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Doctor of Musical Arts, Composition
(1997)
The University of Texas at Austin
Russell Pinkston and Dan Welcher,
Co-Supervisors
Master of Music, Composition
(1992)
The University of Colorado, Boulder
Bachelor of Arts, Trumpet (1984)
Bethel College (N. Newton, KS)
Current Positions and Teaching
Experience
- Cooridnator of Composition
Studies, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Conservatory of
Music
- Associate
Professor of Composition, University of Missouri-Kansas City,
Conservatory of Music: Graduate and Undergraduate Class
and Private Composition; Techniques of Electronic Music; Advanced
Electronic Music Composition; Computer Programming for Musicians
(MAX/MSP); and Aesthetics and Analysis of Electroacoustic Music;
Instrumentation and Orchestration; directed studies and special topics
for upper division and graduate students; supervising recitals,
thesis/dissertation directing and advising.
- Director, Intermedia
Music Production and Computer Technology Center (iMPACT),
University of Missouri at Kansas City: responsibilities include
curriculum development and teaching, managing funding,
hardware/software purchasing, installation, and maintenance of three
Macintosh based studios.
- Board of Directors: NewEar Ensemble, Kansas City,
Missouri (2000 to 2006)
1999-2005
- Assistant Professor of Composition, University of
Missouri-Kansas City, Conservatory of Music.
1995-2001
- Faculty Composition Technologist, Aspen Music Festival
and School: studio setup and maintenance; private and class
electroacoustic music instruction; coordination and recording of
student concerts and orchestral readings; and synthesizer programming
for Aspen Music Festival Orchestras.
- Founder and Director: AMPS (Amplified Music
Performance Series): Aspen Music Festival. Organizing and
producing two concerts each summer of classic and contemporary
electroacoustic works in a variety of genres, performed on a ten
speaker diffusion system.
- Visiting Assistant Professor of Composition, University
of Missouri-Kansas City, Conservatory of Music: Class and Private
Composition, sophomore through graduate level; Techniques
of Electronic Music I: and Advanced Electronic Music Composition;
directed studies and special topics for upper division and graduate
students; Orchestration; dissertation committee.
- Tutor, New Zealand Young Composer's Workshop,
Martinborough, New Zealand.
- Teaching Assistant and Assistant Instructor, The
University of Texas at Austin
- Assistant Instructor: Musicianship II
(Freshman theory)
- Teaching Assistant: Ear-training and Sight-Singing
Lab (Freshman)
- Teaching Assistant, The University of Colorado,
Boulder
- Twenty-first Century Music: upper division
humanities course for non-majors focusing on contemporary music and
speculation of future directions of music
- Basic Music Theory (Rudiments): prepared
syllabus and course schedule as well as planned and taught all aspects
of the course.
- Theory and Ear-training Lab 2: third
semester aural skills for Sophomores focusing on chromatic harmony
- Theory and Ear-training Lab 1: first and
second semester aural skills for Freshman
- Basic Music Theory Aural Skill Lab:
Ear-training and Sight Singing for music majors in the Basic Music
Theory Rudiments course
- Electronic Music Laboratory: Taught weekly
orientation sessions for students not familiar with computer
technology; topics included sequencing, notation, and
computer-assisted learning software (aural skills); and lab maintenance
- Lecturer, Bethel College, North Newton, KS
- Instructed jazz improvisation as sabbatical
replacement; directed the jazz ensemble, and pep band
Staff Instructor: Musical Offerings Music Studio, North
Newton, KS: instructed elementary through high school trumpet and
Trombone students
Petrella Duo, Kansas City, April, 2008.
Larger than home, wind ensemble, Commissioned by Steven Davis and the
UMKC Wind Symphony. Premier, Kansas City, February 8, 2007.
Madeleine Shapiro and newEar: Vastly Shrinking Space (cello and
electroacoustic sounds). Premier, Kansas City, February 3, 2007.
8th Blackbird for the 3rd Practice Festival: For whom... Premier, November,
2005, University of Richmond.
American Composer’s Forum, Jerome Composer Commissioning Program: Circus,
Entertainment in 9 movements for flute and piano (Elizabeth McNutt and
Shannon Wettstein): September, 2003.
UMKC Center for Creative Studies: Sublimated
City, collaborative multi-media project, March-May, 2006.
Kemper Museum of Contemporary
Art, Sonic Snapshots
installation for Ping Pong Diplomacy: the art of Stephen Hendee
and Phoebe Washburn, March-May, 2006.
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Fisherman’s Last Supper
and Bach for Breakfast (text by Marsden Hartley), (7’) for
soprano and piano.
New York New Music and Dance Ensemble, Pods: premiered April 28,
2003.
A stop along the way… 30 minute movie with soundtrack
commissioned for the Rocky Mountain Mennonite Camp 50th anniversary
celebration, July 27, 2002.
Scrum for vert mixed quartet for newEar ensemble,
Mark Lowrey, President: (organ, saxophone, bass clarinet,
accordion).
Premier: Kansas City, Nov. 2002.
Wood, Wind, Water, Earth for erhu, dizi, yangqin and
virtual percussion, Meet the Composer Commissioning USA
Program, premier performance: Music From China Premier Works XI, Merkin
Hall, New York,
November 17, 2001.
Unnatural Selection for bass clarinet and computer, newEar
ensemble, premier performance: Seeing Ear Concert, Kansas City, MO,
November 2, 2001.
"Fantasie" for erhu and recorded virtual ensembles: Music
From China, Wang Guowei, erhu, Nov. 2000.
"Out of crooked timber…" commissioned by Joan Sommers
for the UMKC Conservatory of Music Accordion Orchestra, May, 2000.
Church Keys for piano and tape Commissioned by the Missouri
Music Teachers Association for the 1999 Composer of the Year
competition
Rhapsody for Two Douglas Beilman and Joanna
Hood
commission for the 1999 New Zealand Festival of Chamber Music, Nelson,
New
Zealand.
Portrait: North and South Maroon Northeast State
University Wind Ensemble, Robert Carnochan conductor, Talequah
Oklahoma.
