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16/02/25 new release
Paul Schütze
The Complete Extreme Recordings
1989 - 1992
released on - Kontakt Audio
available from - Bandcamp
The Complete Extreme Recordings
1989 - 1992
released on - Kontakt Audio
available from - Bandcamp
08/07/24 new release
Topology of a Quantum City
released on Aufabwegen
available from Bandcamp
A couple of years back, during a period of frequent relocation, and with no permanent studio set up, I came across the original DAT parts of a project I completed in 1992 just before I moved from Australia to The UK.The sessions for New Maps Of Hell evolved out of a rhythm track I’d built in my studio. I was (and still am) fascinated the twin, revolutionary, 70’s phenomena of electric jazz (Miles, Hancock, Williams, Priester) and Krautrock (Can, Faust, Tangerine Dream). I was trying as a solo artist to navigate a route into these worlds and this single track felt closer than I’d so far got.This rhythm became the foundation for several sessions at the ABC’s studios in Melbourne from which that album emerged. It was the first time I’d assembled a group of players for a solo project and the first time I’d allowed the inevitable element of chance arising from essentially improvised contributions.
Nowadays, armed with Logic and Dropbox, the proposition of high quality multi tracking and mixing contributions from around the globe is comfortably achievable with a laptop the size of a magazine so I fell to rebuilding the central piece from that album from its original component parts, sending that “spine” to the various contributing players and then performing the kind of surgery I’d never had the time or budget to consider three decades earlier.
Daniel’s contributions in particular had a pronounced shaping affect on the piece as it grew. With multiple passes, ingested into the mix as we ping-ponged files for a month or so, each step bought new tonalities and unexpected harmonic light and shade. Dirk’s radical rethinking of the rhythm blew the structure open, inviting multiple levels of dynamic detail. Finally Bill (the only player present on the original recording ) carved a new bass part, providing the elastic anchor that acts as the sensual counterpoint to my machine tempos.
The two additional pieces have a newer origin, one with Philip’s drum parts as the starting impetus around which I constructed a kind of melodic breath, laying multiple guitar lines into counterpoint as Daniel sent them over, the second by atomising and refracting familiar gestures over a rolling machine rhythm Both hold to the sound pallet of my 70’s passions while making full use of current mixing automation and manipulation. I hope they feel like a temporal cross pollination to those familiar with their roots and perhaps a lure into a period of unheard riches to those who’re yet to have that pleasure…
Paul Schütze
Amorgos
2024
released on Aufabwegen
available from Bandcamp
A couple of years back, during a period of frequent relocation, and with no permanent studio set up, I came across the original DAT parts of a project I completed in 1992 just before I moved from Australia to The UK.The sessions for New Maps Of Hell evolved out of a rhythm track I’d built in my studio. I was (and still am) fascinated the twin, revolutionary, 70’s phenomena of electric jazz (Miles, Hancock, Williams, Priester) and Krautrock (Can, Faust, Tangerine Dream). I was trying as a solo artist to navigate a route into these worlds and this single track felt closer than I’d so far got.This rhythm became the foundation for several sessions at the ABC’s studios in Melbourne from which that album emerged. It was the first time I’d assembled a group of players for a solo project and the first time I’d allowed the inevitable element of chance arising from essentially improvised contributions.
Nowadays, armed with Logic and Dropbox, the proposition of high quality multi tracking and mixing contributions from around the globe is comfortably achievable with a laptop the size of a magazine so I fell to rebuilding the central piece from that album from its original component parts, sending that “spine” to the various contributing players and then performing the kind of surgery I’d never had the time or budget to consider three decades earlier.
Daniel’s contributions in particular had a pronounced shaping affect on the piece as it grew. With multiple passes, ingested into the mix as we ping-ponged files for a month or so, each step bought new tonalities and unexpected harmonic light and shade. Dirk’s radical rethinking of the rhythm blew the structure open, inviting multiple levels of dynamic detail. Finally Bill (the only player present on the original recording ) carved a new bass part, providing the elastic anchor that acts as the sensual counterpoint to my machine tempos.
