Jason Matthew Malli, M.F.A., M.A.L.S., a longtime resident of Connecticut, has composed music for over 30 years. After completing his MFA in Music Composition at Vermont College of Fine Arts in 2013, concentrating on both contemporary concert and electroacoustic music, Malli continues to delve into the realms of microtones, poly-temporality, sound masses, extended instruments, analog synthesis, and digital sound all while still cultivating his life long passion and interest for folkloric melodies and the exploration of human narratives as effective vehicles for artistic expression. Recent accomplishments to include two multi-speaker surround sound realizations of “consubstantial,” an electroacoustic fixed media composition, first premiered in the 3D Spatialization Lab at the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival in 2014 and more recently at The Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology’s 15th Biennial Symposium at Connecticut College as an Emerging Artist Recipient. Other compositions received successful premieres in the Open Sound Installation at the 2014 SEAMUS National Conference at Wesleyan University and the inaugural Emerging Composers Concert at Boston Conservatory sponsored by Boston Musica Viva in April 2014. Jason’s chamber ensemble composition, “The Gathering of Sects” was followed by a Meet the Composers Panel Discussion with Boston Musica Viva’s Musical Director, Richard Pittman.

Equally composing for both contemporary concert and electroacoustic mediums, Jason Matthew Malli employs an aesthetic exploring the redistribution of musical elements and properties within the realm of structural prioritization. In his concert compositions, non-temporal jurisdiction practices, common in free improvisation, merge as sound masses do in electroacoustic music. His process aims to expand and contract minimal and microcosmic gestures inside broader contexts of timbre, time, spectrum, and perception as exemplified by Toward Syzygy for Percussion Trio.

Motetus Obscura for Chamber Ensemble and Electronics features strictly composed sections complemented by improvisational passages assigning matrices of choices to performers to freely alter tempo contrapuntally against the ensemble. This process allows for workflows similar to his process for using electronics in both fixed media and live digital processing environments. Malli’s pre-recorded and live instrument sounds often suggest folkloric tunes or ancient melismata within new abstract formulations.

Enter into the listening experiences of Chimaera for Solo Violin, The Delightful Garden and Massive Energetic Shift 040916 for haunting quarter-tone passages. Malli’s recent works are a return to vocal, instrumental, and digital alternative scales and tonalities and his desire to stretch pitch beyond and into fractal and dimensional imaginations. Per aspera ad astra, consubstantial, Tempus fugit, and incarnate mix digitally-processed instruments and voices with analog and granular synthesis sometimes employing generative and algorithmic considerations.

Jason Matthew Malli welcomes commissions for new works for solo, chamber music, and full ensemble works for instrumental and choral groups of all levels from school-aged to professional. Compositions may be requested for any genre or style to be tailored for a specific event, venue, or theme and may include the addition of electronic sounds. Collaborations may include guest lectures, workshops, and conducting.