Rudess playing at the 17th International Percussion Festival in Opole, Poland, October 19, 2008 | |
Background information | |
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Birth name | Jordan Charles Rudes |
Born | November 4, 1956 (age 62) |
Origin | Great Neck, New York, U.S. |
Genres | Progressive rock, progressive metal, classical, new-age, electronic |
Occupation(s) | Musician, songwriter |
Instruments | Keyboards |
Years active | 1981–present |
Associated acts | Dream Theater, Speedway Boulevard, Dixie Dregs, Liquid Tension Experiment, John Petrucci, Rod Morgenstein, David Bowiejordanrudess.com |
Jordan Rudess (born Jordan Charles Rudes;[1][2] November 4, 1956) is an American keyboardist and composer best known as a member of the progressive metal/rock band Dream Theater and the progressive rock supergroupLiquid Tension Experiment.
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Biography[edit]
Jordan Rudess was born in 1956 into a Jewish family. He was recognized by his 2nd grade teacher for his piano playing and was immediately given professional instruction. At nine, he entered the Juilliard School of Music Pre-College Division for classical piano training, but by his late teens he had grown increasingly interested in synthesizers and progressive rock music. Against the counsel of his parents and tutors, he turned away from classical piano and tried his hand as a solo progressive rock keyboardist.[3]
When Bleu Ocean was assembling a team of fellow drummers to perform on the song 'Bring the Boys Back Home', featured at Pink Floyd's The Wall, he invited Rudess for the session, since the keyboardist had been playing drums for a while. However, Rudess's performance was rejected by producer Bob Ezrin. At that time, Rudess had already chosen the keyboards as his main instrument.[4]
Rudess was part of a studio project assembled by bubblegum pop impresarios Jerry Kasenetz and Jeffry Katz, the folks behind The Ohio Express and The 1910 Fruitgum Company. In 1980, they tried their hand at album-oriented rock with Speedway Boulevard, which also featured touring members of Ram Jam. The group never performed live, and disbanded shortly after the release of the album.
After performing in various projects during the 1980s, he gained international attention in 1994 when he was voted 'Best New Talent' in the Keyboard Magazine readers' poll after the release of his Listen solo album. Two of the bands who took notice of Rudess were The Dixie Dregs and Dream Theater, both of whom invited him to join. Rudess chose the Dregs, primarily as being a part-time member of the band would have less of an impact on his young family, a choice he was not given with Dream Theater.
During his time with the Dregs, Rudess formed a 'power duo' with drummer Rod Morgenstein. The genesis of this pairing occurred when a power outage caused all of the Dregs' instruments to fail except Rudess', so he and Morgenstein improvised with each other until power was restored and the concert could continue. The chemistry between the two was so strong during this jam that they decided to perform together on a regular basis (under the name Rudess/Morgenstein Project or later RMP) and have since released a studio and a live record.
Rudess encountered Dream Theater once again when he and Morgenstein secured the support slot on one of Dream Theater's North American tours.
In 1997, when Mike Portnoy was asked to form a supergroup by Magna Carta Records, Rudess was chosen to fill the keyboardist spot in the band, which also consisted of Tony Levin and Portnoy's Dream Theater colleague John Petrucci. During the recording of Liquid Tension Experiment's two albums it became evident to Portnoy and Petrucci that Rudess was what Dream Theater needed. They asked Rudess to join the band, and when he accepted they released their then-keyboardist Derek Sherinian to make way for him.
Rudess has been the full-time keyboardist in Dream Theater since the recording of 1999's Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory. He has recorded nine other studio albums with the group: 2002's Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence, 2003's Train of Thought, 2005's Octavarium, 2007's Systematic Chaos, 2009's Black Clouds & Silver Linings, 2011's A Dramatic Turn of Events, 2013's Dream Theater, 2016's The Astonishing, and 2019's Distance over Time. In addition, he has appeared on the live albums Live Scenes From New York, Live at Budokan, Score, Chaos in Motion, Live at Luna Park and Breaking the Fourth Wall.
