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]

Redacted [piano solo]

Title: Sculpture V
Composer: James May
Performers: Aion String Quartet

Sculpture V [string quartet]

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: Sculpture VI
Year: 2018
Performers: JACK Quartet

Sculpture VI [string quartet]

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]

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

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