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| Gender | Male |
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| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Composer |
| Location | Kansas City, Kansas, United States |
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| Introduction | Ricks works to date cover a wide and diverse spectrum of musical types embodying both conservative elements and radical innovations. Mr Strunk originated the kaleidoscopic music method in the late 1970's. It is essentially a way to make Cubist music in any genre. His purpose to build bridges between the fragmented orientations of listeners. This kaleidoscopic music method was originated by Mr. Strunk. In the early '90's Mr. Strunk was diagnosed with a severely functionally debilitating illness and his career seemed over. Yet even with being beset with both his illness, and being homeless for quite a number of months at several different times during this past decade, he continued to compose by gaining access to pianos in area churches. Much of the music he wrote during these difficult times reflects the beauty and joy of life rather than of only focusing on his suffering, and speaks to the heart, with substantive meaning for the mind, of one man's triumph of hope persevering over despair. To Date, Mr. Strunk has composed over 800 musical compositions. |
| Interests | I am a serious composer specializing in visual music synthesis; plus an active, adventurous, free-thinking person who enjoys reconnecting with old friends, meeting new people and having good conversations. Theoretical physics, Visual arts, Vincent van Gogh, Mark Rothko, Rene Magritte, Jackson Pollock, Nicolas Poussin paintings, Gustav Klimt, Art of Eunice Strunk, Architecture, Antiques, Nature, Arts, Conversation, Cafes, Films, Parks, Walking, Beaches, Horseback Riding, Electronic Cigarettes, Computer Gaming, Baldur's Gate, Diablo, Neverwinter Nights, Lord of the Rings Online, Star Trek Online, Canoeing, Swimming pool, Ping Pong, Pool billiards, Museums, Diablo 2, Camping, EverQuest, Fishing, Computers, Greek and Roman Mythology, Indian cuisine, Chinese cuisine, Mexican cuisine and 62 More |
| Favorite Movies | Frank Capra, Max von Sydow, U&I Artists, Virtual Vacations, Just Visiting, Moonstruck, Halle Berry, Kristin Kreuk, Veronica Lake, I Married a Witch, Clint Eastwood, The Outlaw Josey Wales, Key Largo, The Man Who Knew Too Little, Margaret Hamilton, Sophia Loren, Anna Magnani, Virginia Mayo, Mercedes McCambridge, Dorothy Malone, Hattie McDaniel, Agnes Moorehead, Patrick McGoohan, Errol Flynn, Peter Finch, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Buddy Ebsen, Jimmy Durante, Kirk Douglas, James Dean, Sammy Davis, Jr., Tony Curtis, Joseph Cotten, Gary Cooper, Ronald Colman, Montgomery Clift, Charles Chaplin, Lon Chaney, Jr., Lon Chaney, Sr., John Carradine, James Cagney, Richard Burton, George Burns, Yul Brynner, Lloyd Bridges, Walter Brennan, Marlon Brando, Ray Bolger, Humphrey Bogart, Milton Berle, Belinda Bauer, The Lost Boys, Where the Boys Are, Beach Blanket Bingo, Babes on Broadway, Babes in Toyland, Annie Get Your Gun, Zelig, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, The Blues Brothers, The Absent-Minded Professor, Tammy and the Bachelor, Stripes, Start the Revolution Without Me, Sleeper, Silver Streak, Risky Business, Repo Man, Raising Arizona, Private Benjamin, Pride and Prejudice, Police Academy, Blazing Saddles, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Big, Beverly Hills Cop, Being There, Beetlejuice, The Uninvited (1944), The Wolf Man, My Man Godfrey, It Happened One Night, Ball of Fire, Miracle on 34th Street, It's a Wonderful Life, Wake Me When It's Over (1960), A Rage to Live, The Oscar, The Mountain, The Last Gangster, Enchanted Cottage, Death Takes a Holiday and 715 more |
