Charles Rudig
My name is Charles Rudig, and thank you for visiting my web page! I am a composer, noise performer, and sound artist. I reside in Brooklyn, NY, where I teach courses in the music department at Brooklyn College. I compose for limited sonic and material resources, often pairing new music ensembles with obsolete consumer technologies such as the Game Boy and the SK-1 sampler. I see the world around me as a graveyard of materials left behind by a world order that favors growth and the extraction of resources over human and nonhuman flourishing. I seek to revitalize theses materials and bear witness to some overlooked beauty in the ruins. As a noisician, I perform on no-input mixers in collaboration with improvising instrumentalists. My music is mournful, but also deeply optimistic about life on earth.
My approach to composition has been shaped by collaboration by wonderful and thoughtful ensembles including Mivos Quartet, Contemporaneous, Hypercube, and JACK Quartet as well as solo performers including Aaron Butler, Gleb Kanasevich, Miranda Cuckson, and Vicente Alexim.
I hold master’s degrees in composition and music theory from The Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University. I hold a PhD in music and an Advanced Certificate in Critical Theory from The CUNY Graduate Center. At these institutions, I studied composition with my mentors Oscar Bettison and Jason Eckardt.
Soundcloud (Concert Music)
Bandcamp (Noise and Free Improvisation)