Silver Express Commissioned by Terry Sawchuk for solo
trumpet and big band
Guest Residencies
2007
3 month
residency for
development leave at the Helene
Wurlitzer Foundation in Taos, New Mexico, Jan-April, 2007.
Guest
Composer, Cornell University and
Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York, April
9-11
- "Sound in Film, Implications for Composing:" composer's
forum, Ithaca College
- "Adventures in composing:" composition seminar,
Cornell University
- Choreographed performance of Degrees
of Separation "Grandchild of Tree"
Guest Composer/Lecturer,
DeMontfort University, Leicester England, April 23-28, 2007
4 Lectures:
• Electroacoustics in Film Sound:
Spectromorphology, lies and videotape…”
• Sex, lies and audiotape: Noise,
Dissonance and the Twentieth-Century Spiritual Crisis in Chion’s
Requiem (co-author Sarah Jacobs)
• Smoke and Mirrors: Character and
Plot through Sonification in Film
• Adventures in composing:
Structure, Material and Unity in My Works
Curated Concert: “Art and Life of Re[In]surrection”
Works by Chion, Rudy, Burns, Broening and Leider
Guest Composer,
Manchester University, England, May 20-21, 2007.
• Lecture: “Spirituality and
Composing”
• 4 private electroacoustic
composition tutorials
Guest Composer,
University of Aveiro, Portugal, May 24-29
• Concert: In lake’ch (complete)
• Guest lecture, “Hidden Messages
in Film Sound: Source Lies and Videotape: Black Hawk Down case study”
• Composition masterclass
Guest Composer,
MusicAcoustica, Central Conservatory of Music, Beijing, China, October
22-29, 2007
- 2 Perfomances: Vastly Shrinking Space and Degrees of
Separation
- 3 Lectures:“Three Requiems and a Dream: The fourth
dimension of sound in film," "Sonic Composition in Black Hawk Down,"
and “Cinematic Synchresis in Electroacoustic Music,” October 27, 2007
2006
Featured Guest Composer, Ball
State University Festival 36: New Music 2006
- Composers forum lecture “Follow your spleen dream!”
- Four works featured in concert: November Sycamore Leaf, Love Song, Church Keys, and Degrees of Separation
Guest Composer, University of Colorado at Boulder, January
26-29, 2004:
- Graduate Composition Seminar
- Undergraduate Composition Seminar
- Private Composition Lessons
2003
Guest Residency, Lewis University: "Composer Speaks
Series", November 20-21, 2003
- "Theological Tonality in Church Keys" guest lecture
- "Anthropological Impulses in the Creative Process or,
Unscrambling Scrambled Eggs" guest lecture
- Music Bytes Concert
- Composition Masterclass
Composer in Residence, New York University New Music
Ensemble, Esther Lamneck, Artistic Director: April 24-28, 2003
Mid-Kansas Composition Residency (Feb. 10-12, 2003)
- Anthropological Impulses in the Creative Process: I’ll have
my eggs unscrambled please! Convocation Address; Theological Tonality
in Church Keys, Music Theory Lecture; Music as Multi-Media, Music
History Class; Bethel College, N. Newton, Kansas, Feb. 10.
- Presentation on my compositions, and composition
masterclass, Bethel College, N. Newton, Kansas, Feb. 10.
- Guest presentations for Music Theory Class and Wind and
Symphonic Band Class at Newton High School, Newton, Kansas, Feb. 10.
- Contrapuntal Currents in Contemporary Music: Abstractions
of Sound and Image, Convocation Address, Emporia State University Dept.
of Music, Feb. 11.
- Composition Masterclass, Emporia State University, Feb. 11.
- Guest speaker, Introduction to Composition, Wichita State
University, Feb. 12.
- Alternative Notation, Composition presentation and
Masterclass, Bethel College, March 17, 2003.
Concert Curation
Synthese 2007, 37th International
Festival of Electroacoustic Music, Bourges, France, Music From SEAMUS,
curated concert at June 5, 2007. Works by Bolte, Furman, Kim,
Volness, McGarity and Rudy.
Music From the Unites States,
curated concert, teatr Weimar, Malmö,
Sweden, May 16, 2007. Works by Applebaum, Choy, Geers, Rudy,
Volness
and Wyatt.
Music From SEAMUS, Fylkingen, curated concert, Stockholm Sweden, May
11, 2007. Works by Burns, Cheng, Furman, Kim, Ariza, Pangilly,
Rudy
and Volness.
“Ripples, templations and the wilderness of...” curated concert,
University of Hull, Scarborough, England, May 7, 2007. Works by
Applebaum, Lopez, McIntire, Wyatt, Rudy and MacKay.
“Over/Under” curated concert, Reid Concert Hall, Edinburgh, May 5,
2007. Works by: Rudy, Lopez, Volness, Choi, Minsburg, Kim, Schumacher
and Bolte.
“Art and Life of Re[in]surrection,” Music Technology and Innovation
Seminar Curated Concert, April 25, 2007. Works by Chion, Rudy, Leider,
Burns and Broening.
SEAMUS concert at the International Computer Music Conference, November
9, 2006.
Swedish Electroacoustic Music Society (SEAM) Concert Series: Curated a
concert of Electroacoustic Music from the United States, September 14,
2006.
Artsounds Concert: Baked! Co-curated with Brett Reif
(KCAI). A one hour concert of sonic and visual art at Epperson
Auditorium, Kansas City Art Institute, September 12, 2006.
SEAMUS/ICMC Collaborative Concert: curated a concert of SEAMUS Member
works for the International Computer Music Conference, Tulane
University, New Orleans, November, 2006.
Ai-maako, 50th Anniversary Celebration of the Chilean Electroacoustic
Music Conference (CECh): Curated a concert of electroacoustic works by
UMKC faculty and students, October, 20, 2006, Santiago, Chile.
Co-director and host of Electronic Music Midwest Festival, Kansas City,
hosted at UMKC Conservatory, Oct. 30-Nov. 1, 2003, in partnership with
Kansas City, Kansas, Community College and Lewis University (Joliet,
IL).
Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival: Works from the MPACT Center,
UMKC Conservatory of Music, April 7, 2000.
