Jason Alder is a contemporary, improvising, and electronic musician. Hailing from the metro Detroit area, he is an alumnus of the Interlochen Center for the Arts summer programs, and received his Bachelor of Music in Music Performance on clarinet from Michigan State University (US) with secondary focus on bass clarinet and saxophone, as well as on computer/electronic music and ethnomusicology, all while working as an audio and live sound engineer for the Recording Services department. He is currently attending the Conservatorium van Amsterdam (NL), studying bass clarinet. Past and current teachers and instructors include Richard Alder, Richard Hawkins, Kimberly Cole, Andrew Harwood, Frank Ell, Yaniv Nachum, Ernesto Molinari, and Erik van Deuren. He also studied electronic and computer music with Mark Sullivan and live electronics and advanced rhythm/Contemporary Music through Non Western Techniques with Jos Zwaanenburg.

Jason is an active musician, keeping a busy performance schedule as a soloist, improviser, chamber musician, session musician, and with various bands, orchestras, and jazz ensembles in the United States and Europe. He is a specialist in new and contemporary music, and has been working closely with composers while in Amsterdam, having premiered several pieces for solo or as part of an ensemble. As an improviser, he is a founding member of the electro-acoustic improvisation duo Sonido 13; is a member of the Magic Lantern Show Orchestra, which improvises soundtracks to silent films; works with members of the improvised dance and theater community; and plays often with other members of the Amsterdam improvised and experimental music scene.

He has performed in the Berliner Philharmonie, at the International Gaudeamus Muziekweek in Amsterdam's Muziekgebouw in 2006 & 2009, as well as the 2008 Internationale Saxofoonweek in Amsterdam. In 2009 he attended the IMPULS International Ensemble- and Composers-Academy for Contemporary Music where he worked with members of Klangforum Wien, as well as taking part in the MELE (Motion Enabled Live Electronics) workshop. In addition, he produces in various genres of electronic and electro-acoustic music as a member of the collective TransformersDetroit, including a piece for bass clarinet and electronics, A'd amssong. The most recent work has been collaborations with hip-hop producer Das. Past projects include playing bass guitar, saxophones, clarinets, or electronics in various bands including Exchange Bureau, June Ruin, the Toobnoodles, and Spinfist.

In addition to teaching clarinet and saxophone lessons, Jason is also a skilled recording engineer and editor, and operates a small recording business, N&K Music and Audio, out of the Detroit and Amsterdam areas. In conjunction with Midwest Pro Sound, he has engineered recordings for numerous solo, chamber ensemble, band, orchestra, and choral events in southeast Michigan and Amsterdam, as well as all of his own classical and stage band recordings.