presents Award Winning Composer  

Richard Audd

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Sir Francis Bacon: "Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical."  

Richard and RMA Music have received funding for music in the Native American Recording Project through a Common Ground Grant. 

This First Nations Composer Initiative project is supported through the Ford Foundation's Indigenous Knowledge, Expressive Culture grant program of the American Composers Forum.

This funding allows the recording of a film score by Comanche composer, David Yeagley.

Three grants have now awarded to fund this project.

RMA Music has received grants to for the Native American Recording Project. We have extended a call for scores to all Native American composers of "classical" or "concert" music.

Three Native American composers have now had their works recorded. Excerpts from these works are available at the NARP site.

For details of this open-ended project, go to NARP.

Thoughts,Conflicts,and a Contemplation or Two

The sum of an artist’s work is made up of many creations over a period of time. For the artist, some of these parts are not of a quality the artist wishes to be seen or heard by the public at large. They don’t reflect the artist’s self-observed ability or talent, or they don’t reflect what the artist wishes to convey through his work.

In looking back over my own musical creations, there are works that I simply do not wish to be heard. Some works are quite naïve or imitations of other composers. Others are quite original. And still others are obvious attempts at experimentation. In a moment of retrospect, I have decided to combine all of the music that represents how I wish to be viewed as a composer under one title. This music is eclectic and varied in its forms and tonalities, from the commercial to the esoteric.

Thoughts, Conflicts, And A Contemplation Or Two is the anthology of my best works as I perceive them. The individual works are not listed in any particular order. But all are programmed around a set of what was originally a set of five short so-called inventions written for piano in 1967. I later undertook the scoring of these ‘inventions’ for orchestra. All of the remaining music is comprised of various works, both 'commercial' and ‘serious’ in nature.

The music is a combination of original recordings and midi-realized performances, each of which have been re-recorded using the same computer-generated instrumental libraries to achieve a consistency of sound.

"This stuff is great!" Tracy West, NPR Radio

"I don't have to tell you you've got the chops to be a composer. 

You are a composer."

Composer, George S. Clinton      (Austin Powers, The Santa Clause 3)