Alex Tedrow, a current Jacobs School B.M. composition student, was recently hired to compose an original score for The Addict’s Wake, a feature-length documentary in production that examines the deep scars that addiction to meth and opioids leave on the user and on the community as a whole.
The film takes place in nearby Brown County, IN, serving as a microcosm of what is happening across the nation. The project will be carried out in conjunction with Emmy Award-winning director Michael Husain, producer Lisa Hall, the Jacobs Community Engagement Initiative, and the IU Center for Rural Engagement under the mentorship of IU film scoring professor, Larry Groupé. The film’s soundtrack will involve both existing music by local Brown County musicians and a composed score set to the film recorded by student performers in the Jacobs School of Music. The Addict’s Wake is set to release early this summer across television and streaming platforms.
Alex Tedrow is a composer, musician, and educator who strives to inspire and connect performers and listeners of all ages to fresh, fun, and innovative music and technology. Offering a “vivacious and colorful” voice described as a “topography of beautifully integrated and deliberate sounds” (Eric Smedley), his diverse catalogue includes band, orchestra, choral, chamber, solo, electroacoustic, and sound installation pieces.
In 2019, Alex studied at the Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique in Paris where he premiered Planet Playground – an interactive, data-driven project incorporating crowd participation via mobile devices. He is currently co-composing the soundtrack for a new video game by Red Ink Games, The Shadows that Linger.
An active member of the new music community, Alex has been featured at the SCI Student National Conference, the National Student Electronic Music Event (NSEME), and the Navy Band Saxophone Symposium. In 2020, he was awarded the IU Morris and Sheila Hass Award in Computer Music and was a semi-finalist for the ASCAP Morton Gould Award. He also recently received the Austin B. Caswell Musicology Award for his research in medieval-era music notation.
Alex is pursuing a B.M. degree in music composition with minors in education, electronic music, and conducting at the Jacobs School of Music. He is an avid animal lover, biker, and spelunker – all themes that often inspire his work. He additionally works as the Community Engagement Specialist at the Jacobs Community Engagement Initiative, where he channels his own rural background to help connect Indiana rural communities with Jacobs School of Music resources and opportunities.
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