Paul Engle is a musician from Los Angeles, where he spent much of his musical life as a guitarist and songwriter. His formal music training began at Los Angeles City College with an emphasis in jazz guitar and composition. Paul holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Composition & Experimental Sound Practices from CalArts, where his teachers included Andrew McIntosh, Wolfgang von Schweinitz, and Marc Lowenstein. His recent works embrace nuanced differences of sameness and invite interactions of procedural austerity with will and intuition. Currently, Paul is pursuing a Ph.D. in Composition and Theory at UC Davis.