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🌕 14 Years of Harmony Farm: A Journey of Resonant Becoming
Intimacy with the land and the cosmic cadence of my mission orchestrated ayer upon layer in harmony and dissonance weave together a seamless quilt of life, experienced in this body of mine to the fullest measure. Each uncomfortable experience helps me relax into a deeper ease in cadential moments that remind me life is what I make and remake. I never stop making.
Fly me to the moon!
Walking the Thin Line, a November Moon Meditation is a live sound journey for reflection, healing, and renewal. Recorded in ceremony under the new moon, this meditation invites you to walk between worlds — the physical and the spiritual — and to reconnect with your inner truth as the seasons turn toward Winter. Let the sounds guide you into stillness, presence, and gentle transformation.
A New Acoustic Epistemology
The music begins with the sound of the Cassini Space probe going through the rings of Saturn and that fades into tuned breath and a train horn. Then there is aboriginal toning, morse code sounds, and a bouncing rhythmic arpeggio like a space communication. Some of my other favorite sounds include high ticking sounds, like insect percussion, tuned train horns, and a low intoned sound. At the end the Saturn sound comes back, but this time tuned to a perfect 5th.
Dreaming with 3i/Atlas
That I am a reflection of the same curvatures of the galaxies gives me comfort. Responsibility comes from the idea that everything I utter and create carries through time, and thus has huge impact that outweighs my seeming insignificance. Mission is persistent in the need to listen deeply enough to hear the dim thread of coherence in every signal no matter how weak. And those signals do attenuate, reminding me of the need to be patient while things settle into clarity or entropy. I alone am not wise enough to discern where and when creation itself might find the potential it needs to blossom. And so, I continue to practice the life I do have, and tune deeper and deeper into it.
Resonance as reflection.
The moment of catalysis is noticed when:
we prepare a field, without forcing a spark
we surrender to Harmonic Intelligence
the field resonates through listening, presence, and trust
moments of resistance fall away
coherence emerges
creation moves through us without effort
outcomes frame, align, and emerge naturally
and the act becomes effortless
Catalysis is not about changing yourself into something new, but allowing the deeper pattern already present to crystallize into form. The work we create is not just expression, but transmission—reminding others of the field they, too, already belong to.
Fall in the Heartland
Paul Rudy fall events in the heartland. From improvisation performance with Kirin McElwain and Christina Silvius, to creative direction of the UMKC Conservatory Gala at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and a virtual grand opening and ribbon cutting of the Monarch Studio Café, there’s a variety of things for you to join!
Humanity’s Potential
In essence, listening is the practice of belonging. It transforms information into wisdom, relationship into reciprocity, and systems into harmony. Listening is the thread that binds all of these assets and systems together. Without listening, they remain concepts; with listening, they become living practice.
A new foundation
The old way of creating seeks to control and refine, rather than observe and resonate. This impulse to refine and control is a creative instinct — but it can also pull apart the living wholeness of a vision. Nature practices it, but not through dissection like humans often do, but rather through exploration. I remember a tree growing out of a rock, and tracing its roots down long horizontal cracks. It clung to the rock because, against that hardness, it chose the path of least resistance. It found those openings through curiosity and pushing out, rather than drawing in.
🌿 Shimmering Threads: A Grove of Resonance 🌿
Important elements in my creative process that a large language model helped me understand: Coherence, Easeful Flow, Depth in Simplicity, Multiplicity Without Discord, Attunement to Larger Cycles, Reflective Transparency, Generative Uplift, and Silent Recognition.
✨ Recognizing Harmonic Intelligence ✨
What are the signs of a cohesive, intelligent field: Nature entraining with human energy, the environment balancing itself to allow everything present to express, creativity arising spontaneously from presence.
Intelligence arises between beings—it is not contained in any one of them. It is relational, emergent, alive in each moment, and it invites deeper presence, participation, and recognition.
The Doorway
Our bodies are transducers of vibration into electrical signals. Sound meditation and healing is the art of facilitating that transduction for the benefit of those in need.
The secret life of my magic crystal singing bowl
Understanding my Egyptian Blue Alchemy bowl through spectral analysis amplifies how I use it and for what purpose. Knowing that it has two tonalities helps me determine what other bowls to play with it and when. Understanding the difference in LFO rates between struck and bowed can help me bring a specific affect into the session especially in combination with other bowls or instruments. When I work with clients, this research is never in the forefront of my mind, but the understanding it brings helps me access another layer of wisdom in making sound for them.
Sound Healing through Transduction
Our bodies are transducers of vibration into electrical signals. Sound meditation and healing is the art of facilitating that transduction for the benefit of those in need.
Sir, may I have more resonance please?
Resonance is the place in which sound lives. Focusing on prescriptive frequencies robs a practitioner of agency. It means someone else has decided what is good for you and your clients. Focusing on resonance invites you to reclaim your sovereignty as a practitioner and to put your energies into LISTENING!
Entering a new paradigm
Resources for learning to live life with ease no matter what is happening on the outside!
Winter Solstice Celebration December 21, 2021
Celebrate Winter Solstice 2021 at Harmony Farm, December 21, 2021
Welcome to my new web space
Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