Digital Bugs: Concert of Student Works from the MPACT Center, UMKC
Conservatory of Music, 1999 to present.
Amplified Music Performance
Series: Electroacoustic Works at the Aspen Music Festival, 1995 to 2000
(6 concerts total).
Papers, Guest Lectures, and
Presentations
2007
Pre-concert talk, newEar ensemble,
Unity Temple, Kansas City, Feb. 3, 2007.
Guest lecture, University of Colorado,
Composition Seminar, February
14, 2007.
"Electroacoustics in Film: Sound in Image or Spectromorphology, Lies
and Videotape." Paper presentation at the Society of Electroacoustic
Music in the United States,
Aimes, Iowa, March 8, 2007.
Ithaca
College, Composition Seminar,
“Cinematic Sound: implications for composition” guest lecture,
April 10, 2007.
Cornell University
Composition
Seminar,
“Adventures in Composing” guest lecture, April 11, 2007.
University of Huddersfield,
UK, invited lecture on my music, April
24,
2007.
Trinity College of Music,
London, England, invited lecture,
“Sonic
Composition in Black Hawk Down, and Sound’s Hidden Messages” (tied to
visual implications in my recent music), May 1, 2007.
London College of Music,
Themes Valley University, invited
lecture on "Electroacoustics in Film: Spectromorphology, lies and
videotape…,” May 2,
2007.
University of Aberdeen,
Scotland, invited lecture on “Electroacoustics
in
Black Hawk Down: Sounds Hidden Messages,” May 4, 2007.
University of Hull at Scarborough,
England, invited lecture on
“Spectromorphology, lies and videotape… Electroacoustics in Film
with Implications for Composition, May 7, 2007."
City University, London,
invited lecture on “Spectromorphology, Lies
and Audiotape-Cinematic Sound with Implications for Composition,” May
10, 2007.
Royal Academy of Music,
Århus, Denmark, "Inter-diegetic Sound in Film: Sound in Black
Hawk Down and Compositional Implications,” Guest Lecture, May 14,
2007.
Musikhögskolan, Mälmo,
Sweden, guest lecture, “Electroacoustic Music in the
United States, May 15, 2007
University of Hertfordshire
Mayfest, Hertordshire, England, guest lecture, “Communicating
through sound: ears see and eyes hear,” May 18, 2007.
2006
The Power of Music: UMKC
Innovation Lecture Series with Dr. Sheri Robb, Kaufmann Center,
February 21, 2006.
“Follow your spleen
dream”, Ball State University Festival 36,
composers forum lecture: New Music 2006.
“What do Acousmatic Music, Stomp and Pink Floyd Have in
Common?” Guest Lecture, Louisiana State University, Center for
Computation and Technology, Baton Rouge, LA, March 20, 2006.
2005
"Sound Shaping and Timbral Justification
in the 'Moral Realist Combat Film' Black Hawk Down" with Phillipa
Gates, presentation at the Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology
(CIM05) Montréal (Québec) Canada, 10-12/03/2005.
" Interpolating Electroacoustic Sounds in an Acoustic Context:
Analyzing Timbre, Time and Pitch in Íris by João Pedro
Oliveira" paper at the Society of Electroacoustic Music in the US,
Muncie, Indiana, April 16, 2005.
“Spectromorphology Hits Hollywood: Morphology, Objectification and
Moral Messages in the Sound Design of the Film Black Hawk Down” at
Sonoimágenes 2005, Festival Internacional Acusmático y
Multimedial, August 25, 2005, Buenos Aires, Argentina
“Analysis of Morphology in the Sound Design of the film “Black Hawk
Down” guest lecture at Belgrano University, August 29, 2005, Buenos
Aires, Argentina.
“Black Hawk Down: Total Sound-Morphology and Objectification in Film
Composition” paper presentation at Visiones Sonores, International
Festival of Music and New Technology. Centro Cultural Universitario,
Mexico City, September 24, 2005.
“Timbral Common Parctice” paper presentation at Electronic Music
Midwest, Kansas City, Kansas Community College, October 22, 2005.
Guest lecture on current electroacoustic music techniques: Kansas City
Art Institute, 20th Century Music Class, IMPACT Center, October 31,
2005.
2004
Spectromorphology Hits Hollywood: Sound Objectification in Black Hawk
Down, paper presentation, International Computer Music Conference,
Miami, FL. Nov. 5th, 2004.
"Morphological Imprints, Development, and Structure of a Helicopter
Sound Object Theme in the Hollywood Film Black Hawk Down-Is there the
beginnings of a timbral common practice?" 1 hour lecture/demonstration,
International Computer Music Conference, Miami, Florida, Nov. 6, 2004.
also presented at Electronic Music Midwest, Lewis University, Sept. 18,
2004.
and Sonic Arts Conference, Leicester, England, June 14, 2004.
"Peace through balance: a musical metaphor of the human struggle
between violent aggression and passionate humility." One hour
lecture/demonstration at "Teaching Peace: Nonviolence and the Liberal
Arts Curriculum" , Bluffton College Pathways to Mission and Vocation
Program, May 28, 2004.
Intersections Between Sight and Sound: hearing the art of Denzel Hurley
(with Kristy Peterson), Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, February 13,
2004 (lunch lecture).
2003
"Total Sound in Film: Black Hawk
Down, a case study" 45 minute
lecture/demonstration at the 2nd Annual Hawaii International Conference
of Arts and Humanities, Honolulu, Hawaii, January 9, 2003.
newEar Ensemble Pre-concert talk with Ingrid Stölzel, Lawrence Art
Center and St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, January 23 and 25, 2003.
"Creativity, from Inspiration to Sources in making a Work of Art,
or: I just had a great idea! I wonder where that came from?"
Inaugural Lecture-UMKC Center for Creative Studies Lecture Series,
Kansas City, Oct. 29, 2003, Linda Hall Library:
2002
Interactive Music and Technology
Workshop with
Trevor
Wishart, Chalmers Technical University, Goteborg, Sweden, September
23/24: 2
intensive days of guest lectures, panel discussions, sound workshops
and critiques.
