James

Here’s another video of one of the pieces from the series I’m developing titled things to do. I was in Bristol at the Arnolfini in August working with the excellent Set Ensemble, making some recordings of my piece I decide what it is I am going to do as part of a residency they had organised. In…

I’ve finally managed to edit together some documentation of the performance of what you must do, rather than must not do (2012) by Dedalus Ensemble at The Forge in October 2012. We had three cameras, but they all had different aspect ratios and formats. After some playing around with far too many video conversion packages than…

Here’s a video of last week’s first performance of my piece everybody do this by Material in Bath. This is the second piece in the series things to do, and the next two pieces will be performed in May and June. We’re having a go at everybody do this again in London on 8 April at City University…

I know this is a little sad, but I was very excited to find out that our photocopiers at Bath Spa have a function where you can scan A3 pages – with a sheet feeder – and automatically convert them to PDFs and get them emailed to you directly. About seven years ago, I started…

The version of #[unassigned] which I made for Apartment House in 2004 has been re-released by NMC on their new Digital Discoveries series. Most of the recordings are of pieces by composers who were part of the BMIC’s New Voices scheme, and the issue is a link between Sound and Music and the rehoused British Music…

There have been some more performances of location composite #1: Portbury Wharf recently, including one at the Hansard Gallery in Southampton by Bang the Bore. There’s a poetic review at ATTN: magazine (which looks like an interesting site – I’d not com across this before but some good content here), and some great photos. Really pleased to…

Here’s a lovely video of the Kammer Klang performance of with paper by Lucy Railton and Serge Vuille at Cafe Oto on 4 March. The synchronisation and differences work really well.

I’ve just found some time to upload some more recent recordings of pieces as the sounds page had nothing after 2006, which needed rectifying. I got a little carried away and managed to collect some of the videos which have appeared in posts over the past year or so on the films page too. All…

After a lot of driving around this evening, I finally managed to find The Scout Hut at Redcliffe Wharf in Bristol. Dominic Lash had organised a performance there with Set Ensemble – it really is a scout hut (complete with knots and bells), although the capitalisation gives it more of an allure. Great venue though,…

I’ve been making a new piece over the last week or so for performance at the Cage concert in Bristol on 5 September. It’s called object network and uses a network of points connected by lines, drawn by hand on a variety of different surfaces. Each score is individually made and unique. To perform the score,…

Here’s the recording of my piece eight panels from St Andrews last month. There’s a bit of interference unfortunately (turn those phones off!). eight panels

I’ve just started to expand my location composite series by placing some new caches. The first one was placed on a nature reserve near my house about 18 months ago, and I’ve been meaning to continue the series ever since. After considering possible locations, I’ve decided to work my way along the Avon Gorge to Bristol…

My new piece for eight soprano saxophones, eight panels, was performed yesterday in St Andrews at the World Saxophone Congress. The piece was commissioned by the reed manufacturer RICO. It was a very interesting weekend, and I was really pleased with the performance by a group of fantastic players: Philippe Braquart, Eleri Ann Evan, Jean-Denis Michat, Lars Mlekusch, Henrique Portovedo,…

I’ve just finished a new piece for eight saxophones, titled eight panels. It was a commission from Rico, the reed manufacturer, for performance at the World Saxophone Congress in St. Andrews in July. The piece was a request from Eleri Ann Evans, and I’ve also made a short piece for her and her duo partner,…

A version of my piece template (with alterations) was performed at the wulf in Los Angeles in March, in an event organised by Christine Tavolacci. Here’s a short video of the performance, played by Brian Walsh (clarinet), Cassia Streb (viola) and Antares Boyle (flute).

Dedalus ensemble are performing my piece location composite #1: Portbury Wharf in Paris as part of their Semaine Wandelweiser series at Bois de Vincennes on 29 April. The piece takes verbal descriptions of a location near where I live, written by geocachers. Since installing the cache last year, there have been about 25 finds, which have…

Here’s another video from the recent Audiograft festival in Oxford, featuring a lovely performance by [rout] of the piece I wrote for them last year called nothing reveals itself without at the same time concealing something else. The piece involves the ensemble playing long tones with some overlap, such that some are covered or uncovered by…