Paul Schütze " The Sky Torn Apart " Featured
It revolves around an inspiring raison d’etre that goes beyond the mere distinction of its acoustic physiognomy.TOUCHING EXTREMES
Paul Schütze has worked for over thirty years as an artist in the fields of, photography, video, sound and installation. He was a founding member of Australian experimental band Laughing Hands and of Phantom City: an international collective of musicians working both live and virtually from points across the globe. He has performed with sound & film works in over a dozen countries and released over thirty albums of original music. His works have been exhibited in numerous international galleries and museums (V&A, The Hayward, Reina Sofia, IVAM, British Museum). His photographic work is held in both public and private collections including The British Museum, Pallant House and the Speed Museum. He has collaborated with major international artists including James Turrell, Josiah McElheny & Isaac Julien and musicians including Bill Laswell, Lol Coxhill, Toshinori Kondo, Raoul Björkenheim, Clive Bell, Dirk Wachtaeler, Max Eastley, Jah Wobble, Robert Hamson and David Toop. Paul runs the online sensory archive Dressing The Air and in 2014 introduced olfactory elements into his artwork. In 2016 He launched fragrance house Paul Schütze Perfume with partner Chris Rickwood.
This work is a reflection on the uncanny parralells found in our anthropogenic environmental transformation and the Nordic myths of Ragnarök in which the earth is subsumed by water as a consequence of divine conflict. In the myth, the world emerges from the waters reborn and purged.
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.
Track Listing:
1. The Sky Torn Apart (56:39)
Label: Glacial Movements
Artist: Paul Schütze
Release date : 30th April 2018
Format: CD 6 panels Digipack ltd edition in black mettalic colour and embossed parts + Digital
Cat. Num: GM033
Barcode: 8033959880326
Paul Schütze composition, programming, performance & production, London 2018
Clive Bell - Mutant Shakuhachi
Thanks to Alessandro Tedeschi, Andrew Hulme, Clive Bell & Kevin Pollard. For Chris.
Cover photo by Bjarne Riesto
Sleeve design by Rutger Zuydervelt
A Glacial Movements records release, April 2018
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