Paul Doornbusch

Paul Doornbusch (born 1959, Melbourne) is an Australian composer and musician. He is the author of a book documenting the first computer music, made with the CSIRAC.

Doornbusch spent several years at RMIT University in Melbourne, and later taught at the New Zealand School of Music. He now lives in the Melbourne area.

The biography accompanying his Corrosion CD states that "his compositional concerns involve new forms for music appropriate for contemporary culture.... He works mostly as an algorithmic composer, but occasionally in recent years he has engaged in peripheral areas such as the Place-Hampi project with Jeffrey Shaw. As an algorithmic composer, Doornbusch has identified and examined in detail the mapping stage of the process where structural data becomes musical parameters."

Recordings

Corrosion CD of the works of Paul Doornbusch, 2002 (EMF 043) The Frog Peak Collaboration Project 1998 (USA)

List of works

Continuity 1W (2007), electronics. Lorenz (2005), piano. Continuity3 (2000), percussion and electronics. Continuity 2 (1999), bass recorder quartet and electronics. Dialogus (2000), electronics. ACT 5 (1998), for amplified bassoon and hanging percussion. G4 (1997), for electronics. MFPG (1994), for electronics. Strepidus Somnus (1997), for 4 voices and electronics. Assifxiation (1997) amplified flute and electronics. On The Fence (1997) for medium ensemble and electronics. Structured Luck (1996), for amplified bassoon and electronics. Iceberg (1995) for electronics. Preludes (1994) for 4 voices. M1 (1995) for soloist and electronics. M2 (1995) for soloist and electronics.

Books