Material from Divum Ficta - Live-Set  
The first performance of Divum Ficta will be in Fall 2021

Divum Ficta / Lucky Skies (electronics only)

The Gap - New Improv

Performer by Corrine Byrne, soprano, and Andy Kozar, trumpet.  January 29, 2025 at the Jewish Museum of South Florida as part of the 2025 New Music Miami Festival

“But am I who I was” is based upon Don DeLillo’s novel Zero K, specifically the “Artis Martineau” section that is told from the perspective of a narrator who is in cryogenic suspension. To prepare the text for the work I trained multiple machine learning algorithms with the text from this section of the novel. I then used these algorithms to create a text that presents the narrator’s thoughts first forming unintelligible single words and sentence fragments, to progressively forming intelligible sentences and phrases, before again becoming progressively unintelligible. To best present this process, I greatly restricted the musical materials and their relationships so that the listener can better experience the linguistic processes and their relationships to the sonic and musical materials. 

I wrote “But am I who I was” for the Byrne:Kozar:Duo and, as such, dedicate it to both Corrine and Andy.

Jacob David Sudol
January 20, 2025
Miami Beach, Florida

"But am I who I was" for soprano, trumpet, and electronics

April 2 - Distortion Play

A demo of a slow harmony study using a 1-3-5-9-11 Dekany

Six of Swords (Rotation 9) - v3 DEMO

Live at Peace in the Valley - April 14, 2025

Commissioned by Li-Teng Huang and PIPAEnsemble
Pipa: Li-Teng Huang
Cello: Joe Wan

2025.05.03 Zhongshan Auditorium, Taipei City, Taiwan

群峰層浪 (Layering waves across the mountain peaks)，給琵琶、大提琴與電子音樂
(2025)

此作品受黃立騰與琵琶雅集委託，以台北的相關地景與記憶為發想創作，於二零二五年春季完稿。

在《群峰層浪》中，我所聚焦的是環山縱走，當風吹越山嶺、層疊的群草化成一片浪濤的景象。──在我的記憶中，在山嵐與磺氣氤氳間，春夏時是滿山綠草如茵，入秋之後則披上雲霧與芒草交織成的蒼茫。在除了風聲之外只剩下寂靜的峰頂，偶爾可以望見遠方的海，一片無盡湛藍、亦是一海未知的深遂。自從十多年前搬至沼澤地帶旅居之後，山逐漸於我賦予了特殊的意義：它象徵遺世獨立的境地，象徵不斷流逝的時間與無盡憧憬，也見證了天地萬物的恆常與多變。關於山嶺群峰的記憶是美麗、感慨、深刻、並且疼痛的。我在樂曲中探索琵琶、大提琴、以及電子音樂之間的，跨越時空與文化的對話，以共構一個有機的聲景空間：如同人生的波瀾，層層疊疊推向孤寂的峰頂，推向永無止盡的未來。

Layering waves across the mountain peaks (2025) for pipa, cello, and live electronics

Adrift

Performance of Chen-Hui Jen's "In Fading Colors of Autumn Hills" commissioned by Accordant Commons on March 18, 2016 Automata, Los Angeles.
Performers: Tany Ling, Argenta Walther, Stephanie Aston

Chen-Hui Jen In Fading Colors of Autumn Hills

Accordant Commons

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