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James Wyness works with sound and music to create
compositions, live performances, sound installations, and work for
radio, fixed media, and digital publications.
Working typically with environmental field recordings and material
generated in the studio using hand-made instruments and found objects,
he is interested in exploring the materiality of sound and in the
genesis and evolution of sound shapes and of musical forms.
He often works from within his own sound archive, The Borders Archive
(2003 - 2012), a personal digital archive of the Scottish Borders and
North Northumberland. His archival interest has led to a range of
approaches, from documentary approaches to investigating rural
architecture and the ethnography of technology, to conceptual
environmental investigations and interventions. Many of these projects
have had a substantial component of social engagement and
inter-disciplinary collaboration. Over the years the same themes and
topics have reappeared, these being specific to the natural and human
environments of the Borders, but with enough depth and range to
generate interest as universal themes.
His current research and practice include: the development of familiar
concepts and themes, converges on new definitions of performance using
sound alongside other media; an examination of the social reception of
field recordings, in their widest sense, by means of the organisation
and promotion small-scale social events.
His small record label, reekin lum records, releases limited edition
publications of new work. He is also involved in traditional music both
as an accompanist and educator, working regularly with the new
generation of young musicians from 'both sides the Tweed'. He has an MA
Honours degree in French Studies and a PhD in electroacoustic
composition from the University of Aberdeen where he studied with Pete
Stollery. Finally he is currently in the early stages of a
collaborative exploration of sound and new music with Italian composer,
linguist and researcher Giancarlo Toniutti.
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