Adam Rudolph - handrumset, electronic processing, thumb pianos, mouth bow, gongs, percussion; Alexis Marcelo - piano, electric keyboards, kudu horn, percussion; Kaoru Watanabe - taiko, Japanese percussion, noh kan and fue flutes, electric koto and processing; Stephen Haynes - cornets, flugelhorns, trumpet, conch shells, didgeridoos, percussion

The music of Adam Rudolph reveals itself like an excursion into an undiscovered country. Rudolph's compositions create environments for musical invention, fertile soil from which sound carves out its own landscape. It's a ritual space, hallowed ground for metaphysical exploration and exultation of the sonic urge, a spiritual celebration of music forever in the act of becoming.

Stumbling into this imaginary clearing, the aural traveler might be astounded to find an idiosyncratic culture, at once familiar and exotic, primeval and advanced, cerebral and emotionally direct. The constantly transforming terrain can shift suddenly from Delta swampland to African veldt, from urban Chicago to rural India, conjured from Rudolph's evocative, imagistic orchestration.

For the past five decades composer and percussionist Adam Rudolph has performed extensively throughout North & South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia. He has released over 30 recordings under his own name, featuring his compositions and percussion work. Rudolph composes for his ensembles Moving Pictures, Hu Vibrational, and Go: Organic Orchestra, a 30-piece group for which he has developed an original music notation and con- ducting system.

He has taught and conducted hundreds of musicians worldwide in his Go: Organic Orchestra concept. Rudolph has performed with Don Cherry, Jon Hassell, Andre 3000, Sam Rivers, Pharaoh Sanders, Muhal Richard Abrams, Shankar, Dave Liebman, Wadada Leo Smith, Philip Glass, Fred Anderson, and Tyshawn Sorey, among others. He toured extensively and recorded 15 albums with Yusef Lateef, including duets and their large ensemble compositional collaborations. His compositions have been performed by Momenta String Quartet, Oberlin Percussion Group, Figura Chamber Orchestra, and Odense Percussion Ensemble, among others.

Rudolph is known as one of the early innovators of what is now called “World Music.” In 1978 he co-founded, with Foday Musa Suso, the Mandingo Griot Society, one of the first groups to combine African and American music, and in 1988 he recorded the first fusion of American and Moroccan Gnawa music with sintir player Hassan Hakmoun. Rudolph has received numerous grants and awards for his work. His music methodology and philosophy books, Pure Rhythm, (2006), and Sonic Elements (2022) have been used by composers, performers, students, and music institutions around the world.