grain vi | fogging
by James May

Performed by Richard Seiler at New Music on the Bayou 2023
Monroe, Louisiana

grain vi | fogging [piano solo]

Set of four improvisations by James May and Byron Asher

May + Asher | set 4

May + Asher | set 3

May + Asher | set 2

May + Asher | set 1

Title: dredge ii
Year: 2023
Performers: Hypercube
Art: the composer

dredge ii [alto sax, e. guitar, percussion, piano]

Stereo JrF contact mics with impedance adapters, taped to my bedroom window during a storm in New Orleans, recording into a TASCAM DR-100MKIII. 

Recorded 8 March 2024 in the evening.

Contact Mics: https://jezrileyfrench.co.uk/contact-microphones.php

contact mics on window during new orleans storm [stereo]

Title: dredge i
Year: 2024
Performers: Versipel New Music + Byron Asher, Alexandria Smith, Chris Alford

dredge i [violin, cello, clarinet, piano + b. clarinet, trumpet, e. guitar]

Title: thin places
Year: 2021
Performers: Jasper Sussman (voice), Eli Berman (voice), Gabe Ross (Organ)

Written for the 2021 N.E.O. Voice Festival

thin places [improvisers + fixed media]

Title: given to be heard
Year: 2025
3rd-Order Ambisonics Soundscape

*PLEASE LISTEN WITH HEADPHONES*

given to be heard [binaural soundscape]

Title: burrow
Year: 2025
Performers: Russell Greenberg (percussion), James May (electronics)

burrow [improvising percussion and electronics]

Title: In/Out
Composer: James May
Year: 2017
Performers: Sandro Leal Santiesteban (violin), Ryan Ash (cello) [Beo String Quartet]

This piece was composed for the Charlotte New Music Festival 2017 speed writing contest, loosely inspired by The Beatles' "Within You Without You" to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

In/Out [violin & cello]

Title: The Garden
Composer: James May
Year: 2016

Co-winner of the San Francisco Choral Artists' 2017 New Voices Project. Performed and recorded by the SFCA, directed by Magen Solomon. http://www.sfca.org

The Garden [SATB chorus]

Redacted [piano solo]

Title: In Passing: II. Little of Me
Text: Rabindranath Tagore
Performers: Members of The College of Wooster Chorus; Lauren Vanden Broeck, soprano

Little Of Me [soprano and chorus]

Title: Sixteen Dead Men
Text: Dora Sigerson Shorter
Performers: Dylon Crain, tenor; Katherine Alberts, English Horn; Jackie Royce, bassoon; Elliot Eckel, piano

Sixteen Dead Men [tenor, E. horn, bassoon, piano]

Title: Lensing
Year: 2017
Performers: University of Louisville Student Orchestra, Greg Neblitt, conductor, Kimcherie Lloyd, director

Lensing [orchestra]

Title: Sculpture VI
Year: 2018
Performers: JACK Quartet

Sculpture VI [string quartet]

An ambient drone track, using recordings taken on a Google Pixel 2 from Ballinskelligs and Portmagee, Co. Kerry

Iveragh [tape]

Title: Zaira And Irene
Year: 2018
Performers: University of Louisville Student Orchestra, dir. Kimcherie Lloyd
Artwork: Simone Ren

Zaira And Irene [Orchestra]

Nohoval, for aural score and free improviser.

Recorded by Glen Whitehead at University College Cork, May 2019. https://www.glenwhitehead.com/

Field recordings of Nohoval Cove, Co. Cork, Ireland.

Nohoval [free improvisation and tape]

Title: sculpture vii
Year: 2019
Performers: TROMPO (trompotrompo.com)
Art: TROMPO

sculpture vii [flute, violin, double bass]

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