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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) and 'Mobile
Dawn In An Old World Garden' installed at the Anti-Parallel
show, University of Exeter.
Paul premiered a new 'short' PMusic work 'etude 23'
as part of the Sound
and Film (Voices Festival) in Plymouth on 24th February
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