Jøran Rudi has developed an esthetic point of view in which the sum total is dependent upon the details, and the details dependent upon their mutual context. This perspective weaves itself like a common thread through most of Rudi’s musical output, and also provides the momentum for the works on this DVD. Following early influences rooted in popular music, Rudi received his musical education at New York University, and has worked with electro-acoustic and computer music for the last twenty…
Jøran Rudi has developed an esthetic point of view in which the sum total is dependent upon the details, and the details dependent upon their mutual context. This perspective weaves itself like a common thread through most of Rudi’s musical output, and also provides the momentum for the works on this DVD.
Following early influences rooted in popular music, Rudi received his musical education at New York University, and has worked with electro-acoustic and computer music for the last twenty years. The wish to introduce art music into arenas made accessible by new media forms has been a driving force in Rudi’s work, and his compositions often draw on structural as well as acoustic ideas that lie outside of those areas commonly associated with music.
Storytelling is important to Rudi as a composer, and he develops his stories in such a way that both wonderment and recognition, as well as boredom are part of the listener’s experience. This kind of balance, between art and popular expression, between fascination and esthetic provocation, is central to his work as an artist in the new media forms.
Jøran Rudi (b. 1954) studied social science and composition, and has for many years filled various positions in the musical life of Norway. He is also the director of the Norwegian network for Technology, Acoustics and Music (NoTAM).