works with sound, video, space, duration, and light. Their work is experienced on stage, screen, radio, and internet; or can be seen in the flesh in galleries and museums around Australia.

James focuses on designed encounters with phenomena: amplifying or translating aspects of perception a mode or scale of direct interaction. They seek a realtime experience of experience. The work is fuelled by an obsession with properties and behaviours of the physical world: information, duality, chaos, topology, and semiosis.

Recent performance works include HERCULES (Daniel Schlusser), CARBON (Katy Maudlin), DJUNA (Bullet Heart Club), and Wake in Fright (Malthouse Theatre). Current projects include:

SPECTRA, installation works about perception;
O Z O R, music for pluriform pseudoworlds; and
multimedia science-fiction 2 BLACK FRAMES — a multimedia series about the MKULTRA program.

James has designed sound for live performance since 2012, and has collaborated on over 30 stage productions in Australia. Exceptional works include Hercules (Daniel Schlusser Ensemble), DJUNA (Bullet Heart Club), The Collected Works of Victor Bergman (The Family), Conviction (Zoey Dawson), and Wake in Fright (Malthouse).

James has worked with the Daniel Schlusser Ensemble since 2013, beginning with Menagerie (Melbourne Theatre Co.) and M+M (Melbourne International Arts Festival), and continuing through the present with They Divided the Sky (Belvoir Theatre Co.) and Hercules (Arts House). They collaborate on new work: new versions, new experiments, and new realities.

James’ compositions WAVEFUNCTION, Cephalopoda, MIKROS, and MAKROS were performed with Speak Percussion in their Emerging Artist Programs. Music projects, solo and in collaboration, have been broadcast on national radio, performed by popular singers, and scored stage, space and screen. James is known for musique concrète, noise, and heavy electronic musics.

James’ exhibition work includes ORDER(chaos) (for 864SHIVERS), Number of the Machine (with Darrin Verhagen and Tilde Joy as (((20Hz))) for Antony Hamilton Projects), blue|red2:VIMS\SIMS (with (((20Hz))) for Scienceworks), PROCOZmkii.b (West Space/NGV: Australia/White Night), and Umwelt: My Monster (with Darrin Verhagen and Richard Grant for MORBIS ARTIS/RMIT Gallery).

Their exhibition works use extreme stimuli, high amplitude, and robotics to oversaturate faculties of perception. James is a founding member of (((20Hz))). They created an audio-visuo-kinetic robotic listening experience MERLE for Einstürzende Neubauten’s Klangbewegung Maschine (Goethe-Institut), which Jochen Arbeit described as “cool”.

James holds first-class Honours, and studies biosemiotic methods for design (PhD candidate). James shares a Green Room Award with Darrin Verhagen and Michael Pulsford for Daniel Schlusser Ensembles M+M, and has been nominated on three further occasions. They have been exhibited by NGV: Australia, West Space, White Night, and their performance work has been shown at the Sydney Opera House and in Slovenia.

image: Darren Gill