As an 8th grader, Shore found his inspiration for making music at a Ratatat concert, where he thought to himself, “that’s splendid, I’m going to try to make some music as well.” He started off like every beginning producer does, with terrible music. But, what sets Shore apart from the others is that he was able to stick with it. Shore refused to give up his passion for music producing and was never discouraged by the product that he created.

 Michael Holmes ’11, Shore’s friend and a fellow music producer, describes Shore’s focus as one of his strongest qualities.  “He’s definitely got talent.  He’s better than I was at his age and seems more focused,” said Holmes.  “His music is already starting to grapple with some pretty experiential sound design, which is an element that a lot of young electronic musicians simply don’t possess in their songs.”

This is high praise from a friend who has devoted much of his own life to the art of music production. Shore met Holmes several years back and he credits him as his first mentor, explaining that it was Holmes who gave him the software that would help Shore with his first tracks.

Shore also has acheived mastery in other realms of media, such as filmmaking. A filmmaker by trade, Shore has a multitude of skills with the medium.  He has developed the ability to synthesize his two talents into one.

“I made a song earlier this year and ended up being really happy with it, so I threw together a little music video for it. It’s more of just like visuals to go along with the audio. But sometimes if I need audio to go behind something I’m working on, I can make something for it,” he said.

Another friend of Shore’s, Jamie Morgan ’11, believes that Shore represents the wave of popularity that electronic music has recently endured. 

“I think electronic music is close to a new threshold of innovation. I’m not sure what it is, but I think a lot of people are listening to a lot more or less conventional music, which is beginning to really influence popular music.”

Jake is a part of this new “threshold” it seems, and he is just getting started. His music doesn’t sound like the typical West Coast heavy bass thump music that comes out of the mainstream. As Morgan explains, “Jake’s music is light hearted beauty in my opinion. I love it.”