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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 Sound
and Music.
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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
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