As someone who grew up in a social-housing community, James’s practice examines the hauntings, spectres, imaginings, vocalities, and ghostly refrains of neoliberal socio-structural precarity and working-class melancholia via the ear of the sonic as radical sociological praxis.
James’ work and research overflows through pre(care)ious and transversal modes of collaboration and fabulated inte(ar)vention - via what he terms houso poetics, via a range of lo-fi ‘scored’ and bricolage’d interventions and agitations, via documentary, community organising, ethnography, workshopping, essaying, pedagogy, critical fabulation, fieldwork, conversation, writing, song, performance - among works for radio, and instrumental/electronic music.
Scores as structures; structures as scores.