Composer and Researcher Paul Rudy

UMKC Conservatory
Curators’ Distinguished Professor

Image: Death’s thin melody (choreography by Sabrina Madison-Cannon)

"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

Order a personal mantras and meditation composed just for you! It is custom designed for whatever you face on your growth path. Subscribe to my YouTube channel to feel some of them. When you are ready, answer some questions here, and then let’s talk! They range from a minute or two, to full musical massages an hour long depending on your budget.

"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!

Recordings

  • 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

  • "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.

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