JACK operates as a nonprofit organization dedicated to the performance, commissioning, and spread of new string quartet music. Dedicated to education, the quartet spends two weeks each summer teaching at New Music on the Point, a contemporary chamber music festival in Vermont for young performers and composers.
The time spans festival presents a concert featuring JACK and engineers from the SWR Experimental studio in Freiburg, Germany performing works by Felipe Lara, Sabrina Schroede, and Georg Friedrich Haas. All three works feature interactive electronic instruments that were developed in Freiburg and can only be performed with the expertise of engineers from the SWR Experimental studio.