Jacob David Sudol(b. Des Moines, Iowa 1980) writes intimate compositions that explore enigmatic phenomena and the inner nature of how we perceive sound. He recently finished his M.Mus. at McGill University and currently resides in La Jolla, CA where he is working towards a Ph.D. in composition at the University of California at San Diego with Roger Reynolds, Chinary Ung, Philippe Manoury, and Rand Steiger.
Over the last five years some of Jacob's mentors in composition have included John Rea, Denys Bouliane, Philippe Leroux, Sean Ferguson, Dan Asia, and Craig Walsh. He has also participated in master classes with Danish composer Bent Sørensen and German composer Manfred Stahnke.
During 2005-2006, Jacob was the first-ever composer-in-residence for the McGill Contemporary Music Ensemble under the direction of Denys Bouliane, in collaboration with the McGill Digital Composition Studio. He has also written music for the Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, the Contemporary Keyboard Society, percussionist Fernando Rocha, saxophonist Elizabeth Bunt, and clarinetist Krista Martynes. As an undergraduate at the University of Arizona, he composed the music for a collaborative dance project with choreographer Hillary Peterson, and he was the principal composer and pianist for El Proyecto de Santa Barbara, a chamber Latin jazz ensemble.
During the 2005 and 2007 Montréal/Nouvelles Musiques and 2006 MusiMars festivals Jacob was an electronic assistant for performances with Court-Circuit, Matt Haimovitz, Sara Laimon, Martin Matalon, Moritz Eggert, Manfred Stahnke, the Caput Ensemble, and the McGill Contemporary Music Ensemble. These concerts were broadcast by the CBC and the European Broadcasting Union in over fifty countries throughout the world. He is currently a studio research assistant for Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Roger Reynolds.
During his free time Jacob takes an active interest in religious phenomenology, cinema, acoustics, literature, poetry, and visual art. As a composer and performer, he always attempts to bring insights from these other fields into his work.
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One year ago today I posted my first entry on my Sequenza21 blog and following certain obligatory compulsions I feel a need to write a few reflections on the last year or so.
I remember clearly that earlier in the week before my first post I watched Andrei Tarkovsky’s “Passion According to Andrei” for the first time, which has since proven to be a pivotal moment for me, and a few later I saw Ensemble Kore’sfirst concert of last seasonSoon after that, on Canada’s Thanksgiving I wrote the first notes of Time Fixtures.
Frankly, although I had fun writing a few posts early on -- like my early thoughts with spectralism and my happy 80th to Morton Feldman post, which I wrote while Philippe Leroux surrealy checked e-mail in the same room -- it wasn’t until I started posting mp3s blogs that I began to really have fun and feel the potential in blogging on contemporary music. If I hadn’t started posting mp3s, I probably wouldn’t have written 53 entries in this last year (a little over the “entry a week” that Jerry consistently asks for in his calls for new bloggers).
Lastly, to be even a little bit more sentimental, I’d like to thank all my readers (regular, sporadic, and random) since you’re really what keep me doing this. After all, as much as I love listening to music, it’s being able to share it and my thoughts on it that keeps me going. With any luck (especially if I keep planning 20+ posts ahead) by this time next year I hope to have near 150 posts. I hope you’ll keep reading.
