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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.

Contact:
jacob.sudol@gmail.com

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11/06/2006
Mp3 Blog #38: Mauro Lanza


Mauro Lanza:
”Erba nera che cresci segno nero tu vivi” (1999-2000)
For Soprano and synthesized sounds

Performed by Donatienne Michel-Dansac

”Aschenblume” (2001)
For nine instruments

Performed by Ensemble Court-Circuit

Both recordings are not available commercially

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Although Italian composer Mauro Lanza is one of the better living computer music wizards he writes very imaginative, natural, and – fitting to his personality – quirky music. For example, he has written two compositions (“Barocco” and “Mare”) which use toy instruments and his composition “Burger Time” for tuba (?!) and live electronics mostly uses sounds from the old arcade game ”Burger Time” (click on the link to play the game).

Mauro Lanza has worked and performed research at IRCAM ever since he participated in the 1999 Cursus programme. While there he has worked extensively on developing the acoustic modeling (a technique to create the sounds of imaginary instruments) programme Modalys – which he used to completely generate all stunning the electronic sounds in “Erba nera che cresci segno nero tu vivi.” In other compositions, such as “Aschenblume” (literally translated from German as “Ash Flower”) he also uses the generated spectra from these imaginary instruments to generate his own harmonic worlds.

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