(Live recording – Mari Kimura: Violin, Jacob David Sudol: Electronics, Editing, Mixing)

The Floating Bridge of Dreams (夢浮橋) is the fourth and final piece of a cycle of works for solo string instruments for live electronics based upon chapters from the Japanese novel Tale of the Genji.  The work takes its title from the last chapter of the novel and, like the last three pieces of the cycle, it is based on the unresolved relationships and cycles of desires and disappointment that form the emotional core to the later Uji chapters.  Following this constantly progressing yet cyclical form, this movement contains multiple transformations of materials from the previous pieces in the cycle as well as suddenly introduces and leaves unresolved multiple new transitional materials.

The work was written for the violinist Mari Kimura and who premiered it at the Miami Beach Urban Studios as part of the ISCM New Music Miami Festival on March 20, 2015.

Jacob David Sudol
August 7, 2015 
Taipei, Taiwan


The Floating Bridge of Dreams (夢浮橋) – violin and electronics (2015)

Jorge García del Valle Méndez grew up in Spain, where he studied bassoon and composition. Since 1996 he lives in Germany where he studied composition and electronic music.

His compositional style is based on the articulation of time through sound structures, often through electronic means as sound generators or as a method of composition.

Through electronic music he became interested in digital analysis and sound processing, which he has applied to theoretical and musical works. He has also researched into digital analysis in Bassoon multiphonics and their sound possibilities in the application to contemporary music.

His compositional career has definitely taken an international course. His works are performed and broadcasted worldwide since 1993. He frequently receives commissions from various international institutions.

Several prices gave international recognition to his music. He has been recipient of the Salvatore Martirano Composition Award of the University of Illinois (USA) and the Sächsischer Musikrat Composition Award (Germany). He also received an Honorary Mention in the Concours International de Composition de Musique Electroacoustique de Monaco.

He has participated in numerous festivals, including the Festival Bernaola (Spain), the Electronic Music Midwest Festival EMM (USA), the SICMF Festival (South Korea), the NYCEMF (USA), the ICMC, the EMUFest (Italy) and the WOCMAT (Taiwan).

In 2012 he was invited at the Härjedalens Summer Academy in Sweden as composition's lecturer.

I like historical trombones. I like modern trombones.

American composer of classical, non-pop, electronic, and electroacoustic music. NiwoSound is a label representing not only Layton's music, but albums of unusual creative work by other artists both in the U.S.A. and beyond.

Corrina Bonshek (b 1977) is a Australian composer whose music has been described as ‘beautifully shaped and contemplative’ (Clare MacClean, 2013) and ‘deeply spiritual in intent’ (Anne Boyd, 2002). She has a PhD in Contemporary Arts from Western Sydney University.

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.