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Paul
Ramsay:
'Inlets'
• RMusic 001
- release date
24th May 2004 |
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Paul
Ramsay has been interested in music and especially
the album as a cultural unit, from a very early age. After writing
and recording music in his teens he went on to train as a recording
engineer and briefly, a record-cutting engineer. Feeling that
he was the wrong side of the mixing desk, Paul became a member
of various bands including 'PGRS' (1 album: 'Photographs of
Sound' 1979) and the Southampton-based improvising music quintet
'The Omega Ensemble'.
Additional interest in the visual arts led to a degree in Visual
and Performing Arts at Brighton where he composed pieces for
dance, developed new strategies for painting and produced video
installation work. A determined self-publishist, after graduating
Paul issued a series of artist's bookworks on his imprint Alembic
Books. From 1993-6 Paul began to develop a series of multimedia
works using image, text and music, including an indeterminate
compositional system entitled Parallel Music or 'PMusic'. Chameleon
Lectra was initially conceived purely as an outlet for this
work but eventually evolved into something broader. PR currently
lectures in Fine Art (Time-Based and Digital) at the University
of Plymouth and is a member of both Rhizome
and the Sonic Arts
Network.
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'Inlets' (RMusic 001) is Paul's first CD album
with Motile, and is described as being 'in the territory between
classical and experimental'.
• Paul Ramsay has
a blog 'PRs
Album', and a website at www.paulramsay.co.uk
Recent
sound works include 'Frictional Account' exhibited in 'Works
Of Friction' (with artist Steve Thorpe; 'Mobile
Dawn In An Old World Garden' installed at the Anti-Parallel
show, University of Exeter and 'etude 23' premiered as part
of the Sound
and Film (Voices Festival) in Plymouth on 24th February
2008. A version of 'etude 23' can be found in Singles.
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Paul
Ramsay