
Alvin Lucier, Music for Piano with Magnetic Strings, Lovely Music, Ltd. CD, 2000
Robert Ashley - Dust, Lovely Music, Ltd. CD 1006, 2000
Robert Ashley - Your Money My Life Goodbye, Lovely Music, Ltd. CD 1005, 1999
Robert Ashley - Atalanta (Acts of God), Lovely Music, Ltd. CD 3301 (2 CDs), 1997
Robert Ashley - eL/Aficionado, Lovely Music, Ltd. CD 1004, 1994
Robert Ashley - Improvement (Don Leaves Linda), Elektra/Nonesuch 79289(2), 1992
Robert Ashley - Atalanta Strategy, Lovely Music, Ltd. VHS, 1986
Daytime Viewing (with David Rosenboom), Chez Hum-Boom Publishing, Frog Peak Music (cassette), 1983/88
Music Word Fire And I Would Do It Again (Coo Coo): The Lessons, Lovely Music, Ltd. VHS, 1981
J. Jasmine...My New Music, songs and lyrics by J. Humbert, Chez Hum-Boom Publishing and A.R.C. Records, and Frog Peak Music DR001, 1978