Self-described as an "avant-pop composer", Jacob TV's music takes inspiration from Steve Reich, mixing classical music with elements of popular culture in a postmodernist manner.

Jacob ter Veldhuis was born on 14 November 1951 in Westerlee, Netherlands.

[1][3] Jacob TV's music includes elements of American popular culture and mass media, in a postmodernist manner.

[4] Commentators frequently compare this approach to the visual arts; the music critic Anne Midgette likened it to Pop art, particularly the collages of Tom Wesselmann,[5] while the musicologist Kevin Lewis described it as Warholian.

[6] Jacob TV describes himself as an "avant-pop composer"; in light of his largely tonal style he remarks: "I pepper my music with sugar".