Paul Scriver
Paul Scriver is from Montréal, Québec. His career started as a promising jazz saxophonist and ended with a precipitous descent into the world of Burlesque. Recovery has come in the form of his embrace of composition. Along the way he has been an audio engineer and music producer. While Paul's career as a composer is showing promise (he has had pieces premiered at the West Wave Dance Festival and the Collaborations Dance festival at the Cowell Theater in Fort Mason, participated in numerous concerts at Mills college and is collaborating with visual artists and scientists for a large scale work at the Klein Gallery in Philadelphia), he has had worrying slide into Noise Music as a cross dressing keyboardist in the notoriously silly noise group "Bludfärt".
Paul's music crosses many genres from electro-acoustic to acoustic chamber music to Burlesque potboiler. He is interested in the timbral possibilities of unexpected combinations of instruments and finding a way to articulate spiritual considerations in non-liturgical music. He is in the process of expanding his portfolio of compositions for acoustic and hybrid electronic/acoustic ensembles and developing his portfolio of sound art pieces.
