Jessica Freites

Jessica Freites is a multidisciplinary artist and teaching artist with a centralized focus in sound, based out of Miami, Florida. Her work revolves around the relationship occurring between the subconscious mind’s effect on communication; be it external, internal, written, verbal, non-verbal, sonic, visual, etc. and communication’s effect on the subconscious mind. She is especially interested in the bridge that is built, or may already exist between listener and receiver and what occurs within that in between space…

Jessica started off her relationship with artistic expression as a child through her years of formal training in piano and violin. Later on she frequented open mics in the name of spoken word and spent another decade dedicated to the business side of music at companies such as Fatbeats, the William Morris Agency, Warner Chappell, Inc., etc. Here she gained even more of an in depth understanding of music’s influence and power in deeply affecting people consciously as well as subconsciously. In turn, her focus became the process of communication. In order to further pursue her exploration into the subconscious mind she became a certified sound therapist and integrates this approach into understanding and creating the process of the process itself. Jessica has held various musical arts performance residencies with the arts non-profits, Arts For Learning and VSA and is a music mentor through the music based non-profit Guitars Over Guns. She encourages students to make connections between their internal and external environments in order to heal, empower and create with intention. She has also lent her creative contributions to the arts non-profit, YoungArts and was one of the artists chosen to attend the Cultural Currents Artist Residency for 2016 hosted in Suriname through the arts non-profit, Diaspora Vibe Arts Incubator.