Stephen Rush: Composer, Artist, Professor

Stephen Rush:
Composer, Pianist, Author

Art Installations and Scientific Research:

Sonification of Sleep Data” (Mayo Clinic) – “Phenotypes for Hypopnea and Apnea Diagnosis.”  FUN!  Sonfication with digital audio modules – of EEG, EKG, Pulse and Nasal sleep data as a means for increasing acuity and diagnostics for sleep patients; in collaboration with Dr.’s Kara Dupuy-McCauley and Timothy Morganthaler of the Mayo Clinic and with Greg Syrjala (Engineer/Musician).

Summer Program in India” – taking students to India for one month each summer since 2005 (over 140 students); immersive study in music/dance/yoga in Mysore, India.

World Without Ice” – multisensory experience/installation with original composition written by Stephen Rush, whose patterns and structure are derived from 120 years of climate data; ice-melt actuated instrument created by 10 ice domes melting onto drums created by Michael Gould in collaboration with Nobel prize-winning physicist Henry Pollack. See Documentary about project here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSlZ51ZKk3E

Dark Matter” (original compositions with projected video)- Performances at Living Arts Center, Tulsa, OK and in England and China (exhibits); Currently in Portugal – here!  Installation can run for months; project with visual artist Jim Cogswell and physicists Brian Noble (Fermi Labs) and Greg Tarlê; LP and DVD productions.