PAUL DOORNBUSCH

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Paul Doornbusch is a composer, sonologist, and performer who works largely with algorithmic composition systems for traditional instruments and electronics. Often fusing electroacoustic and computer music with instrumental music, his compositional concerns involve new forms for music appropriate for contemporary culture and these are expressed in his Continuity series of pieces which examine degrees of (overlapping) continuity and fragmentation.

His work is presented internationally in concerts throughout Europe in Paris, Amsterdam, The Hague, Frankfurt, Köln, Berlin, Salzburg, and so on. He has also had performances in Australiasia, Canada and the USA. His latest works include Continuity 3, for percussion and computer, and Continuity 1&2, for electronics and bass recorders (premiered at the Salzburg Festival, 1999). Since completing a Bachelor of Music degree in Melbourne with Barry Conyngham he has studied and worked in Europe for many years with major composers, mostly in the Dutch music scene and at the Royal Conservatory of Holland. He has written music for a wide variety of performers and situations including pieces for ensembles, soloists, and electronics. Doornbusch's music is concerned with rich textures and elaborate but transparent musical structures that probe the extremes at every level for the performer and listener.

As an algorithmic composer, Doornbusch has identified and examined in detail the mapping stage of the process where structural data becomes musical parameters. He began his studies in Melbourne, Australia, but moved to Europe and continued his studies at the Sonology Institute of the Royal Conservatory of Holland. After completing studies in Holland he remained there working for a number of years, before returning to Australia to head a project at The University of Melbourne to reconstruct the music played by Australia's first computer, CSIRAC, now recognised as the first computer to play music. While working mostly as a composer, he has occasionally in recent years engaged in peripheral areas such as VR related activities, ambisonic research, the Place-Hampi project with Jeffrey Shaw, and with a radio show on Radio New Zealand.

Paul Doornbusch currently lives in Melbourne, Australia, and travels extensively.