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Artist Profile: Paul Rudy

Paul Rudy

14865 35th St.
Perry, KS 66073

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I am a composer, performer, photographer, land artist, coach, mentor, dreamer, and life improviser. In 2012 I moved onto 70 acres in northeastern Kansas where I practice harmonizing with all relations, both physical and non-physical. In this place, sound emanates from my healing cave and out into the woods and prairie, as I listen deeply. In 2014 I began to actually see "The Universe in each breath" which began showing up in photographs, which are now being exhibited. I have been described as "the High Priest of Sound," and my music as "The Universe unfolding one sound at a time." Music that comes through me is simultaneously primordial and celestial bringing in the voices of all relations with your own thoughts and memories, and the sounds of many "places" both known and created. It opens up a horizon that you navigate on your own terms: a journey not so much of my design, but of your individual desire. My meditations without words awaken you to both the deep and hidden corners of yourself, and Source energy waiting to transform and integrate essence into cohesion, and cohesion into manifestation. My music will help you come home to yourself. As a composer, my music encompasses improvisation, film scoring, chamber and orchestral, electronic, and sound for healing. 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 (2008 commission), CMMAS, SEAMUS, Meet the Composer, the American Composer's Forum, SCI, and NMTA. I am Curators' Distinguished Professor of composition at the University of Missouri at Kansas City Conservatory, where I was awarded the Kauffman Award for Artistry in 2008. 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.