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Paul Schütze (born 1 May 1958) is an Australian artist resident in
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. Over thirty years his work has spanned composition, performance, installation, video, printmaking and photography.


Biography

Schütze was born in
Melbourne Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a met ...
, Australia. He spent his childhood painting and drawing but left Caulfield Institute after only two months of an Arts Foundation Course to work in a factory. There he earned the money to buy his first electronic musical equipment. In 1979 he spent several months travelling and ended up in London where he immersed himself in concerts, museums and galleries. Returning to Melbourne he formed the improvising group Laughing Hands with Gordon Harvey, Ian Russell and Paul Widdicombe. The group existed in several forms until disbanding in 1982. Schütze spent the next decade writing scores for films. His first feature soundtrack, ''The Tale of Ruby Rose'' (1987), won the
Australian Film Institute Award The Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards, known as the AACTA Awards, are presented annually by the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA). The awards recognise excellence in the film and television industry ...
for Best original Music Score. During this period Schütze lectured on film sound at both Swinburne Institute and AFTRS and worked as a film critic both in print and on national radio. In collaboration with Michael Trudgeon, Anthony Kitchener and Dominic Lowe, Schütze curated and featured in ''Deus Ex Machina'', an exhibition-publication at
Monash University Monash University () is a public research university based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Named for prominent World War I general Sir John Monash, it was founded in 1958 and is the second oldest university in the state. The university h ...
in 1989. This was to be his first sound installation and subsequently his first solo album. In 1992, Schütze re-located to London during a period of particular fertility in the independent music scene, and he released nearly thirty albums of original works over the next decade. Schütze contributed writings to ''
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'', and performed his music in Europe, Scandinavia and Japan, often with regular collaborator Simon Hopkins. In 1996, he formed improvising super-group Phantom City with
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,
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, Dirk Wachtelaer at its core, with Alex Buess,
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and
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as guest collaborators. In 2000, Schütze was invited to exhibit in Sonic Boom at the
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London by curator
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. The same year he received a large commission for a permanent installation work for
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and a second for a massive twenty-two screen audio-video work at the Gasometer in Oberhausen, Germany. He also contributed a sound work to
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's Eclipse event/publication in
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. In 2002, Schütze began working with
Alan Cristea Gallery Cristea Roberts Gallery, formerly Alan Cristea Gallery, is a commercial gallery in central London that was founded by Alan Cristea in 1995. David Cleaton-Roberts, Helen Waters and Kathleen Dempsey are also senior directors. Cristea Roberts Gallery ...
London. In 2003, his first solo show, ''Vertical Memory'', opened at ACG. The show included prints, video, sound and a huge wall work in which the whole of
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's novel ''Topology of A Phantom City'', was rendered as a continuous plane of silver text. In 2004, Stiftelsen 314 in Bergen, Norway mounted his solo show ''Garden of Instruments''. This was the next stage in a large-scale project that began in 1997 with the release of Schutze's spoken architectural opera ''Second Site'' and continued with a series of lightboxes for ACG also in 2004. This project, which is still ongoing, now has its own site. In 2006, Schütze began to work with Galleria Estiarte in Madrid showing prints, videos and lightboxes. His work is also shown at the Alan Cristea Gallery in London. Following Schütze's two residencies at Cité des Arts in Paris making photographs, a solo show of photography – ''Twilight Science'' – opened in London at Alan Cristea Gallery in May 2008. An ongoing commission (initiated in 1999) to make a sound work for James Turrell's
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has involved several research trips and has now been completed as a five-hour installation piece in Dolby Surround. In 2011, Schütze launched dressingtheair.com, an open access online platform for multisensory creativity.


Discography


Studio albums

* ''
Deus Ex Machina ''Deus ex machina'' ( , ; plural: ''dei ex machina''; English "god out of the machine") is a plot device whereby a seemingly unsolvable problem in a story is suddenly and abruptly resolved by an unexpected and unlikely occurrence. Its function ...
'' (1989) * '' The Annihilating Angel; Or, The Surface of the World'' (1990) * '' New Maps of Hell'' (1992) * ''New Maps of Hell II: The Rapture of Metals'' (1993) * '' The Surgery of Touch'' (1994) * '' Apart'' (1995) * '' Abysmal Evenings'' (1996) * '' Nine Songs From the Garden of Welcome Lies'' (1997) * ''Second Site: 27°37'35" N 77°13'05" E'' (1997) * ''Stateless'' (1997) Schütze's contribution to ''Driftworks'' * ''Third Site'' (1999) * ''The Gazing Engine'' (1999) * ''Writing on Water: Twenty-two Dreams Recalled'' (2001) * ''Seven Degrees Live'' (2002) * ''Plasma Falls'' (2002) * ''Dressing The Air'' (2002) * ''The Sky Torn Apart'' (2018)


Released under a pseudonym

* '' More Beautiful Human Life!'' (1994) as Uzect Plaush * '' Vertical Memory'' (1995) as Seed


Soundtrack albums

* '' Regard: Music by Film'' (1991) * '' Isabelle Eberhardt: The Oblivion Seeker'' (1994)


Collaboration albums

* ''Narratives: Music for Fiction'' (1996) with Voice of Eye & Robert Rich * '' Site Anubis'' (1996) with Phantom City * ''
Fell A fell (from Old Norse ''fell'', ''fjall'', "mountain"Falk and Torp (2006:161).) is a high and barren landscape feature, such as a mountain or moor-covered hill. The term is most often employed in Fennoscandia, Iceland, the Isle of Man, pa ...
'' (1996) with Andrew Hulme * ''The Ulm Concert'' (1997) with Simon Hopkins * '' Shiva Recoil: Live/Unlive'' (1997) with Phantom City * ''Driftworks'' (1997) with Thomas Koner, Nijiumu,
Pauline Oliveros Pauline Oliveros (May 30, 1932 – November 24, 2016) was an American composer, accordionist and a central figure in the development of post-war experimental and electronic music. She was a founding member of the San Francisco Tape Music Cente ...
&
Randy Raine-Reusch Randy Raine-Reusch (born 1952) is a Canadian composer, performer, improviser, and multi-instrumentalist specializing in New and Experimental Music for instruments from around the world, particularly those from East and Southeast Asia. Research ...
* ''Soundwork 01'' (2009) with Andrew Hulme * ''Third Site Live'' (2010) with Raoul Bjorkenheim, Simon Hopkins &
Clive Bell Arthur Clive Heward Bell (16 September 1881 – 17 September 1964) was an English art critic, associated with formalism and the Bloomsbury Group. He developed the art theory known as significant form. Biography Origins Bell was born in East S ...
* ''Live Horbar-Hamburg Dec 2009'' (2010) with Simon Hopkins


Compilation albums

* ''Green Evil: Stray Particles 1982-1996'' (1998) * '' Sound Paintings'' (1998)


References


External links


Paul Schütze home pagePaul Schütze - Alan Cristea Gallery Garden of Instruments websiteDiscogs listing
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