| Favorite Music | Mahler, Handel, Brahms, Charles Ives, Olivier Messiaen, Pauline Oliveros, Steve Reich, Shakuhachi, Paul Pena, The Kingston Trio, Ambient music, Aphrodite's Child, MFSB, Amy Grant, John Coltrane, Carlos Santana, John Michael Talbot, Albert Ayler, Firesign Theater, Twila Paris, Point of Grace, Folk music, Fusion jazz, Blues, Jazz, Thelonious Monk, Sun Ra, Ray Charles, Nat King Cole, Miles Davis, Maynard Ferguson, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Free jazz, Sonny Rollins, Scott Joplin, Ron Carter, Louis Armstrong, Lester Young, Jaco Pastorius, Josquin des Prez, Johannes Ockeghem, Henry Purcell, David Munrow, Vivaldi, Pachelbel, William Byrd, Beethoven, J. S. Bach, Alvin Lucier, Bartok, Charles Wuorinen, Charles Dodge, Debussy, The Mothers of Invention, Gershwin, Erik Satie, György Ligeti, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Robert Ashley, Roy Harris, Barber, William Bolcom, Prokofiev, William Schuman, Iannis Xenakis, Vincent Persichetti, John Adams, Laurie Spiegal, Bell Labs, Annea Lockwood, Laurie Anderson, Ruth Anderson, Ravi Shankar, Balinese gamelan, Koto, Tibetan Bells, Ethnocology Music, Charlie "Bird" Parker, Billie Holiday, Charles Mingus, Clifford Brown, Clifford Brown & Max Roach, Benny Goodman, The Association, Hearts of Space, Fripp & Eno, Mike Oldfield, Tangerine Dream, Tom Waits, Tommy Bolin, U2, Vangelis, Yes, The Turtles, The Proclaimers, The Who, The Byrds, Elton John, Todd Rundgren, The Kinks, The Beach Boys, The Hollies, The Yardbirds, Three Dog Night, The Mamas & the Papas, The Monkees, Moody Blues, The Nice, The Carpenters, The Guess Who, The Animals, The 5th Dimension, The Beatles, The Buckinghams, Sex Pistols, Simon & Garfunkel, Soft Machine, Steppenwolf, Stevie Nicks, Sting, Egg, Randy Newman, REO Speedwagon, River Cow Orchestra, Robert Fripp, Pink Floyd, KRAFTWERK, Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers, King Crimson, Badfinger, The Grass Roots, The Lovin' Spoonful, Fred Frith, Diana Ross And The Supremes and & 344 more |
| Favorite Books | T.S. Eliot, Ursula K. Le Guin, JRR Tolkien, Greek Mythology, Folk and Fairy Tales, Voltaire, Alan Watts, Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, Norse Mythology, Martin Buber, E.E. Cummings, L. Frank Baum, Thoreau, Samuel Beckett, Raymond E. Feist, Mark Twain, Ray Bradbury, Edgar Allen Poe, Frederick Pohl, Nietzsche, Erich Fromm, Buckminster Fuller, Carl Jung, Kierkegaard, Joseph Campbell, Carlos Castaneda, René Descartes, Loren Eiseley, Sir Francis Bacon, Baba Ram Dass, St Augustine, Aristotle, Tennessee Williams, Thornton Wilder, August Strindberg, Sophocles, Neil Simon, Shakespeare, Eugene O'Neill, Arthur R. Miller, Emanuel Swedenborg, Sigmund Freud, Henrik Ibsen, George M. Cohan, Euripides, Plato, George R. R. Martin, Jean Cocteau, Aristophanes, Aeschylus, Socrates, Yeats, Frederick S. Perls, William Wordsworth, Walt Whitman, Dylan Thomas, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Ezra Pound, Alexander Pope, John Milton, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Christina Rossetti, Percy Shelley, Sara Teasdale, John Masefield, Lord Byron, Longfellow, Omar Khayyám, John Keats, Ben Jonson, Langston Hughes, A. E. Housman, Homer, Robert Frost, Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Donne, Emily Dickinson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, William Blake, Roger Zelazny, Oscar Wilde, H G Wells, Kurt Vonnegut, Jules Verne, Jonathan Swift, Bram Stoker, Robert Louis Stevenson, Mary Shelley, George Bernard Shaw, Jean-Paul Sartre, George Orwell, Andre Norton, Malcolm Lowry, Rudyard Kipling, Kafka, James Joyce, Henry James, Herman Hesse, Ernest Hemingway, Joseph Heller, Robert A. Heinlein, The Brothers Grimm, Oliver Goldsmith, Goethe, André Gide, Ian Fleming, Alexandre Dumas, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Dostoevsky, Charles Dickens, Philip K. Dick, Joseph Conrad, John Bunyan, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Camus, Lewis Carroll, Emily Bronte, Jane Austen, Issac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Hans Christian Andersen, Louisa May Alcott, Aesop's Fablesand & 111 more |