NYCEMF 2020

Program Notes:

Ambalangoda was created for the Cities and Memory Global Collaborative Sound Project. The source recording was gathered by Stephane Marin of Espaces Sonores. The source recording features sounds from a busy roadway in Ambalangoda, Sri Lanka. These source sounds are reimagined into a kind of daydream, one that quickly focuses on particular sounds, changes the perception of the passage of time, and remixes foreground and background materials at the slightest whim.

Biography:

Jonah Elrod is a composer who researches cycles and signals from the Earth and incorporates them into his music. His works are inspired by and engage with issues surrounding our environment and human perception of the natural world. His music has been performed at many new music festivals including the Society of Composers, Inc. National Conference, the John Donald Robb Composers Symposium, the New Music on the Bayou Festival, the Wisconsin Alliance for Composers Festival, the Hot Air Music Festival, the TUTTI Festival, the New Music Gathering, and the New Gallery Series in Cambridge, MA. He recently worked as a visiting assistant professor of music at Luther College, and is currently a board member of the Iowa Composers Forum. He earned his Ph.D. in music composition from the University of Iowa where he also served as an associate director of the electronic music studios.