Paul Schütze

Paul Schütze is an Australian composer and visual artist, born in Melbourne in 1958 and based in London since 1992. He is known for ambient and electronic records, and his work also extends to film scores, installation, video and photography. Schütze co-founded the experimental group Laughing Hands in Melbourne and then spent years writing film music; his score for The Tale of Ruby Rose (1987) won the Australian Film Institute award for best original music. His album Deus Ex Machina came out on Extreme in 1989, followed by The Surgery of Touch (1994) and the Virgin release Second Site (1997).