"Spectro-morphological
Diatonicism: Unlocking Style
and
Tonality in the Works of Denis Smalley Through Aural Analysis," One
Hour Curated Presentation at the Society of Electroacoustic Music in
the US (SEAMUS), University of Iowa, April 6, 2002.
Thema: Omaggio presentation,
City University
Post-Graduate Electroacoustic Music Seminar, London, England: May 17,
2002.
State of the Art Technology
guest lecture for
Music
Theory Four, William Jewel College, Phil Posey, Instructor, April 15,
2002.
"The Language of Electroacoustic
Music: Current
Approaches
to Analysis and Composition," panel member Russell Pinkston,
chair.
Society of Electroacoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS) National
Conference, University of Iowa, April 4, 2002.
Masterclass, Electronic Music
II, University of
Iowa,
Experimental Music Studios, April 3, 2002.
"Composition-Practical and
Impractical Approaches"
with
James Mobberley: In-service-Shawnee Mission School District, Shawnee
Mission, Kansas, March 25, 2002.
2001
Electroacoustic Works guest
lecture/demonstration, New
York University New Music and Dance Ensemble, Esther Lamneck, dir. Nov.
15, 2001.
Seeing Ear, pre-concert talk,
newEar Ensemble,
St.
Mary’s Episcopal Church, Kansas City, MO, November 2, 2001.
Separation Anxiety: Why Pluck a
Cactus in Public?
Lecture/demo at the Also Sprach DJ Zarathustra Festival hosted by the
Northwest Electroacoustic Music Organization, October 6, 2001, Portland
Oregon.
Separation Anxiety, Metaphoric
Transmutations from a
Paradoxical Biological Instrument or: What is a cactus doing in our
concert hall?
Aspen Composers Conference, Aspen Institute, Aspen, Colorado, August
13,
2001:
"Vision, Blurred Vision"
paper presented at Music
Without Walls, Music Without Instruments Conference, De Montfort
University,
Leicester, England, June 21, 2001.
Harnessing Nato Interpreting
Physical Gesture in
Real-Time
for the Control of Sound, Paul Rudy and Timothy Place authors:
paper
presented at the Society of Electroacoustic Music in the United States
National Conference, Baton Rouge,LA, March 3, 2001.
Sacred Space, Paul
Rudy, Mark Applebaum,
and
Ingrid Stolzel, pre-concert talk, newEar Ensemble, Concert, St. Mary’s
Episcopal Church, Kansas City, January 27, 2001.
2000
Diverse Musical Approaches:
Homage to the Past While
Looking
to the Future. Guest Lecture to Composition Seminar at Hanyang
University School of Music, Seoul, South Korea: November 8, 2000.
Out of the Lattice and Into the
Continuum: Current
Electroacoustic Music Trends in the United States. Guest
Lecture to Electronic Music Class, Yeonsei University, Seoul, South
Korea: November 8, 2000.
Interactive Electroacoustic Works
from the MPACT
Center at
the University of Missouri, Kansas City. Guest Lecture, Kimpo
College, Department of Music, Kimpo, South Korea, November 6, 2000.
Thinking Outside Traditional
Pitch/Rhythm Structures:
Developing Timbre, Frequency, and Time On a Continuum. Guest
Lecture, Ewha
Women’s University, Composition Seminar, Seoul, South Korea: November
2, 2000.
Informal Discussion of Electroacoustic
Works, and
Building
a
Career as a Young Composer: Susan and Ford Schuman Center for
Compositions Studies, Aspen Music School, August 17, 2000.
What a Composer Thinks: an
Informal Discussion of the
Psychology Behind Church Keys, for Piano and Tape. Guest
speaker at the UMKC Conservatory of Music Trustees Meeting, May 10,
2000.
Composition masterclass panel
member: Imagine
2000,
University of Memphis, Feb. 26, 2000.
Composition and Technology Panelist:
UMKC Conservatory
Careers
Night, Jan. 24th, 2000.
Expanding Sound Worlds:
Psychology and Metaphors in
Degrees
of Separation "Grandchild of Tree." Guest Lecture Theory II, UMKC
Conservatory, February 28, March 1, and 3.
Key-related Motive Structures in
Church Keys for
Piano and
Tape.
Guest Lecture Theory II, UMKC Conservatory, February 14,16, and 18.
1999
Guest presenter, 20th Century Music
at Aspen, Aspen
Music
School, August 7, 1999.
Cross Cultural Pollination in
Contemporary New
Zealand
Music: Compositional Approaches from the Nuclear Free Zone.
Paper
read at the Rocky Mountain Chapter of the College Music Society
Conference '99: Boulder, CO, March 19, 1999.
Multi-Cultural Influences in
Contemporary Music
Composition,
Panel Member, Society of Composers, Inc. Region VII Conference,
Honolulu, Hawaii, March 13, 1999.
Compositional Instincts from
Nature: Alternatives to
the
Traditional Phallus in Musical Structure, guest lecture for
"Women in Music Class," University of Utah, March 25, 1999.
Paul Rudy in discussion of his
works, Aspen Music
School
20th Century Music at Aspen, August 7, 1999.
Theater for the Ear, guest
lecture, Baptist Bible
College, September 21, 1999.
Careers in Composition,
guest lecture for
Career
Class, Oberlin College Conservatory, October 11, 1999.
Junior Senior Electronic
Composition Seminar
presentation,
TIMARA, Oberlin College Conservatory, October 12, 1999.
1998
State of the Art Technology and
Artistic Expression:
guest lecture, Introduction to Music Technology, Bethel College,
October 29, 1998.
From ABC to Do-Re-Mi,
co-host, Conservatory Kids
Club,
University of Missouri, Kansas City, Conservatory of Music, October 17,
1998.
Compositional Trends Postmodern
Vegetable Soup: guest
lecture, Composition 3, Department of Music, Waikato University,
Hamilton, New Zealand, May 28, 1998.
Compositional Processes, an
illustration: guest
lecture,
Composition 1, Department of Music, Waikato University, Hamilton, New
Zealand,
May 28, 1998.
Personal Challenges in Composing
for Tape and Tape
and
Instruments:
guest lecture, Composers' Workshop, Canterbury School of Music,
Christchurch, New Zealand, May 25, 1998.
