Paul Clift

Paul Clift (born 21 March 1978) is an Australian composer and sound artist. His works comprise mostly instrumental music, often with electronics, video or other multimedia elements. Biography Born in Melbourne, Australia, Paul Clift began his musical education with studies of piano. After graduating with a degree in music composition and linguistics from Monash University, he moved to Paris for further study of composition. In 2009, he moved to New York for doctoral studies at Columbia University. His doctoral thesis deals with musical temporality and its relationship with memory and perception. While working on his doctorate, he undertook residencies at the Paul Sacher Foundation (Basel), to research alternative temporal/spatial notation systems and novel forms of musical tablature, and at IRCAM, where he collaborated with René Caussé on the development of “Acoustic Aggregate Synthesis”, a “real-time performance tool which fuses synthetic and acoustic sound sources to yield a semi-acoustic re-synthesis of a pre-defined acoustic model.” His subsequent publications in the latter field have been widely cited in research on hybrid musical instruments. Among the composition professors