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Episode 04: Exploring the Relationship Between Technology and Creativity with Jacob Sudol

In this episode, Prof. Dr. Jacob Sudol discusses the relationship between technology and creativity and how he uses modern technologies to recall the past. He also reveals his deep affinity for Tibetan instruments, particularly the enchanting tingsha, and divulges the reasons behind his unwavering fascination with its distinctive timbre.

About Jacob Sudol

Jacob David Sudol uses new technologies to create intimate compositions that explore enigmatic phenomena, the inner nature of how we perceive sound, as well as novel connections between Eastern and Western musical cultures. His music has been performed nearly 200 times by many prestigious ensembles and performers across the USA as well as Taiwan, Canada, Mexico, China, Japan, Korea, England, Netherlands, Italy, Germany, Thailand, Singapore, and Cambodia. In addition, Dr. Sudol recently completed a chapter on his music for the upcoming Oxford University Press Handbook of Spectral Music.

In 2012, Sudol founded a cello/electro-acoustic duo with his colleague, the distinguished cellist Jason Calloway. Since 2010, he has been in the Misty Shore Duo, a piano/electro-acoustic duo with his wife, Chen-Hui Jen. He has also worked as a recording engineer and producer for albums released on Mode, Albany, Bridge, MSR, Metier, Centaur, and Neuma Records.

Dr. Sudol is an Associate Professor of Music Technology and Composition at Florida International University and Coordinator of the Music Technology Area. He was also awarded a 2015-16 Fulbright Fellowship to research and teach in Taiwan.

Sudol’s book recommendation to our listeners

Alvin Lucier: Reflections. Interviews, scores, writings 1965-1994

Robert Van Gulik: The Lore of The Chinese Lute

Tim Rutherford-Johnson: Music After the Fall: Modern Composition and Culture Since 1989

Find more about Jacob Sudol

http://www.jacobsudol.com/

https://mistyshore.bandcamp.com/

The Music Technology program at Florida International University

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Pedja Kovačević
Pedja Kovačević

Pedja Kovačević is a Serbian-born musicologist, curator, and music producer, and the founder of Soundologia — a curatorial platform, record label, podcast, and festival dedicated to contemporary and experimental music. He moved to the United States in 2018 and holds degrees in musicology from the Faculty of Music, University of Arts in Belgrade, and in Music Management and Production from Florida International University’s School of Music.

As curator and executive producer of the Soundologia Anthology series, Pedja has commissioned, produced, and released three volumes documenting the work of South Florida’s contemporary composers and sound artists, presented in connection with the Soundologia Anthology Festival in Miami. He has taught experimental and electroacoustic music at FIU’s School of Music and has worked as a program coordinator and music administrator at music and arts schools in Miami.

As a musicologist and music writer, Pedja has published articles and presented research at international conferences and forums in the United States, Poland, Greece, and Serbia. His writing explores the relationship between music and other art forms, including painting, architecture, poetry, prose, and photography, as well as questions of listening, sound, and musical perception. His research has also examined Deep Listening, a concept introduced by American composer Pauline Oliveros, as a way of reconsidering the aesthetic dimensions of sound. Through Soundologia, Pedja promotes contemporary and experimental music and presents extended conversations with composers and sound artists about their work.

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