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• Quiet Piece

  An adaptation of Burdock Birds.

• Quiff

  Fixed Media Piece

• rain over tallin (dedication to Arvo Pärt)

• Random Access

  The title Random Access reflects the process used with random access memory (RAM) in computer hardware, where all incoming data can be stored and small chunks of data can be retrieved regardless of the order in which it was stored. Similarly, in Random Access all of the input from the live saxophonist is stored in the computer’s RAM. As the piece progresses, short samples of the performer are retrieved and reordered to create new contrapuntal lines. The piece begins with a simple duet between the live saxophone and the reordered material, but gradually evolves to large orchestra of sampled saxophones. While the title may imply that the retrieval process is random, it is anything but random; the input from the saxophone is precisely scripted and all electronic sounds created live.

• Recombinant Serenade

  This work is based on Serenade by Benjamin Britten and was for Lin Foulk.

• ReCycle

  ReCycle uses my recordings of a refrigerator, a freezer, a floor furnace, ice melting, water boiling, a Jacob’s ladder I built, a faulty faucet, and noise between pieces in old 78 recordings. Some of these sounds have large cycles such as the refrigerator, freezer and floor furnace cycling on and off, but there are also cyclic patterns within their “on-times.” The Jacob’s ladder has an irregular cycle. The faulty water faucet, the penultimate sound in the piece, and the looped noise between pieces from an old recording at the very end have the most consistent rhythmic cycles. The “Re” in the title comes from both the use of the sounds of my re-frigerator, and the recycling of unused source materials from some of my previous works, including Distant Thunder, Fluid Dynamics, and System Test.

• Redundancy in Perceptual and Linguistic Experience

  Algorithmic text based programming; Nyquist Programming Language

• Remembering Allen

  2- & 4-channel mixes available
  
  Published on 60×60 Crimson Mix, 2010
  
  (www.60×60.com/2010_Crimson_Mix.htm)
  
  Composed in memory of Allen Strange (1943 – 2008)

• Requiem for the Living

• Resonances

  (Score and electronics available upon request – jacob.sudol@gmail.com)
  
  quad and stereo versions also available
  
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  Program Note
  
  Would that the sound of the bell might go beyond our earth,
  And be heard even by all in the darkness outside the Cakravala;
  Would that, their organ of hearing become pure, beings might attain perfect infusion of the senses,
  So that every one of them might come finally to the realization of supreme enlightenment.
  
  -bell gatha enchanted after reading the Samantamukha-Parivarta
  
  The 2010-2011 version of Resonances for metallic percussion and live electronics was recorded by percussionist Nathan Davis at the University of California in January 2011. The recording was engineered by Martin Hiendl. I mixed, edited, and mastered the recording from January to April 2011. The first versions of the piece, composed from 2005 to 2007, were performed by the Brazilian percussionist Fernando Rocha. This would piece would not be possible without the invaluable help from Fernando Rocha and Nathan Davis.
  
  –Jacob David Sudol
  Spring 2011
  La Jolla, CA