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About Dr Paul Ratcliff
Paul Ratcliff is an artist who uses field recordings in his practice and a lecturer in music and sound. He has worked on creative projects using field recording, audio editing, art-installations and performances. He specialises in city soundscapes, urban wildlife, ruined and renovated industrial buildings, and historical site recording.
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Field Recording, Music in Context, Music Production Practice and Creative Practice PortfoliosResearch Interests
Paul primarily uses field recordings in his site-specific practice. Together with photography he produces compositions for public galleries. His work focuses on wildlife in urban and suburban locations, and decaying and renovated industrial buildings and recording historical sites. His field recordings are being used in educational video games, installations, popular music compositions, performances and as demonstrations of how wildlife and human populations co-exist. His work has been exhibited/performed across the North of England, from Crewe, Leeds, Hebden Bridge and Bradford, and also in Germany and America.
Selected Publications
Journal articles (1)
- Ratcliff P (2017), Baby, It's Cold Outside!: Lessons from making audio-recordings of wildlife in urban/semirural environments
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Artworks (12)
- Ratcliff P; Dunn MFA A; Hibbert G (2019), Sunny Bank Mill - locker
- Ratcliff P; Larkman B (2018), Grey Stone
- Ratcliff P (2018), A Year in the Garden
- Ratcliff P; Dunn A (2018), Mining Sounds
- Ratcliff P; Dunn A (2018), Mill Workers
- Ratcliff P; Dunn A (2017), Journey through the mirror pool
- Ratcliff P; Entwistle T (2017), Hebden Water
- Ratcliff P (2017), A Year in the Garden
- Ratcliff P (2017), The Mill
- Ratcliff P (2016), Temple Works - Sound Installation
- Ratcliff P (2016), Temple Works
- Ratcliff P (2016), Temple Works
Media (1)
- Ratcliff P (In press), Yorkshire Soundings
Performances (3)
- Flattery CM; Ratcliff P; Bowers T; Briggs M (In press), Where is Jason Molina? An Elegy. Performed as part of the Dark Sound: Destructive Pop Conference.
- Ratcliff P; Flattery C; Briggs MM; Bowers T (In press), Reflections on Magnolia
- brayshaw T; Osborne Kendall L (In press), The Bone Collectors Index
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