In addition to working with Dream Theater he occasionally records and performs in other contexts, such as a 2001 one-off duo performance with Petrucci (released as the CD An Evening With John Petrucci and Jordan Rudess), as well as backing up Blackfield on their first short US tour in 2005 and playing a solo opening slot for them on their second in 2007. He also contributed to Steven Wilson's 2011 album, Grace for Drowning.[5]
In 2010, Rudess composed 'Explorations for Keyboard and Orchestra,' his first classical composition. It was premiered in Venezuela on November 19, 2010 by the Chacao Youth Symphony Orchestra and guest conductor Eren Başbuğ. Rudess played all of the keyboard and synthesizer parts.
On July 28, 2011, in a poll conducted by MusicRadar, Rudess was voted the best keyboardist of all time.[6]
Rudess says his influences as a keyboardist are Keith Emerson, Tony Banks, Rick Wakeman and Patrick Moraz.[7] His favorite musical artists and groups include Gentle Giant, Yes, Genesis, Pink Floyd, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, King Crimson, Jimi Hendrix, Autechre, and Aphex Twin.[8] https://renewct700.weebly.com/john-coltrane-newport-63-rarest.html.
Rudess appeared on the Ayreon album, The Theory of Everything released on October 28, 2013.
Use of technology[edit]
While many keyboard players in progressive rock tend towards bringing numerous keyboards on stage, creating large racks of keyboards, Rudess would sample sounds from other keyboards he owned and map them to a single keyboard. Each 'setup' assigns different sounds to different layers and key ranges of the keyboard controller; these setups are then arranged in the order they will be required for a gig, and cycled through with a foot-switch.
From the 1990s onward, he used a Kurzweil K2600XS during live sets, until switching to Korg's Oasys workstation in 2005, which he first used on Dream Theater's 2005–2006 20th Anniversary tour, along with a Muse Receptor hardware VST and a Haken Continuum X/Y/Z-plane MIDI instrument triggering a Roland V-Synth XT and a synthesizers.com modular unit designed by Richard Lainhart and Roger Arrick. Influenced by Lainhart, Rudess was the first well known keyboardist to bring a Haken Continuum on to a live stage.[9] Rudess still uses the Kurzweil for studio recordings and some of his most well known sounds, such as 'the pig', one of his signature sounds which is often played in unison with the guitar or bass guitar, were sounds from the K2600xs. In 2011 Jordan switched from the Oasys to the new flagship Korg Kronos. In addition, he added a Roland Ax-edge and a hammond XK-5 in 2019 and were used on dream theaters 2019 record Distance over time. His current live rig consists of the Kronos together with a Continuum, a Hammond XK-5, a roland AX-edge, a lap steel guitar, a Harpejji, and an iPad.
Since 2001, Rudess has used custom made rotating keyboard stands on stage for both Dream Theater and his solo career, which are built by Patrick Slaats from the Netherlands.[2] On Dream Theater's 2007–2008 'Chaos in Motion Tour, Rudess expanded his live setup with the addition of a Korg RADIAS, a Manikin Memotron,[10] and a Zen Rifferkeytar. Rudess stopped using his Synthesizers.com modular after the European leg of the tour due to its size and weight. Rudess still owns the synthesizer and keeps it in his home studio. During the Progressive Nation 2008 tour, he introduced on the stage a Kaoss Pad 3 for the closing medley.
For the 2009–2010 tour, in support of Black Clouds & Silver Linings, Jordan introduced the AppleiPhone on stage, running an application called Bebot Robot Synth.[11] He plays it during A Rite of Passage – both studio album and live versions of the song – and frequently uses it for improvised solos, like in Hollow Years' intro and during a new instrumental section on Solitary Shell.
On September 24, 2010, Rudess released the song 'Krump,' which was an electronica 'single' released on iTunes. It featured the use of the new Roland Gaia, Roland's more recent keyboard.