My Compositional Journey:
Guest Lecture,
Composers'
Workshop, School of Music, Victoria University, Wellington, New
Zealand, April
30, 1998.
Composing for Instruments and Tape:
Guest
Lecture,
First
Year Electronic Music Course, School of Music, Victoria University,
Wellington, New Zealand, April 27, 1998.
Parallax 2 and String Quartet No.
1/III, tutor
presentation, New Zealand Young Composer's Workshop, Martinborough, New
Zealand, April 11, 1998.
1997
Electroacoustic Aesthetic
Directions in the United
States
guest lecture, Canterbury School of Music, Christ church, New Zealand,
October 17, 1997.
Aspects of My
Electroacoustic Music guest
lecture
for Graduate Electronic Music Seminar, School of Music, Victoria
University, Wellington, New Zealand, September 28, 1997.
Electroacoustic Music from the
University of Texas,
Electronic Music Seminar, School of Music, Victoria University,
Wellington, New
Zealand, September 25, 1997.
Polyglot and Postmodern Synthesis:
Composers'
Workshop,
University of Hawaii, Honolulu, September 9, 1997.
Band in a Box: Interactive
Computer Music for
Children
Musical
Discoveries Outreach at the Aspen Music Festival. Aspen Youth Center,
August 6, 1997.
Techniques of Contemporary
Electroacoustic Sound
Diffusion
Aspen
Music Festival Seminar, Paepke Auditorium, August 4, 1997.
Aspects of Music Technology
Lecture demonstration
with
Michael Czajkowski for 20th Century Music at Aspen, Aspen Music School,
August 2, 1997.
1996
Citlaltepetl and Trio for Three
Associate Artist
presentation: Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, Florida
Buchla and the Beast: from
electronique to the new
musique
concrete. Lecture presented with Michael Czajkowski for 20th
Century Music at
Aspen, Aspen Music School
1992
music, images, still and moving..... A multimedia
presentation including "Colorado, A Hiker's Perspective" in
collaboration with John Drumheller, Robert Schaller, and Gregory T.S.
Walker at the Sibel Wolle Arts Center, University of Colorado, Boulder.
Recordings and Publications
Recordings:
Thema: Omaggio: SEAMUS Vol. 14, Spring,
2005.
Thema Omaggio:
"Winner
Takes All" Stockholm Electronic Arts Award and emsPrize Winners
1995-2004, Caprice Records, Stockholm Sweden, 2005.
Thema: Omaggio: ICMC Proceedings, Miami, Florida,
Sept.
2004.
Fantasie: International Computer Music Conference
CD
release, Singapore, October, 2003.
Degrees of Separation "Grandchild of Tree": Orgainized Sound, vol.
6 no. 3, December, 2002.
Degrees of Separation "Grandchild of Tree": CDCM
Series on
Centaur records, expected release Spring, 2002.
"…and every island and mountain were moved from their
place…": SCI recordings (Capstone Records), expected release
December, 2000.
Parallax 2: Apparitions: Living Music Records,
Vol.
VI:
Electroacoustic Cello Book, Craig Hultgren, Cello.
Publications
Books Chapters
Rudy, Paul, “Timbre, Time and Pitch
Strategies in Íris by João Pedro Oliveira” chapter in
Contemporary Portuguese Composers, Edicões Atelier de
Composição, ISBN 972-98846-1-7, December, 2003, pp. 65-84.
Rudy, Paul and Phillipa Gates, “Spectrmoprhology Hits Hollywood:
Morpholgy, Objectification and Moral Messages in the Sound Design of
Black Hawk Down” chapter in Audio Vision (Lectures from Sonoimagenes,
2005), LANUS University, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Exptected
publication in 2007.
Professional
Journals
Rudy, Paul, "Hardwired for Sound" in The Living
Music
Foundation Newsletter. Fall, 1999.
Rudy, Paul, "Music and Computers: the End of the
Beginning,"
in Sound Ideas, March/April, 1999,
Christchurch, New Zealand
Rudy, Paul, “Separation Anxiety, Metaphoric Transmutations from a
Paradoxical Biological Instrument or: What is a cactus doing in our
concert hall?” in Organized
Sound, Vol. 6, No. 2 (Cambridge University
Press: August, 2001).
Rudy,Paul, “Spectro-morphological Diatonicism: Unlocking Style and
Tonality in the Works of Denis Smalley Through Aural Analysis”, Journal
SEAMUS, Vol. XVI, No. 2, Fall/Winter, 2001, pp. 18-27.
Rudy, Paul, “Interpolating Electroacoustic Sounds in an Acoustic
Context: Analyzing Timbre, Time and Pitch in Íris by João
Pedro Oliveira” in Journal
SEAMUS, Vol. 18 No. 2, January, 2006.
Rudy, Paul “Timbral Praxis: When a tree falls in the forest is it
music?” in Organized
Sound 12(1): 5-13. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Proceedings
Rudy, Paul and Mary Pat Henry, “Expanding Dance Performance Paradigms
Through Dynamic Sound Environments: Composer/Choreographer Challenges
in Creating New Interactive Works,” in feedback: perception and
interaction in electronic arts, proceedings from the 8th Biennial
Symposium on Arts and Technology: New London, CT, March 1, 2001, pp.
112-119.
Rudy, Paul, “Separation Anxiety, Metaphoric Transmutations from a
Paradoxical Biological Instrument or: What is a cactus doing in our
concert hall?” in Conference Proceedings for the Aspen Composer’s
Conference, Aspen, CO, August 11, 2001.
Rudy, Paul, “Separation Anxiety, Metaphoric Transmutations from a
Paradoxical Biological Instrument or: What is a cactus doing in our
concert hall?” in Conference Proceedings : Music Without Walls, Music
Without Instruments Conference, De Montfort University, Leicester,
England, June 21, 2001.
Rudy, Paul, Total Sound in Film: Black Hawk Down, A Case Study,
conference proceedings CD-ROM, 2nd Hawaii International Conference on
Arts and Humanities, Honolulu, Jan. 8-11, 2004 .
