Jason Calloway – Cello and Brainwaves
Jacob David Sudol – Composition, Live Electronics, and Programming

"A Few Tones (for Pauline Oliveros)" is the last part of my concert-long length work titled "…spaces to listen to from within" for cello, 3-D printed cello, brain waves, transduced wind gong, and live electronics.   Throughout this particular movement, the cellist Jason Calloway controls the electronic sounds coming through a wind gong by attempting to control his mental concentration and calmness while ocassionally playing high, long, and nearly inaudible tones on the cello.  The calmer he is, the slower the electronic sounds pulsate.  As the performer concentrates for longer, progressively lower tones replace the higher tones.  Throughout, whenever he blinks a chime sounds through the wind gong. 

By giving a space for one to focus on the activity of the mind as translated by sound, this work intends to pay tribute to the late Pauline Oliveros who sought to open up our ways of listening and to serve as sort of balm for these turbulent times.

-Jacob David Sudol 
February 13, 2017

A Few Tones (for Pauline Oliveros) (2017) (Jason Calloway: cello and brainwaves)

Jacob David Sudol uses new technologies to create intimate compositions that explore enigmatic phenomena, the inner nature of how we perceive sound, and novel connections between Eastern and Western musical cultures.  His music has been performed well over one and fifty hundred times by many prestigious ensembles and performers across the USA, Europe, and Asia.  In addition, Dr. Sudol is currently writing a chapter on his music for the upcoming Oxford University Press Handbook of Spectral Music.  
	
Dr. Sudol is currently an Associate Professor of Music Technology and Composition at Florida International University and was awarded a 2015-16 Fulbright Fellowship to teach and research in Taiwan.