Software Development[edit]
In 2010 Rudess started a software company called Wizdom Music. He paired with artists such as Kevin Chartier, Felipe Peña and Eyal Amir (from Project RnL), creating new types of musical instrumental user interfaces and experiences, new and innovative ways of creating sound synthesis, and of recording and performing music, with tablet computers.[12]
The company also produced a unique game for learning pitch and chord recognition and an app for real time video effects on a live camera.
Wizdom Music created the following software:
- SampleWiz – a touch screen enabled sampler and self sampler for the iPhone and iPad[13]
- MorphWiz – a dynamic touch screen music creation controller for iOS, Android, and Windows 8 enabled touch pads and laptops[14]
- Geo Synthesizer – a new digital music controller interface, for the iPhone and iPad.[15]
- Tachyon – app for mixing, morphing and transitioning between two types of sound, for the iPhone and iPad.[16]
- Leap motion music – a yet to be released touchless music controller by four finger location in 3d, creating music verses according to the fingers' locations, with the Leap Motion controller.[17]
- HarmonyWiz - an advanced harmonic generator which can create multi-part harmony, all just from inputting a single musical line. You can paint your music in or play it from a piano style keyboard.[promotional language][18]
- Jordantron - An app that contains all the sounds of Jordan's live rig into your iPad. This is the first time Jordan Rudess has released a complete set of his exclusive sounds to the public.[19]
- SketchWiz - turns your camera into your personal sketch artist. You can view your world as pencil, pen, chalk, or charcoal sketches, and you can save your masterpieces to your photo library.[20]
- EarWizard - Trains your ear while improving your memory skills. Repeat back a sequence of chords which gets longer with each round of play.[promotional language][21]
- GeoShred - an app that enables musicians to create mind bending guitar sounds and effects on an iPad.[promotional language][22]
Discography[edit]
Solo albums[edit]
- Arrival (1988)
- Listen (1993)
- Secrets of the Muse (1997)
- Resonance (1999)
- Feeding the Wheel (2001)
- 4NYC (2002)
- Christmas Sky (2002)
- Rhythm of Time (2004)
- Prime Cuts (2006, compilation)
- The Road Home (2007, cover album)
- Notes on a Dream (2009)
- All That Is Now (2013)
- Explorations (2014)
- The Unforgotten Path (2015)
- Wired for Madness (2019)
Dream Theater[edit]
- Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory (1999)
- Metropolis 2000: Scenes from New York (2001)
- Live Scenes from New York (2001)
- Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence (2002)
- Train of Thought (2003)
- Live at Budokan (2004)
- Octavarium (2005)
- Score (2006)
- Systematic Chaos (2007)
- Chaos in Motion (2008)
- Black Clouds & Silver Linings (2009)
- A Dramatic Turn of Events (2011)
- Dream Theater (2013)
- Live at Luna Park (2013)
- Breaking the Fourth Wall (2014)
- The Astonishing (2016)
- Distance Over Time (2019)
Project albums[edit]
- Rudess/Morgenstein Project - Rudess/Morgenstein Project (1997)
- John Petrucci & Jordan Rudess - An Evening with John Petrucci and Jordan Rudess (2000)
- Rudess/Morgenstein Project – The Official Bootleg (2001)
- Levin Minnemann Rudess – Levin Minnemann Rudess (2013)
- Levin Minnemann Rudess - From the Law Offices of Levin Minnemann Rudess (2016)
- Jordan Rudess/Steve Horelick - Intersonic (2017)
