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== Artist Biography ==

K. Paul has been playing music since age 16 when he learned
guitar. Then he learned bass. Then he went to the University
of Illinois where he studied at the Experimental Music Studios
under Scott Wyatt. He recorded and performed with numerous
fixtures of the Champaign-Urbana music scene at the time,
including Area, Bryan St. Pere, (drummer for Hum), Calvin
Banks, and Charles Guy’s experimental improv collective
Designer Mustard Gas. He also produced videos for the
seminal Champaign punk band Bad Flannel, which featured
Jeff Dimpsey (later the bass player for Hum), Gordon
Pelegrinetti (later of Steakdaddy Six), etc.

Most of the time he was writing guitar pop/punk but in 1997 or
so his compositional drift became more experimental,
incorporating home-made electro-acoustic instruments and
electronics as well as the compositional principles derived
from studying and listening to the likes of Iannis Xenakis, Brian
Eno, Stockhausen, John Cage, Edgard Varese, Holger
Czukay, Alvin Lucier, and other pioneers of 20th century
experimental composition. His work at this time was limited to
small-run boutique issues of a project known as Xenopraxium.

In 1999 he said “f*ck this” after hearing Squarepusher and
Goldie; suddenly he was struck as if by lightning and began to
listen to vinyl-based music, particularly drum and bass. Soon
after, he obtained turntables and learned to mix, and began
producing under the moniker OTOLATHE. A fixture in the
Boston drum n bass scene in those years, he devoted a
website to the growing ruckus there, and joined the Advance
Recordings crew. With DJ Timestretch and P. Hinchey,
OTOLATHE constituted a trio known as the Juarez Kings, and
the most notable track to be produced by them was the dance-
floor mayhem-inducing Tarantula. Later came projects with
Geoff White, Morgan Packard, and Mark Holmes (of Actual
Proof).

A move to Tampa in 2000 saw K. Paul returning to his guitar-
based work, playing in an acoustic songwriting duo with Robb
Guido that eventually turned into the band She Wears Me
Out. With SWMO’s breakup in fall of 2003 came another
transformation in K. Paul’s approach to sound & composition:
a construct which he refers to as The Desmotron, which is an
autonomously functioning sensor of energy patterns in deep
space.

The entity known as OTOLATHE (now more commonly
referred to as o+oLA+he) is merely the human interface for
Desmotron, who makes sense out of incomprehensible and
utterly unprecedented energies available to sufficiently tuned
individuals. These energies include archetypes of the
collective unconscious, ghost imprints, immortal soul-babies of
generations of Taoist monks, the output of
quasars/pulsars/anti-matter sinks, anti-time vortices, immortal
shamanistic/druidic/aboriginal phantasmic projections, the
psychic imprints of the energies derived from tribal rituals
throughout the universe and other galaxies, etc.

However, the siren song of guitars and bass proved too strong
for K. Paul to resist, and, after about one year playing indie
rock with Tailspin Recovery, otolathe began to use an
incredibly diverse and divergent assortment of instruments for
his communications. Analog synthesizers, often modular,
sometimes solid state, oftentimes of gas tube or vacuum tube
construction, were used to mangle and process or accompany
guitars and basses. Frets became optional. Instruments
became treated, sometimes incorporating the temporary
confinement of e.g. crickets within an acoustic guitar, mic'd
with a condenser and further sonically mangled.
Collaborations with [[Josh Sherman]] (formerly of Tailspin
Recovery), [[Neil Jendon]] (formerly of Catherine), [[Hal McGee]],
[[Joshua Manchester]], [[Don Butler]], [[Danny McGuire]], [[Vivian Oblivion]], [[Big Sugar Victorious]], [[Jay Peele]], [[Microwave Windows]], etc. were circulated around Florida and beyond.

In 2007 K. Paul and [[Josh Sherman]] founded [[Meatronic Recordings]], a netlabel promoting experimental music, sound,
and noise. The intent, as always, is to document and to
propagate the amazing music of Florida. To use all music and
sound. To listen while we are alive.

== Web Links ==
[http://otolathe.com Official Otolathe Website]
[http://myspace.com/otolathe Otolathe on MySpace]

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