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Isaac Sherman is a musician, composer and filmmaker living in Los Angeles, California. He uses synthesizers, drum machines, samplers, field recordings and a variety of acoustic instruments to explore sonic curiosities through improvisation, composition and collaboration. He is interested in using synthesis to emulate physical instruments, creating an uncanny relationship between intuitive listening and inquisitive aural exploration.
In 2025, Sherman released A Pasture, Its Limits and toured the West Coast and Midwest. He frequently performs around Los Angeles and has collaborated with artists such as Nicole McCabe, Dustin Wong, MA Tiesenga, Max Jaffe and more. He has scored films by Cecelia Condit and Josh Weissbach.
“An adventurous electroacoustic artist working in the tradition of Terry Riley and Laurie Spiegel, Isaac Sherman combines the refracted glow of L.A.’s ambient jazz scene with more tactile synth excursions. Though adroit at loop-based synth improvisation, Sherman has turned to tighter structures and more definite rhythms for his first proper album. Though its name suggests a concern with boundaries and demarcations, A Pasture Its Limits finds ways to make the territory it stakes out feel expansive if not endless…”
-- Aquarium Drunkard
Sherman holds a BFA in Film Studies from University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. His films have screened at festivals and events such as the Ann Arbor Film Festival, Prismatic Ground (NYC), Light Field (San Francisco), Los Angeles Film Forum, Engauge (Seattle), Prisme (France), Chicago Underground Film Festival, Crossroads (San Francisco), Milwaukee Underground Film Festival and internationally, including festivals and screenings in Spain, France, Germany, Argentina, Iceland, Taiwan and Colombia.