[Photograph: Anthony Jones]
Biographical Notes
I am a composer, musician, record producer, and film-maker. I have had many releases on labels such as Rising High, Rotation, Inspiral, 2Kool, Masters At Work, SWND, Welsh Modular Alliance, and Bamboo Radical. I have composed and produced the music for a number of commercial film and TV programmes and have produced and exhibited several short films of my own.
Whilst living in London I had a parallel career as a music technology and web design lecturer, working extensively at Community Music, Musicworks, and Hurricane. I finally became Education & Training Manager at Gateway before moving to Wales in 2003.
For 14 years I was a lecturer at Swansea College of Art. My main academic interest is communication studies: music, storytelling, medium theory, and semiotics. I am currently a Lecturer in Music at Gower College Swansea.
In 2016 I was a founding member of the Swansea Laptop Orchestra. I run an independent record label and continue to record, perform, and create.
Selected Discography
Paul Hazel (2024) Removing Image. BAM23023
Paul Hazel (2023) Grenade. BAM23022
Jeremy Gluck & Paul Hazel (2023) #EBDB. BAM23021
Freshwater West (2022) Maybe. SWND Records.
Paul Hazel & Steve Waterman (2021) Out of This World with Sun Ra. BAM21011
Paul Hazel (2020) Osaka Story. BAM20010
Paul Hazel (2020) Empty Orchestra. 1SSUE 43
Paul Hazel (2019) Blank Paper. 1SSUE 42
Paul Hazel & Carl Boland (2019) One. 1SSUE 41
Paul Hazel (2018) Test Pattern Redux. BAM18006
Paul Hazel (2018) Exploded View 1. 1SSUE 38
Paul Hazel (2018) Dreaming Detroit. BAM18005
Paul Hazel (2017) Looking. 1SSUE 37
Paul Hazel (2017) Memphis Delta. BAM17003
Paul Hazel (2017) Beyond Babylon. BAM17002
Swansea Laptop Orchestra (2017) Loadbang. EAN 0760625689126
Paul Hazel (2017) Buzz. 1SSUE 36
Blue Train (1997) Get Movin’. MAW Records MRW017
Skeleton Crew (1996) Lost World Pts. 1 & 2. lnspiral ISL002
Blue Train (1995) London. 2Kool TKT13
Skeleton Crew (1995) Burning Chrome/Skeleton Coast/Data Jungle. lnspiral ISL00l
Blue Train (1995) Get Movin’/Voices. 2Kool TKT7
Paul Hazel (1995) Go. Rotation ROT95005
Blue Train (1994) Makin’ London Funky. 2Kool TKT2
Paul Hazel (1994) Kings of Sleep. Rotation ROT94004
Paul Hazel (1994) Gene Pool on ‘Chill Out or Die Vol II’. Rising High RSN CD17
Paul Hazel (1994) Dream Machine on ‘Psychedelic Techno & Hard Trance Vol II’. Phantasm PTM103
Blue Train (1993) Theme from Blue Train. Phat Jazz Wrekords 93001
The New You (1988) Never Meet Again/London. TNY002
The New You (1987) Whispering Down/Hunter. TNY00l
Exhibitions
Silver Lined film, part of ‘we are all fragile’, 28 November 2020 – 23 January 2021
With Chris Bird-Jones, Mission Gallery, Swansea.
Glass, Meet the Future International Film Festival, 3 July – 17 July 2020
With Chris Bird-Jones, Northlands Creative, online.
Swansea Open, 7 December 2019 – 23 February 2020
Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea.
Mirror, 30 July – August 11 2019
With Heather Parnell, Art Spot Korin, Kyoto.
1SSUE International, 1 April – 7 June 2019
Group Exhibition, Oriel Y Bont, Cardiff.
1SSUE International, 7 – 19 May 2019
Group Exhibition, Art Spot Korin, Kyoto.
The Resonant Interval, 21 – 25 August 2018
Group Exhibition, Gallery G-77, Kyoto.
Work In Progress, 9 – 12 August 2018
With Heather Parnell, Gallery Tenjinyama Art Studio, Sapporo.
1SSUE16, 21 April 2018 – 26 May 2018
Group Exhibition, West Wharf Gallery, Cardiff.
Swansea Open, 3 December 2017 – 6 January 2018
Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea.
Performances
The Swansea Fringe: Cinema & Co., Swansea, 5 October 2018.
Solo audio-visual performance.
The Resonant Interval: Gallery G-77 Kyoto, 24 August 2018
Audio-visual performance with Carl Boland for laptop, ATV aFrame, and Roland SH-01A synthesizer.
NAWR#6: BBC Hall Swansea, 18 May 2017.
Quadraphonic performance with David Pitt for laptop, voices, and metallophones.
CAM17: Sunflower & I, 8 April 2017.
Swansea Laptop Orchestra: voice, electronic drums, Roland SH-101 monosynth, clarinet.
Electric Soup III: Cardiff MADE, 4 March 2017.
Swansea Laptop Orchestra: voice, electronic drums, Roland SH-101 monosynth.
Experimentica 2017: Chapter Arts Centre, 13 February 2017.
Swansea Laptop Orchestra: voice, electronic drums, Roland SH-101 monosynth.
BBC Radio 3 ‘Exposure’: Chapter Arts Centre, 6 January 2017 [Broadcast Thursday 26 January].
Swansea Laptop Orchestra: voice, clarinet.
NAWR#4: Round Reading Room Swansea, 20 December 2016.
Group improvisation with Roland SH-101 monosynth.
Gwyl Nawr Festival: Volcano Theatre, 20 November 2016.
Swansea Laptop Orchestra: voice, clarinet.