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Winner,
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2008 Kauffman Award for Artisitic Excellence, UMKC Conservatory November Sycamore Leaf Wins Sounds Electric '07 Competition in Dublin, Ireland Download Novermber Sycamore Leaf |
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Accordion Music
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In
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yourself") "It's
like a lifetime compressed into an hour...I didn't want it to
end" ~Michael
Knight, Helene Wurlitzer Foundation
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It takes courage and audacity, perhaps, to write a piece about 'finding equilibrium,' in Rudy's works, 'between the wildness of a mechanized culture and a calm that comes from discovering peace inside one's own spiritual place.' But Vastly Shrinking Space finds a potent middle ground by juxtaposing recorded sounds ranging from birds to trucks with vigorously scored, often lyrical cello passages...It is a work of real substance. One felt a real sense of struggle between the pleading cries of the cell and the monstrous machine-like churning. At one point a mechanized roar threatened to take over the cello entirely, until a bird-like sputtering signaled new hope and a coda of tender harmonics." PAUL
HORSLEY, KANSAS
CITY STAR
February
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"November
Sycamore
Leaf brought together sound and video in a
stunning combination. The visual changes, which the composer had
orchestrated within the picture of the leaf, were nicely matched by the
development of the sounds. This was a truly beautiful piece."
ALAN
COOPER,
UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN
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 Juan, John, Raul, Alejandro, Jose, Jorge Sacaan The other Pablo, Federico, Cecelia Cafe Venezia (Pablo Neruda's Favorite Hang) Ai-maako Festival, Santiago Chile, October, 2006 |
 The Great Wall, Oct. 2007 |
 Short ride in a slow machine, Beijing, Oct. 2007 (with Pui-shan Cheung) |
