James Saunders

composition

2026
it’s as if someone were out there making up pointless jobs just for the sake of keeping us all working (2025)
2025
just trying to do what I’m told and keep up and do the best that I can (2025)
having to carry out the repetitive, mind-numbingly boring but still very necessary tasks required to manage increasingly complicated processes of production (2025)
something happens then something else happens then all sorts of other things happen (2025)
sometimes it all gets a bit too much and you need a break (2025)
2023
performing tasks they secretly believe do not really need to be performed (2023)
it is really hard to focus when there are too many things to do (2023)
it is difficult to find the right way to proceed (2023)
looking forwards, looking backwards (2023)
trying to make things fit together (2023)
waiting for someone to do the thing you need them to do (2023)
with or without interruption (2023)
amongst it all, some occasional moments of respite (2023)
2022
show us what to do (2022)
the sense of a shared world made of shared values (2022)
2021
guided sequences (2021)
it is the behaviour that a system tends towards and encourages that needs to be understood (2021)
making a choice and then making another choice (2021)
nine labyrinths (2021)
canons (2021- )
2020
sequence studies (2020)
evolution occurs very slowly or not at all (2020)
2018
it is impossible for everyone to achieve everything they want (2018)
you are required to split your attention between multiple sources of information (2018)
reaching an acceptable and stable solution (2018)
solutions must be sought which everyone can accept (2018)
2017
know that your actions reflect within the group (2017)
let it go beyond a certain point (2017)
alternate between attention and ease (2017)
2016
they are always different, they are always the same (2016)
in which one thing depends on another (2016)
constant interchange of the most various kinds (2016)
2015
like you and like you (2015)
space with sounding floor
all voices are heard (2015)
different water environments (2015)
2014
positions in the sequence correctly recalled (2014)
overlay (with transience) (2014)
so many territories (2014)
on bare trees (2014)
things to do
everybody doing what everybody else is doing (2014)
2013
interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles (2013)
2012
six surfaces, all of the same dimensions but otherwise different (2012)
small template (2012- )
overlay (2012)
the range of outside factors influencing it, as well as its own radius of action (2012)
object network (2012)
instruments with recordings (2012)
AT LEAST ONE HUNDRED DEVICES BEING TURNED ON AND OFF (2012)
eight panels (2012)
2011
it may exist for a few seconds or it may go on indefinitely (2011)
various distinct spatial or temporal locations (2011)
opposition between the two spaces and their common mediation (2011)
location composites
nothing reveals itself without at the same time concealing something else (2011)
things whole and not whole (2011)
with the same material or still, to vary the material (2011)
x sequential pitches (2011- )
78 duos (2011- )
certain elements within that situation remained constant (2011)
distribution study
divisions that could be autonomous but that comprise the whole (2009-11)
each will appear or not appear (2011)
2010
geometria situs (2009-10)
imperfections on the surface are occasionally apparent (2009)
materials vary greatly and are simply materials (2010)
surfaces (2010- )
template with alterations (2010-)
although it may appear to vary by the way in which units are joined (2009-10)
any one part can replace any other part (2010)
2009
PART OF IT MAY ALSO BE PART OF SOMETHING ELSE (2009)
ways of making sounds described in fewer than twenty words (2009-)
with paper (2006/8, 2009- )
components derive their value solely through their assigned context (2009)
either/or
2008
239 instances of loss (2008- )
2002
assigned (2002- )
2000
#[unassigned] (2000-9)
1999
511 possible mosaics
1998
Like wool
1997
six pieces