XLocus: American Academy in Rome
Collaborations
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Film and Video
Compositions composed or licensed for film and video.
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Theater and Dance
Works made in collaboration with directors and choreographers through design and improvisation.
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Public Art
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Photography
“Rudy’s photos take me to a beautiful cosmic place where scale and time have no meaning. His work challenges us to see an entirely obvious but rarely contemplated reality.”
— David Barnes, Shafer Gallery
Works for Cell Phone and Audience Participation
From one drop, an ocean!
Shimmering Threads
Saxophone Quartet and Audience Participation with Cell Phones
Coming Spring 2026
From one drop, an ocean!
Washburn University Edition
Future Works
To commission or license
Explore Surgilab: collaboratively studying how to make the operating room a safer place for patients.
Film and Video
The Earth is My Shelter
Harmony Farm Artfomercial: Music and images by Paul Rudy (2020)
Music for Fractal Videos of Brenda Molloy
Lisa Marie Evans Quantum Qollaborations
(2018) music for short animated films by Lisa Marie Evans in a “#onedaycollaborations” February-March, 2018
Terminal
(2018) Score for full-length feature film by Never2Late Productions, Kansas City
2h 45min | Drama, Mystery | 2018 (USA)
A merciless district attorney, sentenced to death, meets a desperate young woman on the run from the law who changes everything.
Director: Stephen Wallace Pruitt
Writers: Mary Settle Pruitt (co-writer), Stephen Wallace Pruitt (co-writer)
Stars: Joicie Appell, Turner Baietto, Sunny Blue | See full cast & crew
Postcards from the Pony Express
(2014) 20’ "We Live Here" music for video: Images by Stephen Smith and Wind Harp sounds by Ross Barrable.
White
(2011) 30” sound for video Animation by Karen Yasinsky
Muscles
(2011) 1’ sound for video Animation by Marco Raparelli
November Sycamore Leaf Video (and music)
(2006) 9’
1st Prize: Sounds Electric ’07 for Music (Dublin, Ireland)
Music licensed in film
Bone, Water, Fire (2015) a Film by Jill Sharpe
Occupy Love (2014) a Film by Velcrow Ripper
Theater and Dance
Immeasurable Heaven (2013-16)
A Collaboration between UMKC Theater and the UMKC Conservatory IMP Ensemble. Immeasurable Heaven was the final production for UMKC Theatre’s Epic Project, a three-year devised process in which the audience is immersed in the spectacular journey of one man as he is guided through storms and trials, battling the monsters of our times. This production is by Stephanie Roberts and Ensemble and directed by Stephanie Roberts. It is a collaboration with musicians from the UMKC Conservatory IMP Ensemble, which is under the direction of Dr. Paul Rudy.
The three year collaborative process began with improvisation between actors and musicians. The final production was scripted, fully designed and stages. The music, however, was improvised from the beginning, to the very last show!
Are your ears blind?
(2008) 20’ Incidental Music for Theater Work, Baltimore, MD
Water Into Light
(1995) 50’ incidental music for a play by Wesley Middleton, UT Austin
Rising Up!
(2016) 16’ Music for “Breaking the Dam” part 2, choreography by Gary Abbott, Poetry by Rob Love.
Premier: Foley Theater, Spring, 2016
Resolve
(2014) 15’ Music for “Breaking the Dam” part 1, choreography by Gary Abbott.
(2015) 8’ revised and shortened
WE!
(2011) 15’ in 3 segments for multi-media dance, Kansas City, Jane Gotch Choreographer
Premier: March, 2011
More in Time II
(2001) 14’ dancer activated computer instruments
Commissioned by Williams/Henry Dance Theater Company, Kansas City, MO.
Premier: UMKC Conservatory of Music, May 14, 2001.
More in Time
(2000) 12’ dancer activated computer instruments
written for the Williams/Henry Dance Theater Company, Kansas City, MO.
Premier: Williams/Henry Dance Theater: New Edge, New Millennium Series, GEM Theater, 18th and Vine, Kansas City, MO, May 12, 2000.
Polyglot
(1997) 12’ dance
co-created with Shannon Bradford (choreography)
Dance Suite
(1995) 17’ Four Pieces for Dance from Water into Light incidental music
Trio for Three
(1995) 16’ for Movement, Sound, and Light (an inter-media contrapuntal work)
Installations and Public Art
Refuge, Awakening Our Ancient Future (concept)
an installation of a sound mandala (multichannel) with mantra medicine cards
Inuksuk
Stone sculpture commission by the Midland Railroad Hotel, Wilson, Kansas
Still Time
(2016) Public Art Project, Merriam, Kansas
Artist: DRAW (Dan Maginn, Jessica Reed Schultz, Jesse Crupper)
Composer and Sound Artist: Paul Rudy
Fabricator: Zwei Bäume
A peace of oneness
With Jonathan Rudy. Global Mennonite Peacebuilding Conference and Festival, Conrad Grebel University College, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. June 12, 2016
XLocus (with Jeniffer Scappettone and Agency: Stephen Muller and Ersela Krippa)
(2011) installation of sound, poetry and image
American Academy in Rome, March, 2011
Found Sound (Paul Rudy, Timothy Place and Jesse Allison)
(2002) interactive children’s installation
Location: University of Göteborg Universeum, Göteborg, Sweeden, September 16-21.
Unfound Sound (Paul Rudy, Timothy Place and Jesse Allison)
(2001) interactive children’s installation
Kemper Museum of Modern Art, August.
Imagination Stations (Timothy Place, Paul Rudy)
(2000) interactive composition museum installation
Premier: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, August 21-23, 2000.
Reliquary (Scott Blasco and Paul Rudy)
(2010) Interactive installation for “Meet the Robot”
UMKC Friends of the Library, May-August, 2010
Sound Escapes
(August 8, 2008) Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
20 minutes of music with two improvisers in conjunctions with the Human/Nature: European Landscape Photography Exhibit.
Sublimated Cityscape
(March-April, 2006) 22’
Sound Installation for Sublimated City, curated by the UMKC Center for Creative Studies for the Urban Culture Project Space and Epsten Gallery, Kansas City.
Sonic Snap Shots (Paul Rudy, David Olen Baird and Paul Mullen)
(2006) Interpretive Composition Workstation for Ping Pong Diplomacy Installation of Stephen Hendee and Phoebe Washburn
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, March-May, 2006
Photography
