Welcome to the website of musicologist Marina Sudo.

My research focuses on twentieth- and twenty-first-century music analysis, theory, history and aesthetics, with special interest in serial and post-serial compositional techniques, electronic and electroacoustic music and the integration of multiple analytical approaches (score-based, listening-based and computational). I completed my undergraduate and master’s degrees in musicology at Tokyo University of the Arts. In 2015, I moved to Basel and later to Nice to conduct research on the manuscript sketches and scores of Pierre Boulez. I completed my PhD at KU Leuven in 2021 with the dissertation The Nature of Noise: An Aural Analytical Inquiry of Noise in Contemporary Musical Practice—Xenakis, Lachenmann, Ablinger, and Merzbow, which was recognised by the 2022 Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts (KVAB). After three years as a postdoctoral researcher at KU Leuven, I began in 2024 my current project Listening Beyond the Score: Integrated Analysis of Twentieth- and Twentieth-first-century Music at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz (Kunstuniversität Graz), awarded an ESPRIT grant by the FWF Austrian Science Funded. In this project I examine the possibility of a new form of musical analysis for contemporary repertoire in which score-oriented, sound-based aural and computer-aided analyses are combined, focusing on the works of Kaija Saariaho, Pierre Boulez, Franck Bedrossian, Stefan Prins, Olga Neuwirth and Maki Ishii.