Paul Purgas is a London based artist and musician working with sound, performance and installation.
Originally trained as an architect he has presented exhibitions and performances with Tramway, Camden Art Centre, Sotuhbank Centre and Kunstverein Gartenhaus. His written output includes essays for the Unsound:Undead collection published by Urbanomic/MIT Press and the documentaries Electronic India and Krishnamurti in England for BBC Radio 3. He is one half of the electronic music project Emptyset working with electroacoustic and computer music, broadcasting and spatialised sound. Emptyset has presented work at the Architecture Foundation, the Roberts Institute and Tate Britain’s Performing Architecture programme, and performed at Unsound, Sonic Acts and Berghain for Transmediale 2020.
Paul Purgas is currently a resident at Somerset House Studios
