Composer and Researcher Paul Rudy
UMKC Conservatory
Curators’ Distinguished Professor & Coordinator of Integrated Arts Initiatives
Image: Death’s thin melody (choreography by Sabrina Madison-Cannon)
Composing for me is very personal. There is always something at the foundation of each piece that touches me deeply in my heart and mind. In this case, it was my Father. I was composing this at the time of his passing. Like Horace Silver’s Song for my Father (one of my favorite jazz songs), I realized this was my homage to my Father. He was creative with wood, and he passed that need to make things on to me.
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"I have experienced a lot of music, but I have no idea what your music just did for me. It was a wonderful experience!" Herb Blumenthal
Musical Mantras and Meditations
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An example of musical mantra: I am here on purpos.
"What a sound healing from Paul Rudy feels like. Wings flying, water flowing, gongs gonging, major visuals, throat chanting. I got up and felt like I just received a massage or Reiki. I highly suggest this to everyone." Jessica Crockett, Energy Practitioner and Massage
“Dear Paul: Thank you for your beautiful piece i am another yourself. We have felt your heart, your sense, your thought, and your qi when the music unfolds. The landscape is so natural, the atmosphere is so serene and the environment is so peaceful that we are led to the musical realm that you created for us. The overall structure is well planned and the sound material is well developed. Congratulations for completing such a substantial work. Thank you for this sincere gift, we are deeply touched.” ~Composers Chen Yi and Zhou Long
Compositions
Composing in the Wilderness
In June, 2023 I did two trips in Alaska with Composing in the Wilderness. It was wonderful, and will result in a Wind Ensemble piece premiering in 2024. After our Lake Clark Adventure, I wrote the sound meditation and reflection below with two of my favorite sounds from the trip! Enjoy!
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Instrumental
Large ensemble, chamber, and voice.
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Electroacoustic
Electroacoustic works with or without instruments.
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Collaborations
Multi-media works for film, dance, and video.
Recordings
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Solo CD's
"I love your CD--very powerful--close your eyes and it is as if the the Universe were being created one sound at a time." GRETCHEN KRIVOSHIA
"It's like a lifetime compressed into an hour." MICHAEL KNIGHT
"Paul makes incredibly beautiful music from musical tones and environmental sounds of widely varying recgonizability." KYLE GANN
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"I am another yourself"
2012 Stories CD No. 1
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"Road to the sky"
2012 Stories CD No. 2
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"Circle of life"
2012 Stories CD No. 3
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"Place where the sky is born"
2012 Stories Cd No. 4
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"there is no form without spirit"
2012 Stories CD No. 5
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"Solar Winds"
2012 Stories CD No. 6
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2012 Stories
“There were times when the whole space was impregnated with a soaring, upsweep of sounds. And other times when I felt like I was six years old, in bed, listening to the bugs outside my window. I realize I don't hear that anymore. I found it very moving--sad and entrancing-- too.” APRIL WATSON, ASSOCIATE CURATOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY, NELSON-ATKINS MUSEUM OF ART
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Awaken!
For JoeDee Davis
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Thema: Omaggio
Winner, EMS Prize 2002
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Jacked!
Written for Jack Sutte
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Thema: Omaggio
Music of SEAMUS 2005
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Vastly Shrinking Space
Madeleine Shapiro, Cello
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Sun's soliloquy (from Sian ka'an)
Music of Electronic Music Midwest
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Vastly Shrinking Space
Iracema Andrada, Cello
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and every island and mountain were moved from their place
Jack Sutte, trumpet
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Degrees of Separation: Grandchild of Tree
Nathan Davis, Cactus
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Parallax 2: Apparitions
Craig Hultgren, cello
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Carnivorous Plants (from In lake'ch)
Wet sounds underwater gallery.