Liquid Tension Experiment[edit]
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- Liquid Tension Experiment(1998)
- Liquid Tension Experiment 2 (1999)
- Spontaneous Combustion (2007, as Liquid Trio Experiment)
- When the Keyboard Breaks: Live in Chicago (2009, as Liquid Trio Experiment 2)
- Liquid Tension Experiment Live 2008 – Limited Edition Boxset (2009)
Guest appearances[edit]
- Vinnie Moore – Time Odyssey (1988)
- Tom Coster – Did Jah Miss Me? (1989)
- Jan Hammer-Tony Williams - ‘’Montreal Jazz Festival’’ (1991)
- Annie Haslam – Blessing in Disguise (1994)
- Nóirín Ní Riain – Celtic Soul (1996)
- Kip Winger – This Conversation Seems Like A Dream (1997)
- Rhonda Larson – Free as a Bird (1999)
- Jupiter – Jupiter Project (1999)
- Paul Winter and The Earth Band – Journey with the Sun (2000)
- Scott McGill – Addition by Subtraction (2001)
- Prefab Sprout – The Gunman And Other Stories (2001)
- David Bowie – Heathen (2002)
- Jupiter – Echo and Art (2003)
- Neal Morse – ? (2005)
- Daniel J – Losing Time (2005)
- Neil Zaza – When Gravity Fails (2006)
- Behold.. the Arctopus – Skullgrid (2007)
- K3 – Under A Spell (2007)
- Ricky Garcia – Let Sleeping Dogs Lie (2008)
- Steven Wilson – Insurgentes (2008–2009)
- Michel Lazaro – Vision (2010)
- Steven Wilson – Grace For Drowning (2011)
- Len & Vani Greene – Luminosity (2011)
- Affector – Harmagedon (2012)
- Sylencer – A Lethal Dose of Truth (2012)
- Mr. Fastfinger – In Motion (2012)
- LALU – Atomic Ark (2013)
- Ayreon - The Theory of Everything (2013)
- Scream Maker – Livin' in the Past (2014)
- Eyal Amir - 'Bad News Jitterbug' (2016)
- Virtual Symmetry - Message From Eternity (2016)[23]
- Gleb Kolyadin - Gleb Kolyadin (2018)[24]
- The Sea Within - The Sea Within (2018)[25]
- Dewa Budjana - Mahandini (2019)[26]
- Richard Henshall – The Cocoon (2019)
References[edit]
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- ^'Archived copy'. Archived from the original on April 28, 2009. Retrieved May 1, 2009.CS1 maint: Archived copy as title (link)
- ^'Get Ready to ROCK! Interview with Jordan Rudess, keyboard player with progressive rock band Dream Theater'. Getreadytorock.com. Retrieved July 28, 2014.
- ^Ling, Dave (January 4, 2016). 'How Jordan Rudess Almost Played On The Wall'. Prog. Team Rock. Retrieved January 28, 2016.
- ^'Jordan Rudess' contribution to Grace for Drowning – Jordan Rudess' Community Forums'. Jordanrudess.com. Archived from the original on April 15, 2012. Retrieved August 4, 2012.
- ^Scot Solida (July 27, 2011). 'The 27 greatest keyboard players of all time | Jordan Rudess | Tech News'. MusicRadar. Retrieved July 28, 2014.
- ^[1]Archived September 27, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
- ^'Archived copy'. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved June 29, 2015.CS1 maint: Archived copy as title (link)
- ^'Departures: Richard Lainhart'. KeyboardMag. February 7, 2012. Retrieved July 28, 2014.
- ^'elektronische Musikmaschinen aus Berlin'. manikin electronic. Archived from the original on July 15, 2014. Retrieved July 28, 2014.
- ^'Rudess Meets Bebot'. YouTube. February 15, 2009. Retrieved July 28, 2014.
- ^'About Us'. Wizdom Music. Retrieved July 28, 2014.
- ^'SampleWiz'. Wizdom Music. Retrieved July 28, 2014.
- ^'MorphWiz'. Wizdom Music. Retrieved July 28, 2014.
- ^'Geo Synthesizer'. Wizdom Music. Retrieved July 28, 2014.
- ^'Tachyon'. Wizdom Music. Retrieved July 28, 2014.
- ^'Exploring Leap Motion'. YouTube. July 24, 2013. Retrieved July 28, 2014.