The two additional pieces have a newer origin, one with Philip’s drum parts as the starting impetus around which I constructed a kind of melodic breath, laying multiple guitar lines into counterpoint as Daniel sent them over, the second by atomising and refracting familiar gestures over a rolling machine rhythm Both hold to the sound pallet of my 70’s passions while making full use of current mixing automation and manipulation. I hope they feel like a temporal cross pollination to those familiar with their roots and perhaps a lure into a period of unheard riches to those who’re yet to have that pleasure…
Paul Schütze
Amorgos
2024
12/03/24 new release
LEDGE - 1980,
DOG PHOTOS - 1981,
EE:THE WELDER'S BIBLE 2CD - 1981,
THE LUXURY OF HORNS - 1982,
NIGHTS - 1983,
TEMPORAL ARCHEOLOGY: UNRELEASED MANIPULATION 1980 X 2023
"Laughing Hands had a relatively brief life as a band but continue to intrigue the global audience. They were an improvisation group using tapes, synthesisers, guitar and hand percussion much of which was then treated through the synthesisers, producing their soft, insistent and rhythmic sound."
"Members of Melbourne-based seminal improvising experimental group Laughing Hands and its alter ego Invisible College have been Paul Schütze, Gordon Harvey, Ian Russell and Paul Widdicombe.Their spectrally shaded instrumental post-punk-by-way-of-post-industrial constructs were effectively post rock before the genre existed.
The group continued in several permutations until disbanding in 1982. They have released two vinyl albums on their own Adhesive Label: Ledge - 1980 and Dog Photos - 1981, plus one cassette which is part of this box EE-The Welder's Bible - 1981, as well as two cassettes on the Australian tape-label Rash (Decisions): Nights - 1982,
(under the pseudonym of Invisible College) : The Luxury of Horns -1981/82, both also part of this box-set.
The final disc here is a montage of surviving "rehearsal" tapes digitally collaged and manipulated by Paul Schütze especially for this release. This completes the picture of everything we know to be available by way of recordings from this band.
While the esoteric Eno-by-way-of-Dome post punk instrumental constructs doled out across their two LP's are some of the most mesmerizing examples of this sort, their work on the tape-only releases finds them exploring a decidedly more shrouded, nocturnal and formally abstract dimension of their universe."
DOG PHOTOS - 1981,
EE:THE WELDER'S BIBLE 2CD - 1981,
THE LUXURY OF HORNS - 1982,
NIGHTS - 1983,
TEMPORAL ARCHEOLOGY: UNRELEASED MANIPULATION 1980 X 2023
"Laughing Hands had a relatively brief life as a band but continue to intrigue the global audience. They were an improvisation group using tapes, synthesisers, guitar and hand percussion much of which was then treated through the synthesisers, producing their soft, insistent and rhythmic sound."
"Members of Melbourne-based seminal improvising experimental group Laughing Hands and its alter ego Invisible College have been Paul Schütze, Gordon Harvey, Ian Russell and Paul Widdicombe.Their spectrally shaded instrumental post-punk-by-way-of-post-industrial constructs were effectively post rock before the genre existed.
The group continued in several permutations until disbanding in 1982. They have released two vinyl albums on their own Adhesive Label: Ledge - 1980 and Dog Photos - 1981, plus one cassette which is part of this box EE-The Welder's Bible - 1981, as well as two cassettes on the Australian tape-label Rash (Decisions): Nights - 1982,
(under the pseudonym of Invisible College) : The Luxury of Horns -1981/82, both also part of this box-set.
The final disc here is a montage of surviving "rehearsal" tapes digitally collaged and manipulated by Paul Schütze especially for this release. This completes the picture of everything we know to be available by way of recordings from this band.
While the esoteric Eno-by-way-of-Dome post punk instrumental constructs doled out across their two LP's are some of the most mesmerizing examples of this sort, their work on the tape-only releases finds them exploring a decidedly more shrouded, nocturnal and formally abstract dimension of their universe."
12/11/21 new release
Press release -
Australian experimental / industrial / ambient artist Paul Schütze collects career highlights on The Second Law, a compilation of equally gritty and beautiful key works from the 80’s and 90’s, remastered and available for the first time on vinyl.
A boundless creative spirit, Paul Schütze has worked for over forty years as a musician, photographer, visual artist and perfumer. He has exhibited at institutions such as the Hayward Gallery, the V&A and Madrid’s Arco, held residencies at the Cité des Arts in Paris and has works in collections worldwide. He has collaborated with musicians from Jah Wobble to Toshinori Kondo, from Bill Laswell to David Toop, and worked both as a filmscore composer and music critic in print.
