Performed by the Amernet String Quartet:
Misha Vitenson and Avi Nagin, violin
Michael Klotz: viola
Jason Calloway: cello

Jacob Sudol: programing and electronics

Performed live at the FIU-Wolfsonian Museum, Miami Beach, FL.  September 29, 2021

Program Note:

I came up with the title “Time and After” in 2014 when dreaming about a new work for the Amernet String Quartet and live electronics. Similar to the logic in many dreams, the title seemed to made sense at first but became increasingly confusing and complex on closer examination.  While composing the work, I frequently treated this title as a provocation for how I thought about the composition’s sonic materials, form or structure, as well as its treatment of time.

As in many of my recent works, in this quartet I regularly obscure or ignore many conventional aspects of music such as melodic or motific development, clear phrase structure, gestural phrasing, contrapuntal imitation, or clear rhythmic materials.  Instead, I use simple materials to explore inner sonic regions of the string quartet.  I also treat the quartet almost like a single complex organism that alternatively develops, encounters traumatic events, and decays.

“Time and After” was written for and is dedicated to my dear friends of the Amernet String Quartet.  The original version was premiered on October 17th at the 2015 Taipei International New Music Festival and the revised version was presented on September 29, 2021 as part of the 2021 New Music Miami Festival.

Jacob David Sudol October, 5 2015 淡水, 台灣 and October 12, 2021 Miami, Florida

Time and After

"Time and After" (2015 – 2021)for string quartet and live electronics

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.