PaulSchutze.com
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paul schütze
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It's all to tempting to look back across any artist's career and see germs of the future in his or her earliest work, but if the career of ex-pat Australian, London-resident composer, keyboardist and sound designer Paul Schütze has been a remarkably diverse one, there are nonetheless interests, ideas and techniques which run consistently throughout it.
Born in 1958 in Melbourne - where he lived intermittently until relocating to the UK in 1992 - Schütze's earliest experience of making music was much like that of any kid growing up in the early 70s. As a mid-teenager, inspired by the music he was following avidly (Krautrock, Asian classical music, prog, early fusion...) he played in a high-school space rock covers band. A minor biographical footnote, perhaps, but Schütze's choice of instrument was telling, in that he didn't really opt for an "instrument" at all, but a primitive echo chamber. Two decades later, much of it spent playing both percussion and keyboards, Schütze remains embarrassed at the description "musician", feeling that it should be strictly reserved for players who've spent years of study honing their craft, and openly admits that his use of any musical instrument is entirely a means to a compositional end.
