i’m an experimental composer-performer. 

i live in stirchley, in birmingham. i am a phd student working with experimental theatre company stan’s cafe. i am irish. i studied music at the university of york and i studied experimental performance at the royal birmingham conservatoire. i am the director of a m o k: an experimental music and performance platform. I was part of sound and music’s 2019 cohort of composer-curators. 

i do things. i make things. i do the things i make. i make the things i do. i do things that other people make. i make things for other people to do. 

i have made music for people to sing on their bikes, music for people in boxes after a dream about boxes and an opera about a tin can. i have entered a void to hear tiny sound, improvised on a moving bridge, made a radio play about death, performed with fellow composer-performer neil luck live onstage at the bbc proms and i won nonclassical's 2020 battle of the bands. i’ve performed in england, norway, the netherlands, france and ireland.

i am part of two music duos; flxnflx with maya-leigh rosenwasser and egnairio with raymond brien.

“dynamic, theatrical and often downright hilarious” - nonclassical

“james’s work defies notions of convention and medium, with genre-bending performances…” - prxludes

“the results were deeply odd but strangely compelling” - tempo