Rudy, Paul, Spectromorphology Hits Hollywood: Sound Objectification in
Black Hawk Down, conference proceedings, International Computer Music
Conference, Miami, FL. Nov. 1-6, 2004, 658-63.
Gates, Philippa and Paul Rudy, "Sound Shaping and Timbral Justification
in the 'Moral Realist Combat Film' Black Hawk Down" in Proceedings of
the Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology (CIM05) Montréal
(Québec) Canada, 10-3/11/2005.
Jacobs, Sarah and Paul Rudy, “Noise, Dissonance and the
Twentieth-Century Spiritual Crisis: Synchresis in Chion’s Requiem,”
conference proceedings, International Computer Music Conference, New
Orleans, LA Nov. 6-11, 2006.
Internet Publications and
Interviews
“An interview with Paul Rudy”, in Classical KC, August 25, 2003:
www.classicalkc.com
Rudy,Paul, “Spectro-morphological Diatonicism: Unlocking Style and
Tonality in the Works of Denis Smalley Through Aural Analysis”,
eContact!, “Analyse Électroacoustique (Analyses of
Electroacoustics)” in Vol. 6.4: http://cec.concordia.ca/econtact/Analyses/index.html
Rudy, Paul and Phillipa Gates, “Sound Shaping and Timbral Justification
in the “Moral Realist Combat Film” Black Hawk Down”, eContact!, Harvest
Moon and Other Festivals, Conferences, Vol. 8.3.
http://cec.concordia.ca/econtact/8_3/gates_rudy.html
CD and Concert Reviews:
ICMC 2002 Final Concert
for ICMA Array
published online at: http://www.computermusic.org/array.php?artid=95
"Scenes/Sources"
Denis Smalley
CD
review for Sonic Arts Network SAN Diffusion, August, 2001, UK.
Bill Alves The
Terrain of Possibilities
and David Rosenboom Invisible Gold in Array, Journal of
the International Computer Music Association:
http://www.computermusic.org/array.
Honors
Winner, Sounds Electric, 2007 Competition, EAR new
music collective, Dublin, Ireland: November Sycamore Leaf
Finalist 34th annual Bourges Electroacoustic Music Competition,
Bourges, France for In lake’ch.
EMS Prize, Stockholm, Sweden, November, 2002 for Thema:
Omaggio
American Composer’s Orchestra- Whitaker Reading
Sessions, New York City: Symphonie Pastorale for large orchestra, April
5, 2003
Mention, 32nd Bourges International Competition
of
Electroacoustic Music (June, 2005) for Love Song
Mention, 27th Bourges International Competition
of
Electroacoustic Music (June, 2000) for Degrees of Separation
"Grandchild of Tree"
Honorable Mention, Church Keys for piano and
tape:
Shepherd Distinguished Composer Competition: Music Teachers National
Association (April, 2000).
Selected for the 1999 Sonic Circuits VII Festival,
American Composers Forum
Finalist in the 1999 Hultgren Solo Cello Works
Biennial
Composer of the Year, Missouri Music
Teachers
Association, 1998
ASCAP Special Award (1996 to present)
1998/1999 MTNA/MMTA Composer of the Year
Fulbright Fellowship to Victoria University,
Wellington New Zealand (1997)
University of Texas Continuing Fellowship (1996/97)
Associate Artist, Atlantic Center for the Arts,
Augusta Read Thomas master artist, New Smyrna Beach, Florida (1996)
Nominated for ASCAP Commission (1995/96)
Recipient of the Robert Jeffry Womack Endowed
Presidential
Scholarship, The University of Texas, Austin (1994)
Dean Small Grant Award, University of Colorado
for
attendance at the Aspen Music Festival (1994)
Lead Graduate Teacher in Music, University of
Colorado,
Boulder (1993)
Board of Directors, Columbine Chamber Players,
Boulder,
Colorado (1991-94)
NAJE Citation for Outstanding Musicianship in
Arranging,
Wichita Jazz Festival 21, Wichita, KS (1992)
Cecil Effinger Graduate Fellowship in Composition,
University of Colorado, Boulder (1991)
Thresher Award in Music, for outstanding
achievement,
Bethel College, N. Newton, Ks (1984)
NAJE Outstanding Musicianship Award for Trumpet Solo,
Big Band competition, Wichita Jazz Festival 13, Wichita, KS (1983 and
1984)
NAJE Outstanding Musicianship Awards for Trumpet Solo,
Combo competition, Wichita Jazz Festival 12, Wichita, KS (1983)
Performance, Production and Technical
"The Virtual Concert Hall" writing, hosting, and
producing
a one hour radio program of international electroacoustic music.
Broadcast on Resonance FM 104.4 (and web-cast at www.resonanceFM.com),
London,
England produced in partnership with the Sonic Arts Network
www.sonicartsnetwork.org,
Broadcast Dates (46 programs: June, 2002 to April, 2003):
- Passage: Old and New/Mixed and Matched: April 26, 2003
- Mechanics, Strategy and Automata: April 19, 2003
- Night/Supernatural: April 12, 2003
- Surfaces: Glass/Water: April 5, 2003
- Spiritual Overtones: March 29, 2003
- The Nature of Sound: March 22, 2003
- Special Live broadcast from SEAMUS 2003
6:30-8:30 PM
Evelyn
Smith Music Theatre, Arizona State University (March 15, 2003)
- Quotations and Re-composition: March 8, 2003
- Electric Orchestra: March 1, 2003
- Light and Color: February 22, 2003
- Live!: February 15, 2003
- Just good music!: February 8, 2003
- Historically Sound: February 1, 2003
- Dhoormages: January 25, 2003
- Doors: January 18, 2003
- Exploding Pianos: January 11, 2003
- Loose Electric Canons in F: January 4, 2003
- Ensembles: December 28, 2002
- Digital Bugs: December 21, 2002
- The Beat of a Different Drummer: December 14, 2002
- Hyper-Instruments: December 7, 2002
- Music Boxes: November 30, 2002
- Explosion/Implosion: November 23, 2002
- Rock, Roll and Rhythm: November 16, 2002
- Jazz and Blues: November 9, 2002
- Requiem MASSes: November 2, 2002
- Electric String Quartet: October 26, 2002
- Disembodied Voices: October 19, 2002
- Flute Extensions: October 12, 2002
- Virtual Ensembles: October 5, 2002
- Night Music: September 28, 2002
- Rhythmic Explorations: September 21
- Electroacoustic Stories: September 14, 2002
- Swing Machine: September 7, 2002
- Percussive Vibrations: August 31, 2002
- Stellar Points and Dreamy Webs: August 24, 2002
- Hyper Piano: August 18, 2002
- Folk Instrument Extensions: August 10, 2002
- Contraptions, Gadgets, Mousetraps and Paper: August
3, 2002
- Sounds of the Natural World: July 27, 2002
- Classical Music Sources: July 20, 2002
- Pendulums and Pinballs: July 13, 2002
- Electroacoustic Music Retrospective: July 6, 2002
- Theater for the Ear: June 29, 2002
- Atmospheres: June 22, 2002
- Thrummed Strings: June 15, 2002
"The Virtual Concert Hall" Broadcast on KAJX (August 1999 to March,
2001),
Roaring Fork Public Radio, Aspen, Colorado, Broadcast Dates (37
programs,
47 total broadcasts):
- The Virtual Concert Hall Introduction: August 9, 1999.