- ^'HarmonyWiz - Wizdom Music'. Retrieved May 9, 2015.
- ^'Jordantron - Wizdom Music'. Retrieved May 9, 2015.
- ^[promotional language]'Wizdom Music - Products'. Retrieved May 9, 2015.
- ^'EarWizard - Wizdom Music'. Retrieved May 9, 2015.
- ^'Introducing GeoShred!'.
- ^https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biYkGhLLpkQ
- ^https://glebkolyadin.bandcamp.com/
- ^https://www.facebook.com/TheSeaWithin1/posts/378233492661084
- ^https://www.facebook.com/leonardo.moonjunerecords/posts/2421771084503130?notif_id=1542219761560662¬if_t=feedback_reaction_generic
External links[edit]
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Top Row: Charlie Griffiths, Diego Tejeida, Raymond Hearne; Middle Row: Conner Green and Richard Henshall; Bottom Row: Ross Jennings
Influenced by:- Dream Theater, Tool, Opeth, Gentle Giant, Yes, Jethro Tull, Pink Floyd, Pain of Salvation, Bill Evans, Esbjörn Svensson, Pat Metheny, Claude Debussy, Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, Alexandre Desplat, John Williams, Danny Elfman
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Haken is a British Progressive Rock/Metal band formed in London in 2007 by To-Mera guitarist and keyboardist Richard Henshall and two of his school friends, Ross Jennings and Matthew Marshall. The band's albums have been met with critical acclaim, and they've achieved a high level of popularity within the Prog community.
A lot of their songs feature an intense level of instrumental and vocal virtuosity, philosophical lyrics, longer song lengths, and a generally quirky attitude. They gathered some attention to themselves with the help of their video for 'Cockroach King', which features a muppet-themed parody of Bohemian Rhapsody's famous music video. They've garnered the respect of a few of the larger names in the Prog community, including Jordan Rudess and Mike Portnoy, who have both praised their music. The orchestral tribute group Symphonic Theater of Dreams is also currently making a symphonic tribute album to the band.
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In 2014, the band released an EP titled Restoration containing updates of a select few songs from their demo, Enter the Fifth Dimension. Their fifth full studio album, Vector, was released on October 26, 2018.
Discography:
- Enter the 5th Dimension (2008 - Demo)
- Aquarius (2010)
- Visions (2011)
- The Mountain (2013)
- Restoration (2014 - EP)
- Affinity (2016)
- Vector (2018)
Current Members:
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- Ross Jennings - lead vocals (2007-)
- Richard Henshall - guitars and keyboards (2007-)
- Raymond Hearne - drums, tuba (2007-)
- Charles Griffiths - guitars (2008-)
- Diego Tejeida - keyboards (2008-)
- Conner Green - bass (2014-)
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Former Members:
- Thomas MacLean - bass (2007-2013)
- Matthew Marshall - guitar (2007-2008)
- Peter Jones - keyboards (2007-2008)
Haken provides examples of the following tropes:
- A Cappella: Used in parts of 'Cockroach King', the opening of 'Because It's There', and the half-way point of 'Crystallised'.
- Affectionate Parody: The video for 'Cockroach King' is one of the video for 'Bohemian Rhapsody'.
- Album Title Drop: Done once in every album but Restoration.
- Aquarius is mentioned in 'Aquarium'.
- Visions appears in, well, 'Visions'.
- The Mountain is a line from 'Falling Back to Earth'.
- Affinity appears in the lyrics to 'The Architect' in several places, as well as the title of the opening instrumental 'affinity.exe'.
- Vector appears on a line from 'A Cell Divides'.
- Apocalypse How: Aquarius has a variation of a Type 4. It ends with the world being flooded and presumably all land-based-life dying out, but humanity living on as mermaids.
- Bittersweet Ending: Aquarius ends with the world being flooded and the mermaid dying to provide the solution, but humanity manages to live on as mermaids, with the implication being that the original mermaid was reincarnated.
