Jesse Kudler is a writer, musician, composer, performer, and sound artist working in improvisation, collaboration, and site specificity.

He has authored or edited and advised successful grant applications to the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage, American Composers Forum Philadelphia, Independence Foundation, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Venture Fund, I-Park Foundation Fellowship, and others.

His artistic work has been supported in Philadelphia by Mural Arts Philadelphia, Bowerbird, Ars Nova Workshop, the University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Icebox Project Space, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Fleisher Art Memorial, the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage, American Composers Forum Philadelphia Chapter, and others.

He was a 2019 Exchange Fellow at Elsewhere and performed at {Re}HAPPENING 2019 at Black Mountain College. He has performed as part of the Cage: Beyond Silence festival, Sonic Circuits Festival, No Idea Festival, Dartmouth Festival of New Musics, and the Phoneme Festival, and across the US and Canada. He has presented workshops at universities and community spaces. Kudler holds a BA in Music from Wesleyan University.

Kudler was the co-founder and co-director of the Philadelphia Sound Forum, a concert presentation resource, for which he wrote promotional copy. At International House Philadelphia, he curated “Sonic Arts Union Retrospective” and co-created and co-curated the “Wave Current” series of live music events with live visuals, including writing catalog copy and press releases. He has also written and edited web content, media advisory, and press releases for political organizations and gallery shows.