A new, remastered compilation of key works from Schütze’s catalogue, The Second Law, collates music from various periods and albums. Represented here are tracks from 1990’s The Annihilating Angel, an album of blissed-out fourth-world mystery; from the transcendent homage to traditional Indonesian gamelan music The Rapture of Metals (1993); from the ethereal, spiritual, Nino Rota-esque melancholy of 1991’s Regard: Music by Film. It is occasionally dark, industrial and begrimed; occasionally paradisiacal and breathtakingly elegant. There are works of celestial, astronomic grandeur alongside microscopically detailed miniatures. Empty, deserted spaces of man-made abandonment contrast with studies of ornate natural beauty.
released on Phantomlimb vinyl and digital
Bandcamp
label management - James Vela
Australian experimental / industrial / ambient artist Paul Schütze collects career highlights on The Second Law, a compilation of equally gritty and beautiful key works from the 80’s and 90’s, remastered and available for the first time on vinyl.
A boundless creative spirit, Paul Schütze has worked for over forty years as a musician, photographer, visual artist and perfumer. He has exhibited at institutions such as the Hayward Gallery, the V&A and Madrid’s Arco, held residencies at the Cité des Arts in Paris and has works in collections worldwide. He has collaborated with musicians from Jah Wobble to Toshinori Kondo, from Bill Laswell to David Toop, and worked both as a filmscore composer and music critic in print.
A new, remastered compilation of key works from Schütze’s catalogue, The Second Law, collates music from various periods and albums. Represented here are tracks from 1990’s The Annihilating Angel, an album of blissed-out fourth-world mystery; from the transcendent homage to traditional Indonesian gamelan music The Rapture of Metals (1993); from the ethereal, spiritual, Nino Rota-esque melancholy of 1991’s Regard: Music by Film. It is occasionally dark, industrial and begrimed; occasionally paradisiacal and breathtakingly elegant. There are works of celestial, astronomic grandeur alongside microscopically detailed miniatures. Empty, deserted spaces of man-made abandonment contrast with studies of ornate natural beauty.
released on Phantomlimb vinyl and digital
Bandcamp
label management - James Vela
12/05/20 new album release
the score to 2018s video and fragrance installation piece is now available from the lovely folk at Aufabwegen
featuring Ko Ishikawa on sho, Daniel Pennie on guitars, Raoul Björkenheim on electric cello and Paul Schütze on electronics.
featuring Ko Ishikawa on sho, Daniel Pennie on guitars, Raoul Björkenheim on electric cello and Paul Schütze on electronics.
13/14/10/18 installation event: sound, video, fragrance
installation view of without thought at Mackintosh Lane - photo courtesy of Kevin Pollard.
22/03/18 new album release
on April the 30th, Italian label Glacial Movements will release The Sky Torn Apart.
a new work commissioned especially for the label.
The sky tore apart and the sun curdled like a diseased eye.
Below, where once a continent of ice spanned the horizon,
there lay nothing but a vast expanding mirror, implacable and silent.
For days, clouds of flying creatures scoured it’s surface for purchase
before falling exhausted into their own reflections.
Paul Schütze, London 2018
a new work commissioned especially for the label.
The sky tore apart and the sun curdled like a diseased eye.
Below, where once a continent of ice spanned the horizon,
there lay nothing but a vast expanding mirror, implacable and silent.
For days, clouds of flying creatures scoured it’s surface for purchase
before falling exhausted into their own reflections.
