Dr. Paul Rudy
In 2012 I moved onto the land in northeast Kansas. On these 70 acres of woods and prairie, I spend time and energy harmonizing with the physical and non-physical. I have built three ceremonial spaces to honor the ancestors and play in the energies: one for the feminine, another for the masculine and a third for both. I have learned to balance mind, body, and spirit in this playground, and recently built a labyrinth where the non-physical becomes palpable. In 2014 the Spirits of the land, the Star Nations, and the “universe of a single breath” began showing themselves to me in photographs. As a composer, performer, photographer, writer, or teacher, my work seeks to commune with the essence of whatever I encounter and explore. The land has taught me the circle of life, and that oscillation becomes the motion of creativity in many mediums. I have been described as “the High Priest of Sound,” and my music as “The Universe unfolding one sound at a time.” The music that comes through me brings into dialog the voices of Mother Earth and all relations. It invites your own thoughts and memories of places that seem familiar. It opens up a horizon that you may choose to navigate on your own terms. It can take you on a journey, not so much of my design, but of your own desire. When you allow it in, it will awaken you to both the deep and hidden corners of yourself, and the light and love waiting to transform and integrate those spaces. It is designed to help you come home to yourself.
My practice moves broadly from free improvisation and film scoring, chamber and orchestral music, to sonic alchemy and healing. I facilitate improvisation, sound healing and meditation, and playing with music and sound in all the modes though which we receive it. I am a Rome Prize (2010), Guggenheim (2008), Fulbright (1997) and Wurlitzer Foundation (2007 and 2009) Fellow, and my music has won Global Music Awards (2012 for Innovation in Sound and Mixing/Editing), the Sounds Electric ’07 Competition (Dublin), EMS Prize (Sweden), Citta di Udine (Prize ex aequo, Italy), and has received recognition and commissions from IMEB, Bourges, France (2008 commission), CMMAS (Mexico), SEAMUS, Meet the Composer, the American Composer’s Forum, SCI, and NMTA. I am Curators’ Professor of composition at the University of Missouri at Kansas City Conservatory. In 1994 I completed the Colorado Grand Slam after climbing all 54 of Colorado's 14,000 ft peaks. I have 6 CD’s which are available at CDBaby and iTunes.
Dr. Paul Rudy, Composer, can be reached through the following links:
Farming Harmony Blog
facebook.com/PaulRudySoundPractitioner
www.paulrudy.com
www.soundcloud.com/rudyp
Aquarian Stories CDs Available at CDBaby
Workshop #1: A Journey in Sound!
Come Take a Journey Immersed in Sound!!
My music is made up of sounds from around the globe. The sounds I use traverse a distance from recognized and obvious, to eclipsed and highly altered and transformed. They are engaged for their beauty as well as their emotional content, and especially for a sonic residue that remains especially in digital capture. I place them in a context that maximizes mental, spatial, temporal, emotional, physical, and spiritual resonance. Transformation of sounds encourages an excursion into the hinterlands of each individual memory and imagination that chooses to partake. There is no attempt to fuse a narrative, but rather to create a landscape where you can trek at will, and pursue the pathways of your own instinct; re-writing your story, and perhaps even bumping into another yourself along the way.
My music is a creation story: not the ones gone by, but rather the one of our bright present, and our potent future. It listens to intuitive intelligence beyond what is known, and sings from ancient cosmology. It is music about the coming-of-age of our planet, and a growing consciousness that resonates inward to each individual at whatever stage along their path of enlightenment. It reverberates outward towards our universe where all entangles, bathed in resonant energy and nourished by harmonic convergence.
Workshop #2: Why Is Sound So Powerful?
We have all been moved physically and emotionally by music and sound, in profound ways. We involuntarily jump at loud noses and tap our foot to music. It moves us without us even thinking about it.
Where does this power come from? How does it work?
This presentation will explore how sound acts ON us and WITHIN us and how we can use its power for our own self-healing and well-being.
My practice moves broadly from free improvisation and film scoring, chamber and orchestral music, to sonic alchemy and healing. I facilitate improvisation, sound healing and meditation, and playing with music and sound in all the modes though which we receive it. I am a Rome Prize (2010), Guggenheim (2008), Fulbright (1997) and Wurlitzer Foundation (2007 and 2009) Fellow, and my music has won Global Music Awards (2012 for Innovation in Sound and Mixing/Editing), the Sounds Electric ’07 Competition (Dublin), EMS Prize (Sweden), Citta di Udine (Prize ex aequo, Italy), and has received recognition and commissions from IMEB, Bourges, France (2008 commission), CMMAS (Mexico), SEAMUS, Meet the Composer, the American Composer’s Forum, SCI, and NMTA. I am Curators’ Professor of composition at the University of Missouri at Kansas City Conservatory. In 1994 I completed the Colorado Grand Slam after climbing all 54 of Colorado's 14,000 ft peaks. I have 6 CD’s which are available at CDBaby and iTunes.
Dr. Paul Rudy, Composer, can be reached through the following links:
Farming Harmony Blog
facebook.com/PaulRudySoundPractitioner
www.paulrudy.com
www.soundcloud.com/rudyp
Aquarian Stories CDs Available at CDBaby
Workshop #1: A Journey in Sound!
Come Take a Journey Immersed in Sound!!
My music is made up of sounds from around the globe. The sounds I use traverse a distance from recognized and obvious, to eclipsed and highly altered and transformed. They are engaged for their beauty as well as their emotional content, and especially for a sonic residue that remains especially in digital capture. I place them in a context that maximizes mental, spatial, temporal, emotional, physical, and spiritual resonance. Transformation of sounds encourages an excursion into the hinterlands of each individual memory and imagination that chooses to partake. There is no attempt to fuse a narrative, but rather to create a landscape where you can trek at will, and pursue the pathways of your own instinct; re-writing your story, and perhaps even bumping into another yourself along the way.
My music is a creation story: not the ones gone by, but rather the one of our bright present, and our potent future. It listens to intuitive intelligence beyond what is known, and sings from ancient cosmology. It is music about the coming-of-age of our planet, and a growing consciousness that resonates inward to each individual at whatever stage along their path of enlightenment. It reverberates outward towards our universe where all entangles, bathed in resonant energy and nourished by harmonic convergence.
Workshop #2: Why Is Sound So Powerful?
We have all been moved physically and emotionally by music and sound, in profound ways. We involuntarily jump at loud noses and tap our foot to music. It moves us without us even thinking about it.
Where does this power come from? How does it work?
This presentation will explore how sound acts ON us and WITHIN us and how we can use its power for our own self-healing and well-being.