- Guitar Extensions: August 23, 1999.
- Piano Extensions: September 6, 1999.
- Sounds from the Natural World: September 20, 1999.
- Chamber Music Extensions: October 4, 1999.
- Contraptions, Gadgets/Mousetraps, and Paper: October
18,
1999.
- Extended Sounds: November 8, 1999.
- Rhythmic Explorations: November 22, 1999.
- Vocal Extensions: December 6, 1999; January 20, 2001.
- Woodwind Extensions: December 20, 1999; March 10,
2001.
- Folk Music Extensions: January 3, 2000; March 17,
2001.
- Meditative Works: January 17, 2000; March 31, 2001.
- Women Electroacoustic Composers: January 31, 2000;
April 7,
2001.
- Other Sound Worlds: February 14, 2000.
- Brass Extensions: February 28, 2000.
- Piano Extensions II: March 13, 2000.
- Theater for the Ear: March 27, 2000.
- Spacious Works: April 4, 2000.
- Automata: April 24, 2000.
- In the Garden at Night, May 8, 2000; February 24,
2001.
- Splitting Atoms May 22, 2000; January 6, 2001.
- Flute Extensions June 5, 2000; January 27, 2001.
- Virtual Ensembles June 17, 2000; March 3, 2001.
- Stretched Strings! July 1, 2000; February 10, 2001.
- Mostly Slow Music, July 15, 2000.
- Dancing to the Beat of a Different Drummer, September
9,
2000.
- Electroacoustic Music Retrospective, September 23,
2000.
- Other Terrains, October 7, 2000.
- Electroacoustic Stories, October 21, 2000.
- More Folk Extensions, November 4, 2000.
- Vocal Extensions II, November 18, 2000.
- Micro to Mega, December 2, 2000.
- Comic Relief, December 16, 2000.
- Vitruvian Drones, December 30, 2000.
- Wet, January 13, 2001.
- Sea of Reeds and Breath, February 3, 2001.
- Real Time Sculpted Sound, February 17, 2001.
Other
Technical...
2002/3
Co-director and host of Electronic Music Midwest
Festival,
Kansas City, hosted at UMKC Conservatory, Oct. 30-Nov. 1, 2003, in
partnership with Kansas City, Kansas, Community College and Lewis
University (Joliet, IL).
Technical Producer, Electronica Concert, newEar
Ensemble,
Kansas City, MO, November 7, 2003.
Producer, Seeing Ear Concert, newEar Ensemble,
November 2,
2001.
Imagination Stations for Sound: Nelson-Atkins Museum
of
Art, Kansas City. Two day installation followed by a concert of
interactive, audience participatory music using sound installation
systems programmed by Paul Rudy and Timothy Place; August 25-27, 2000.
2002 to 2003: Producer, Writer, and Host of The Virtual
Concert Hall, a weekly radio program for Resonance FM, London,
England; 104.4 FM (52 one hour programs of International
Electroacoustic Music
in partnership with the Sonic Arts Network).
2001
1999 to 2001: Producer, Writer, and Host of The Virtual Concert
Hall, a weekly radio program for KAJX, Roaring Fork Public
Radio, Aspen, Colorado; 91.5 FM (37 one hour programs of International
Electroacoustic Music).
Producer: Seeing Ear: concert of electroacoustic
works
for newEar Ensemble, Kansas City, MO, November 2, 2001.
Performer: Degrees of Separation, Also Sprach
DJ
Zarathustra Electroacoustic Music Festival, Portland Oregon, October,
2001.
Performer: Degrees of Separation and Boys in the
Attic
at the Lemon Tree Café, Aberdeen, Scotland, June 26, 2001.
Also performed sound diffusion of works by four other composers
on 15 channel audio system.
Performer: Degrees of Separation, at Music
Without
Wall?
Music Without Instruments? Conference, Leicester, England, June 21,
2001.
Vocal Performer, James Mobberley, Vox Inhumana,
Real-Time Concert, newEar Ensemble: St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, Kansas
City, MO, March 8, 2001.
Computer programming and performance for Chris
Brown
"Waves" (for Shakuhachi and Live Electronics) newEar Ensemble Real Time
Concert, St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, March 7, 2001.
8th Biennial Symposium of Arts and Technology,
Connecticut
College: rehearsal coaching and sound diffusion, World Premier,
João Pedro Oliveira "In Tempora," March 1, 2001.
Web development and implementation: Inter-media
Music
Production and Computer Technology Center, UMKC Conservatory of Music,
Homepage
and seven peripheral pages showcasing activities and personnel at the
iMPact Center- http://www.umkc.edu/mpact
2000
Performer for Kromozone, "The Nature of
Contingency":
Seoul International Festival of Computer Music, November 5, 2000.
Producer and sound engineer for collaborative
Amplified
Music Performance Series/Percussion recital: Aspen Music Festival, July
31st, 2000.