Paul Schütze, London 2018
25/11/17 two new perfumes
Villa M: inspired by Curzio Malaparte’s astonishing cliff top home on the island of Capri, Villa M situates the wearer on the sun drenched terrace watching the sea and sky kiss at an azure horizon.
flanked at its back by the island’s lush vegetation and cooled by the salted spray of the sea below, Villa M dreams at the meeting point between land, sky and sea.
notes: ambergris, cedar, cyclamen, hay, mimosa, pink pepper, seaweed
Cuadra: invoking the brilliantly hued modernist masterpiece of Mexican architect Luis Barragan: Cuadra San Cristobal, a horse ranch built around geometric reflecting pools and the fountains which feed them. Cuadra is at once exotic and intimate, open yet embracing. Juxtaposing the architect’s hot signature colours with the vast reflected skies of Mexico, Cuadra is passion contained and refined.
notes: bay, bergamot, coffee, eaglewood, hay, sandalwood, jasmine, oak moss, tobacco
Paul Schütze Perfume
22/06/16 we have lift-off
on May 25th we launched Paul Schütze Perfume
the three fragrances are now available in London from Bloom Perfumery and Roullier White.
further stockists to be announced both in the UK and beyond.
the three fragrances are now available in London from Bloom Perfumery and Roullier White.
further stockists to be announced both in the UK and beyond.
04/03/16 Paul Schütze Perfume - launch imminent
after creating olfactory elements for installations and objects, and after a barrage of requests for personal fragrance, Paul Schütze Perfume will launch a trio of wearable olfactory artworks later this month
each describes a moment recalled by the artist for its unique particularity.
one, the bloom of damaged trees after a storm, one a cloud of sublime sounds transmuted to perfume and one the chance union of fleeting aromas in the artist's Paris studio
all three will be available through a variety of stockists to be announced soon.
each describes a moment recalled by the artist for its unique particularity.
one, the bloom of damaged trees after a storm, one a cloud of sublime sounds transmuted to perfume and one the chance union of fleeting aromas in the artist's Paris studio
all three will be available through a variety of stockists to be announced soon.
06/06/15 a new chapter
this April, Paul Schütze Perfume will be launched
three eau de parfums forming an olfactory triptych depicting three distinct, located moments
three eau de parfums forming an olfactory triptych depicting three distinct, located moments
04/04/15 Art And Olfaction Awards finalist
delighted to report that In Libro De Tenebris, the perfume I designed for last year's Silent Surface exhibition at Maggs Gallery has made the finals in the experimental category of the 2015 Art And Olfaction Awards.
25/02/14 in libro de tenebris - a perfumed book
produced specially for the silent surface exhibition at Maggs Bros. Gallery, in libro de tenebris is an entirely black book each page of which has been scented with a perfume of the same name. Produced in an edition of 20 signed and numbered copies only it is available here.
21/02/14 paper - a photo book
paper is a full colour, casebound book with dust jacket
there are 85 pages of photographs.
it is limited to an edition of 40 signed and numbered copies
there are 85 pages of photographs.
it is limited to an edition of 40 signed and numbered copies
31/01/14 silent surface - exhibition
08/04/13 Laughing Hands - Tape Works 1981-1982
Vinyl On Demand have released a very beautiful 4LP box-set of rare Laughing Hands recordings from the 1980s.
the material within was only available previously on limited cassette format
the box also includes a specially commissioned DVD featuring two video works made to accompany the music from the 1982 release Nights. Available here.
“Listening back over these recordings, teased skillfully from the few remaining cassettes by VOD’s engineers I am forced to wonder whether perhaps, as artists we spend our time re-discovering solutions to the same creative problems over and over. I hear things in these pieces (many of which I had entirely forgotten) that offer solutions to problems I am dealing with in my own works today. Suddenly I realize I knew the answers thirty years ago! I guess if it is true that artists remake the same work over and over then perhaps we are doomed to confront the same creative dilemmas repeatedly having inexplicably mislaid the effective solutions of our own manufacture.” Paul Schütze,
the material within was only available previously on limited cassette format
the box also includes a specially commissioned DVD featuring two video works made to accompany the music from the 1982 release Nights. Available here.
“Listening back over these recordings, teased skillfully from the few remaining cassettes by VOD’s engineers I am forced to wonder whether perhaps, as artists we spend our time re-discovering solutions to the same creative problems over and over. I hear things in these pieces (many of which I had entirely forgotten) that offer solutions to problems I am dealing with in my own works today. Suddenly I realize I knew the answers thirty years ago! I guess if it is true that artists remake the same work over and over then perhaps we are doomed to confront the same creative dilemmas repeatedly having inexplicably mislaid the effective solutions of our own manufacture.” Paul Schütze,
04/07/12 new photo works
Silent Engine IX 2012
15/02/12 pop-up exhibition, prints-sound-scent
Twilight Science editions will present a Pop-up exhibition from the 12th -17th of March 2012 in London: Eighteen editioned prints, each designed to accompany a different musical work. The prints will be shown with a perpetual mix of said music and a scent diffusion courtesy of Editions De Parfums Frederic Malle. Works will be available to order as signed, numbered archival ink-jet prints. Venue details and dates below:
09/01/12 Schütze+Hopkins - new studio album
New studio album contrasting abstract electronica, rhythmic multi-instrumental pieces and soundscapes.
