Paul Whitty

Paul Whitty is a Composer and Sound Artist whose work has found its way into spaces and contexts as diverse as the Mecca State Bingo Hall in Kilburn, London; the freezer compartment of a fridge in Romford, Essex; Nightclubs in Hackney and Huddersfield; and Vauxhall Cross Gyratory in Central London. Recently Paul has been engaged in a series of interventions in pre- existing contexts – re-reading, re-organising, re-categorising, re- distributing and re-sounding the materials that are found there. These contexts can be scores, actual physical sites or instruments. Recordings include thirty-nine pages - a re-organisation of Cesar Franck's Sonata for violin and piano - performed by Darragh Morgan and Mary Dullea (Metier 28509); and seven pages - an exploration of the internal soundworld of Gyorgy Ligeti's Continuum in collaboration with harpsichordist Jane Chapman (NMC D145).

Paul is director of experimental ensemble [rout] and has a particular interest in collaborative practice. His ongoing collaborative project Vauxhall Pleasure (2004-2009) with Anna Best consisted of a site event at Vauxhall Cross, London; an installation at the Museum of Garden History as part of their Tempered Ground exhibition; and two performances at Tate Britain. The latest phase of the project has been funded by the AHRC. In the introduction to the ACE publication Open Space: Art in the Public realm in London 1995-2005 Jemima Montagu comments:

"Both socio-political protest and live art and music performance, this project captures the richly layered, interdisciplinary and ultimately uncategorisable nature of art in the public realm today."

Projects include The Swimmer – A True Story a film and installation developed with novelist Roma Tearne and exhibited at the 54th Venice Biennale (2011).

Paul is a founder member of the Sonic Art Research Unit (SARU) and audiograft at Oxford Brookes University.

Biography

Paul Whitty is a Composer and Sound Artist whose work has found its way into spaces and contexts as diverse as the Mecca State Bingo Hall in Kilburn, London; the freezer compartment of a fridge in Romford, Essex; Nightclubs in Hackney and Huddersfield; and Vauxhall Cross Gyratory in Central London. Recently Paul has been engaged in a series of interventions in pre- existing contexts – re-reading, re-organising, re-categorising, re- distributing and re-sounding the materials that are found there. These contexts can be scores, actual physical sites or instruments. Recordings include thirty-nine pages - a re-organisation of Cesar Franck's Sonata for violin and piano - performed by Darragh Morgan and Mary Dullea (Metier 28509); and seven pages - an exploration of the internal soundworld of Gyorgy Ligeti's Continuum in collaboration with harpsichordist Jane Chapman (NMC D145).

Paul is director of experimental ensemble [rout] and has a particular interest in collaborative practice. His ongoing collaborative project Vauxhall Pleasure (2004-2009) with Anna Best consisted of a site event at Vauxhall Cross, London; an installation at the Museum of Garden History as part of their Tempered Ground exhibition; and two performances at Tate Britain. The latest phase of the project has been funded by the AHRC. In the introduction to the ACE publication Open Space: Art in the Public realm in London 1995-2005 Jemima Montagu comments:

"Both socio-political protest and live art and music performance, this project captures the richly layered, interdisciplinary and ultimately uncategorisable nature of art in the public realm today."

Projects include The Swimmer – A True Story a film and installation developed with novelist Roma Tearne and exhibited at the 54th Venice Biennale (2011).

Paul is a founder member of the Sonic Art Research Unit (SARU) and audiograft at Oxford Brookes University.

Compilations with this composer

Compilations
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Digital Discoveries 1: Can't.Remember.How.It.Starts. cover

Digital Discoveries 1: Can't.Remember.How.It.Starts.

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Digital Discoveries 6: Magenta Cuts cover

Digital Discoveries 6: Magenta Cuts

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Digital Discoveries 8: Loopholes cover

Digital Discoveries 8: Loopholes

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New Music Collections: Electronic cover

New Music Collections: Electronic

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