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Paul
Ramsay:
'Inlets'
• RMusic 001
released 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), the
Southampton-based improvising music quintet 'The Omega
Ensemble' and the guitar duo 'Four Point Paint' with Robin Watts.
Interest in the visual arts led to a degree
in Visual and Performing Arts at Brighton Polytechnic where he composed
pieces for dance, developed new strategies for painting
and produced video installation work. After graduating in 1990 Paul issued a series of artist's bookworks
on his imprint Alembic Books (relaunched in July 2013). From 1993-6 he
developed a series of multimedia works using image, text
and music, and an indeterminate compositional system
entitled Parallel Music or 'PMusic'. Chameleon Lectra
was initially conceived purely as an outlet for PMusic pieces
but has evolved into something broader. PR currently
lectures in Fine Art at Plymouth University and is a member of both Rhizome and Sound
and Music.
Sound
works include: 'Frictional Account' exhibited in 'Works
Of Friction' (2007) (with artist Steve Thorpe); 'etude 23' premiered
at the Sound
and Film (Voices Festival) (2008); Consemble (2007-12); 'Mobile
Dawn In An Old World Garden' (2007) and 'An Embroidery of British Birdsong' (2012) both for EGENIS, University of Exeter.
Ongoing projects are: 'Songs of Garden Guitars' and 'MAAKOF' (2015-)
• '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 |
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Paul Ramsay