Paul Schütze: keyboards & electronics , Simon Hopkins: guitar & atmospheres.
released 05 January 2012
Paul Schütze: keyboards & electronics , Simon Hopkins: guitar & atmospheres.
released 05 January 2012
02/01/12 Schütze + Hopkins - new release
a composite of recordings made at concerts between 1998 and 2001 in Brussels, Nantes, Bologna, Torino and London. Released 01 December 2011
Paul Schütze: electronics, keyboards, vibraphone, Simon Hopkins: guitar
guest appearances from: Raoul Björkenheim: guitar, Clive Bell: woodwinds, Dirk Wachtelaer: percussion
Paul Schütze: electronics, keyboards, vibraphone, Simon Hopkins: guitar
guest appearances from: Raoul Björkenheim: guitar, Clive Bell: woodwinds, Dirk Wachtelaer: percussion
04/12/11 NAPE - new musical project
NAPE is a new musical collaboration with a shifting set of contributors. Taking its inspiration as much from the language of Math and Death Metal as the ever present foundations of jazz and electronica, NAPE explores a more violent, guitar-driven sonic territory than previous projects. We hope this is the first of many broadcasts from what we see as music's most exciting frontier. Indeed the second album is now well underway and due around April 2012.
NAPE's first album The Void Yukio is now available exclusively as a Hi Resolution download from Twilight Science.
NAPE's first album The Void Yukio is now available exclusively as a Hi Resolution download from Twilight Science.
21/02/11 3 new photo series
a night dissolved 2009
breach 2010
without thought 2011
7/06/10 Sea Fever: from Turner to Today
Southampton City Art Gallery presents Sea Fever: From Turner To Today curated by
Helen Walters and Alice Workman. 14th May - 5th of September 2010.
The exhibition features works by artists including Vija Celmins, John Constable, Richard Decon, Paul Delvaux, Bill Fontana, Barbara Hepworth, Augustus John, Richard Long, Hiroshi Sugimoto, J.M.W Turner. The exhibition includes Paul Schütze's video work Still: Life pictured above.
Helen Walters and Alice Workman. 14th May - 5th of September 2010.
The exhibition features works by artists including Vija Celmins, John Constable, Richard Decon, Paul Delvaux, Bill Fontana, Barbara Hepworth, Augustus John, Richard Long, Hiroshi Sugimoto, J.M.W Turner. The exhibition includes Paul Schütze's video work Still: Life pictured above.
2/05/2010 schütze+hopkins - live in hamburg - free download
free download of the performance at Hamburg's excellent Hörbar on the 28th of December
2009. Many thanks to Robert Osten and all who braved the freezing winds to attend.
2009. Many thanks to Robert Osten and all who braved the freezing winds to attend.
14/02/2010 third site live - free download
third site was released in 1999 by Ryko Disc
the installation work of the same name featured in Sonic Boom at the Hayward Gallery London in the year 2000
the music has only been performed twice and this release documents the second of those
concerts
recorded during the Impact Festival in Utrecht in 1999, the line-up here is the same as that on the original release with only Thomas Köner's voice being flown in
from tape
we have had to edit around some of the more exuberant contributions from the audience but this is essentially as heard on the night
we are pleased to make this recording available as a free download here on the site
the installation work of the same name featured in Sonic Boom at the Hayward Gallery London in the year 2000
the music has only been performed twice and this release documents the second of those
concerts
recorded during the Impact Festival in Utrecht in 1999, the line-up here is the same as that on the original release with only Thomas Köner's voice being flown in
from tape
we have had to edit around some of the more exuberant contributions from the audience but this is essentially as heard on the night
we are pleased to make this recording available as a free download here on the site
09/11/2009 25 years of sound - online print editions
celebrating 25 years since the release of Deus Ex Machina, the first solo soundwork
released by Paul Schütze, we have editioned a series of 18 prints selected from the newly designed online cover art.
the prints are available online exclusively from the print shop
here at paulschutze.com
shown above are new maps of hell l & ll.
released by Paul Schütze, we have editioned a series of 18 prints selected from the newly designed online cover art.
the prints are available online exclusively from the print shop
here at paulschutze.com
shown above are new maps of hell l & ll.
