–McGill Contemporary Music Ensemble with the McGill Digital Composition Studio (Jacob David Sudol, electronics); April 2006 at McGill University, Montréal

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Program Note

“I am Time, the waster of  the peoples,
Ready for the hour that ripens to their ruin.”

-Bhagavad-Gita

“Time is what keeps the light from reaching us.  There is no greater obstacle to God than time.”

-Meister Eckhart

“Of course in music too the problem of time is central.  Here, however, its solution is quite different: the life force of music is materialized on the brink of its own total disappearance.”

-Andrey Tarkovsky

Time Fixtures was composed as part of the first-ever composer-in-residence position for the McGill Contemporary Music Ensemble in collaboration with the McGill Digital Composition Studio.  The acoustic material was written in 2005, and the electronics were constructed in early 2006.  The work is dedicated to Denys Bouliane (director of the CME), Sean Ferguson (director of the DCS), and John Rea (my mentor during the realization of this project).

-Jacob David Sudol
Montréal, Québec 18/2/2006

Time Fixtures (2005-07)

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.