- Book-Ends: Visions ends with the main character discovering that the person who killed him and has been haunting him his entire life is himself from the past. Which occurred in the second track, 'Nocturnal Conspiracy'.
- Concept Album: Aquarius and Visions.
- Continuity Nod: The melody from 'The Path' is repeated throughout The Mountain.
- Downer Ending: Visions.
- Early Installment Weirdness: Ross occasionally makes use of death growls on the demo and Aquarius. When the growls briefly returned for a verse of 'The Architect', they were done by a guest vocalist (although Ross still does them live).
- Epic Instrumental Opener: Used VERY frequently, especially in their longer songs.
- Epic Rocking: The average length of their songs currently stands at 8:44. Each album has several songs that hit above the 10-minute mark:
- Enter the 5th Dimension has 'Blind' (11:40), 'Sleeping Through the Wake' (12:07), and 'Snow' (13:11).
- Aquarius has 'The Point of No Return' (11:27), 'Streams' (10:14), 'Aquarium' (10:40), and 'Celestial Exilir' (16:56).
- Visions has 'Nocturnal Conspiracy' (13:08) and 'Visions' (22:25).
- The Mountain has 'Falling Back to Earth' (11:51) and 'Pareidolia' (10:51).
- Restoration has 'Crystallised' (19:22)
- Affinity only has 'The Architect' (15:40) above ten minutes, but '1985' (9:09) and 'Bound By Gravity' (9:29) come close.
- Vector has 'Veil' (12:35)
- There's also the 22-minute 'Aquamedley' on their live album, which combines parts of 6 of the seven songs on their debut album into one epic track.
- Fading into the Next Song: Aquarius and Visions, naturally, being Rock Operas. The Mountain also has 'The Path' fading into 'Atlas Stone'.
- Icarus Allusion: 'Falling Back to Earth'.
- Instrumentals: 'Premonition', 'Portals', 'Nil by Mouth', and the bonus track 'The Path Unbeaten'.
- Lighter and Softer: The Mountain is a subdued version of this. It still has quite a few heavy songs, but as a whole the album is lighter than the last two.
- Lonely Piano Piece: 'As Death Embraces'.
- Mohs Scale of Rock and Metal Hardness: Visions and Aquarius are usually around a 7 or 8, The Mountain is around a 6 or 7, with a few songs hitting 8. Some songs can get as heavy as 9 (i.e. the growled parts of Aquarius and the heavier parts of 'Falling Back to Earth'), or as low as a 1 ('As Death Embraces').
- Mind Screw: Visions.
- Murder Ballad: 'Nocturnal Conspiracy' and 'Visions' have shades of this.
- Neoclassical Punk Zydeco Rockabilly: They've incorporated elements of Progressive Metal, Progressive Rock, Folk, Jazz, Film Scores, A Cappella, and Glitch Hop in their music. Sometimes within one song.
- Our Mermaids Are Different: The mermaid in Aquarius is a mutant.
- Rock Opera: The band has two to this date:
- Aquarius is about a fisherman who discovers a mermaid, sells it to the local carnival, and eventually discovers that her blood is the only thing that can save them from a global flood.
- Visions is about a young boy who has a vision of his own death, and spends the rest of his life trying to avoid his death and kill the man responsible for it.
- Shoot the Shaggy Dog: Visions
- Soprano and Gravel: Ross Jennings provides a one-man version of this on Aquarius and the demo Enter the 5th Dimension, going from his usual tenor to death growls at the drop of a hat.
- Spoken Word in Music: Used at the beginning of the song 'Visions'.
- Surprisingly Gentle Song: 'As Death Embraces' and 'The Path', which are mostly just piano and vocals.
- Tomato in the Mirror: The protagonist of Visions turns out to be the killer that haunted his entire life.
- 20 Minutes into the Future: Aquarius is set sometime towards the end of the 22nd century.