Paul Rudy

Paul Rudy, also known as "The High Priest of Sound" and "Sage", is an American musician, sound artist, composer of instrumental and electronic art, and a practitioner of sacred sound, sound immersion, and sound healing. He received a Master’s degree in Composition from the The University of Colorado in 1992, followed by a DMA degree in Composition from the University Of Texas, Austin in 1997 with Dan Welcher and Russell Pinkston as co-supervisors. Paul Rudy is a Curators’ Distinguished Professor and Coordinator of Composition at the University of Missouri at Kansas City, Conservatory of Music and Dance, where he also serves as Chair of the Board at the Barr Institute for Contemporary American Music Studies.

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 ranges from free-dance, sound meditation, collaborative theater, group improvisation, and working with choreographers, and few of the recent 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, and University Of Texas, Austin.

Rudy is a Prix de Rome (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, as well as UMKC Kauffman Award for Artistry (2008).

On the Images
Last photo, left to right: Takayuki Rai, Paul Rudy, Simon Emmerson, Barry Truax, and Wayne Siegel at Musica Viva, 2003, Coimbra, Portugal