Dr. Paul Rudy

Life is a creative prayer

Despite being a Curators’ Distinguished Professor of Composition at UMKC where I’ve taught since 1998, I am a recovering academic. Life, to me, is more than thought, proof, and probabilities. I live to think, but it’s only one side of my human experience. My aural life has expanded from an early love of music when I got my first cornet, to composing and a sound healing practice where I feel and experience sound physically, mentally and spiritually. In 2012 I moved onto 70 acres in NE Kansas. On this land of woods and prairie, I harmonize with everything physical and metaphysical. I honor the energies and ancestors as I nurture feminine energies to rebalance in harmony with the masculine. I play in mind, body, and spirit, and have built land art and a labyrinth where the laws of physics feel suspended at times. In 2014 I saw "the Universe in a single breath" through a photograph I took on Halloween night.

Whether as composer, performer, sound healer, photographer, writer, speaker, art-maker, or teacher, my work plays in the obvious and the hidden while honoring everything in between in the circle of life. I have been called “the High Priest of Sound,” and my music described as “The Universe unfolding one sound at a time.” The music that comes through me opens up a horizon that you may navigate on your own terms. The journey is not so much of my design, but of your desire. It will help you come home to yourself. Like the ceremonial spaces on my land, every path is unique and no one else’s is like yours. I love helping people to more deeply experience life around them, and themselves as part of it!

Artist Statement

As a high priest of sound, I listen to subtle energies and create experiences that suggest without prescribing, invite without commanding, and lead without directing. As a kid, I loved to make things. That same kid got jerked into a horror film by the screams coming from the TV, a trauma that set me on a path towards my life’s mission to bring healing through the power of sound and resonance. In listening deeply, I harmonize inside and out, whether creating music, making sacred spaces on my 70 acres in NE Kansas, or working with clients in sound practice. In music that can “compress a lifetime into an hour,” or “create the world one sound at a time,” I do not force a narrative, but rather create a space where each listener can trek at will, pursuing the pathways of their own instinct or choice, and perhaps even bump into another self along the way. In my healing sound sessions the music I make comes from within the client! I simply reflect that sound back to them and healing happens from the inside out! In the sacred earth spaces I create, each visitor says their own prayer simply by being present. Subtle energies captured in my photographs, reveal “a beautiful cosmic place where scale and time have no meaning, and challenge us to see an entirely obvious, rarely contemplated, and alternate reality.” In this space, each of us have the potential to explore a sacred marriage between intellect, intuition, work and play, becoming the High Priest of our own kingdom..

I love to make things

250 word bio

Dr. Paul Rudy (DMA) has been called “The High Priest of Sound” and “Sage.” In addition to composing instrumental and electronic art, he practices sacred sound, sound immersion, sound healing, and leads meditations. His music and sonic art balance conservatory training with shamanic practices, subtle energies, and technology, each of which guide his intuitive performances and compositions, bridging science and spirituality. Performances happen in yoga studios, universities, and festivals, and ranges from free-dance, sound meditation, collaborative theater, group improvisation, sound design, and working with choreographers. Venues include: Rootwire Transformational Art Festival, The American Academy in Rome, The Nelson-Atkins and Kemper Museums of Art, The International Society for the Study of Subtle Energy and Energy Medicine, The Council Grove Conference, Centro Mexicano para la Música y las Artes Sonoras; dance collaborations with choreographers Gary Abbott, Sabrina Madison-Cannon and DeeAnna Hiett; and a monthly Sound Meditation for Compassion. He is a Rome Prize (2010), Guggenheim (2008), Fulbright (1997) and Wurlitzer Foundation (2007 and 2009) Fellow, and his music has won two Global Music Awards (2012, for Innovation in Sound and Mixing/Editing), the Sounds Electric ’07 (Dublin), EMS Prize (Sweden), and Citta di Udine (Prize ex aequo, Italy) competitions, to name a few. He is a Curators’ Distinguished Professor and Coordinator of Composition at the University of Missouri at Kansas City, Conservatory, where he received the Kauffman Award for Artistry (2008) and Service (2018). Six CD’s in his series “2012 Stories” are available for streaming and purchase online.

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Is there a better way to enter the Lions gate than to start the foundation of my new healing center tomorrow? Jaguar comes out of the dark and shape shifts into the lion. Today’s monthly sound meditation tapped directly into the sun. Some sounds felt like the broiling surface of that cauldron of life bringing light into all the cracks! Others were like the receiving of that potent energy force. Thanks @melissa_illuminated for pointing out how my practice will move from a cave in the basement to up on a perch for a broader view. If you are looking for a life coach, she will help you make these profound connections. Thanks @mllemegan for your example of bringing personal practice and total authenticity into the academic classroom! Stay tuned for more on that!#lionsgate indeed! On top of it all, I made vegan carrot cupcakes! WTF is happening 🤣 Join me on Sept 4 for the next monthly sound meditation. Subscribe on YouTube and Patreon to support the healing vision of Harmony Farm and join the community. #authenticpractice #lionsgate #soundmeditation #vegancarrotcake

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So unusual to be so close to a wild Turkey. They usually fly off long before I’m aware I’m even close to them. I’ve been sharing this turkey’s home since spring. I hear and see her often. I suspect it was her eggs I found broken in the pasture in front of the house. Some rascal found her nest. Poor mama is alone instead of raising a litter of young. I cannot imagine what that must be like. Every time I see her, I feel her wandering energy. I feel like she is looking for her young who have gone into the West. I am glad for her companionship and hope that she is of mine too. #loneriders

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Over the moon at having my very own prarie blazing stars @ harmon farm

Miracles fall like drops of healing rain

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Over the moon that my favorite prarie plants that I muttered last summer are thriving and getting ready to flower. 1) cardinal flower 2) bee balm 3) rattle snake master 4) blazing star ( one of my all time favs!) And a native volunteer 5) prairie milkweed I have know these plants for decades. To have them hear gives me more pleasure than I can speak! #natives #plants #flowers #blazingstar #nurturing