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: 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: 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]

James is a composer, improviser, writer, and photographer.

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