21/07/2009 two new releases available online
two new works are now available.
the first is a collaboration between
Paul Schütze and Andrew Hulme of O Yuki Conjugate.
soundworks 01 is the first in a series of releases documenting
their ongoing sound design for film and installation works.
the second new work combines live recordings of two concerts
given in Tokyo and Osaka respectively by Paul Schütze and
Simon Hopkins into one continuous piece.
27/05/2009 complete recorded works available online
the recorded works of Paul Schütze are now available through itunes
many of these recordings were both expensive and difficult to find when originally released so we are pleased to offer them now at uniform rates regardless of your location. For those of you unhappy with the quality of MP3s we are still looking for a reliable high resolution alternative
each of these reissues has new graphics the licenses for the originals having expired.
we will be making new releases available as they are completed
we are also preparing some rare, unreleased archival material for release over the next twelve months.
we will continue periodically to post free downloads on this site
many of these recordings were both expensive and difficult to find when originally released so we are pleased to offer them now at uniform rates regardless of your location. For those of you unhappy with the quality of MP3s we are still looking for a reliable high resolution alternative
each of these reissues has new graphics the licenses for the originals having expired.
we will be making new releases available as they are completed
we are also preparing some rare, unreleased archival material for release over the next twelve months.
we will continue periodically to post free downloads on this site
01/02/09 Matter and Memory in Madrid
An exhibition of recent photographs opens at Estiarte in Madrid. Estiarte will also be showing two lightboxes at ARCO which coincides with the opening of this show. From February the 13th. MAP.
01/02/09 Island Universe in Madrid
Josiah McElheny's Island Universe project opens in Madrid at the Reina Sofia Museum. The group of five sculptural works is installed in the Palacio de Cristal situated in nearby Parque del Retiro while the film collaboration with Paul Schütze is installed on the fourth floor of the Reina Sophia itself. Exhibition runs from the 28th of January to the 30th of March 2009.
14/10/08 new sound-works at White Cube - Hoxton Square
Island Universe - Photo: Todd-White Art Photography
Artist Josiah McElheny's Island Universe at White Cube in Hoxton from the 14th of October to the 15th of November 2008. The exhibition features a film for which Paul Schütze has written a suit of five specially commissioned sound-works structured to illustrate the complex physics underpinning this ambitious project.
24/09/08 Roden music excerpt - free download
03/07/08 Twilight Science installed
22/04/08 catalogue publication
Twilight Science - fully illustrated catalogue with an introduction by John Gray
available from Alan Cristea Gallery, London.
available from Alan Cristea Gallery, London.
21/04/08 new site launched
Finally a complete update and redesign! We are still tweaking and improving elements of
this iteration so please bear with us. Music downloads and video should follow soon.
this iteration so please bear with us. Music downloads and video should follow soon.
20/04/08 Twilight Science
An exhibition of new photographs and lightboxes opens at Alan Cristea Gallery London on May 14th. The photographs explore states of transition both of materiality and perception and demonstrate the mutability of familiar environments and materials.
A fully-illustrated colour catalogue with an introduction by philosopher John Gray will be available from the gallery.
A fully-illustrated colour catalogue with an introduction by philosopher John Gray will be available from the gallery.
18/04/08 no past t-shirt
Specially commissioned by online tshirt store
MoreTvicar this logo takes the
prophetic (for punk itself) slogan "No Future"
and refuses to look back.
MoreTvicar this logo takes the
prophetic (for punk itself) slogan "No Future"
and refuses to look back.
20/03/08 new sound work
After eight years of planning and gestation, several visits to Roden Crater and conversations with James Turrell, this piece commissioned by Michael Hue-Williams of Albion London has been completed. With contributions recorded in Tokyo, London and New York, the work was assembled and mixed in Dolby Surround and runs at just over five hours in length. We will announce locations at which it may be heard through this site as they are known.