Recording Engineer: Masterclass orchestral reading,
Aspen
Music School, July 13, 2000.
Performer: Spring in Havana 2000 International
Electroacoustic Music Festival. Chinese Food II for chopsticks
and computer
by Timothy Place.
1999
Audio Engineer for ACE Choice: "Music for
Acoustic
and Amplified Ensembles," Aspen, Co.
Producer: Digital Bugs, Electroacoustic Sound
Diffusion
Concert. UMKC, Conservatory of Music: Works from the MPACT Center
and Beyond.
Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival, Gainesville,
Fl.:
Sound diffusion for Remnants
1998
International Computer Music Conference, Ann
Arbor
Michigan:
sound diffusion performances of John Young "Virtual" and Paul
Rudy Parallax 1 "Violin"
Aspen Contemporary Ensemble, Aspen Music Festival:
sound
reinforcement for George Crumb, Vox Balanae
Aspen Festival Orchestra: synthesizer programming
for John
Adams Nixon in China and Violin Concerto
Aspen Contemporary Ensemble: Sound reinforcement for
Mario
Davidovsky, Synchornism No. 6 for Piano and Tape
Wellington Fringe Festival, Wellington, New Zealand:
Francis Dhomont, Lettre de Sarajevo and Paul Rudy, "...and
every island and mountain were moved from their place..."
1997
ACE Choice Concert, Aspen Music Festival, audio technician and
diffusion: Rob Smith, Essential Torque; John Cage, Child of Tree
EARS, University of Texas, B. Iden Payne Theater:
Polyglot
Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival, Gainesville,
FL,
18700
1995/6
Amplified Music Performance Series, Aspen Music
Festival: two concerts each summer, Aspen, CO
1995-6
INsideOUT, Atlantic Center for the Arts: Paul
Rudy,
Under Construction, sound diffusion and audio engineer
AMPS (Amplified Music Performance Series inaugural
concert) at
the Aspen Music Festival: Mark Wingate, Ode to the South Facing Form;
Denis Smalley, Wind Chimes; Jonty Harrison, Unsound Objects,
Miguel Ruiz, Selves; Claudius Cazan, first Aspen
Society of Electroacoustic Music in the United States,
National Conference, Birmingham Alabama: Paul Rudy, Geographic Bells
EARS, University of Texas School of Music: Trio for
Three; Karl Korte, Homage-Bud Powell; Paul Rudy; Three
Pieces from Water into Light
Lobby Concerts, Electronic Music Studios, The
University
of Texas, Austin: Todd Machover, Flora
Adjudication
UMKC School of Architecture: "Bach in a Box"
project
reviewer and critique of students projects, October 17, 2003, and
Freshman "Client" project: initial mock consultation and follow-up
project critique.
Louisa Stude Sarofim Composition Contest, University
of
Houston, School of Music, Feb. 2003.
SEAMUS 2003 Adjudication Panel member : music for
tape
alone category
Electronic Music Midwest Annual Festival (Jan. and
Sept.
2002)
SEAMUS 2001 National Conference Web Audio Clip
Selection
Committee
Guest Reviewer, UMKC Architecture Department,
Sophomore
Design Project 2 "Bach in a Box", October 12, 2001.
Adjudicator: Missouri Music Teachers Student Composition
Contest, October 1999, 2000, 2001.
SEAMUS 2001 National Conference Web Audio Clip
Selection
Committee, October, 2000.
Adjudicator: Missouri Music Teachers Composer of the Year
Award, 1999, 2000.
Adjudication for the Henry and Parker Pelzer Prize in
Composition, University of Iowa, May, 2000.
Selection Jury Member: 1st Annual Kansas City Festival of
Electroacoustic Music. Feb. 12, 2000.
Adjudicator: Midwestern Section of the Music Teachers National
Association Student Composition Contest, 1999.
Selection Jury: Australasian Computer Music Conference,
Wellington, New Zealand, July, 1999.
Grants and Fellowships
UMKC Faculty Research Grant, April, 2002-May,
2003,
$6,000.
University of Missouri Research Board Grant, April,
2002-May 2003, $11,800.
International Visual and Performing Arts Center
(UMKC) Arts Innovation Board Grant for the Virtual
Concert Hall in London, May, 2002-May, 2003: $1,000.
International Visual and Performing Arts Center
(UMKC)
"Mini Residency Grant" for Bass Clarinetist Harry Sparnaay Residency,
April 8-10: $1,000.
Meet the Composer Grant for John Young Composer
Residency,
$750, April, 2000.
Meet the Composer Grant, Music From China, travel
stipend
for premier performance of Fantasie (erhu and tape), Merkin Hall, Nov.
11, 2000 ($200).
UMKC Faculty Research Grant. "Developing
Software to
Compose for Dancers and Live Musicians with Computer Interactivity":
June 1, 2000 to June 1, 2001 ($6,000).
Meet the Composer Grant for Tom Lopez,
artist-in-residence: 1st annual Kansas City Festival of Electroacoustic
Music: April 27-29, 2000 ($625 matching grant).
UMKC Office of Research Assistance Travel Grant for
attending the VII biennial "Spring in Havana" International
Electroacoustic Music Festival: February 2000 ($700).
Co-author, Computer Use Fees Special Projects Grant the Music
Production and Computer Technology Center, UMKC Conservatory of Music,
Spring, 1999 ($98,763).
Fulbright Fellowship to Victoria University,
Wellington
New Zealand, 1997-98 ($18,000 NZ).
University of Texas Continuing Fellowship, 1996-7
($11,500)
Recipient, Dean Small Grant Award, University of Colorado, 1994
($750)
Professional Associations
American Composer's Forum (ACF)
Music Associates of Aspen (MAA),
Corporate Member
American Society of Composers Authors and
Publishers (ASCAP)
International Computer Music Association (ICMA)
Society of Electroacoustic Music in the
United
States (SEAMUS)
Electronic Music Foundation (EMF)
Charter
Subscription Member
Texas Computer Music Network (TCMN)
Living Music Foundation
Society of Composers, Inc. (SCI)
Sonic Arts Network (SAN)
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