activity (2022/2023)
UPCOMING EVENTS [composition] [performance] [workshop]
2023
29 September
[original music]
Premiere of The Tourist by Gary Zhexi Zhang at Art Gallery of York University (AGyu), Toronto
22 November
[performance]
Performing Anytime Return by Milo Thesiger-Meacham at Iklectik, London
3 December
[composition/performance]
New devised work with Waste Paper Opera Chorus wearing Moina Moin’s sculptures at Lewisham Arthouse, London
RECENT PAST EVENTS [composition] [performance] [workshop]
2023
29 September
[original music]
Premiere of The Tourist by Gary Zhexi Zhang at Art Gallery of York University (AGyu), Toronto
15 August
[composition/performance]
Performance of new improvised set with Martin Thomlinson at Somers Gallery for the opening of Anna Suwalowska’s exhibition Psychogical Landscapes Journey Within as part of Camden Inspire, London
28 July
[composition]
Performance of 10 Songs of Limited Context by Paul Zaba at AMOK, Artefact, Birmingham
19 July
[composition/screening]
Screening of Free to Choose by Bahar Noorizadeh at Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
4 July
[performance]
Performance of Somewhere Beautiful by Natacha Diels with Plus Minus Ensemble at Cafe Oto, London
26 June
[composition]
Performance of 10 Songs of Limited Context by Paul Zaba at Depot 48, Dehli
23 June
[composition/screening]
Screening of Free to Choose by Bahar Noorizadeh at Beirut Art Center, Beirut
21 June
[composition]
Performance of 10 Songs of Limited Context by Paul Zaba at Bangalore International Centre, Dehli
5-27 May
[performance]
Performances of HOUSECONCERT with Object Collection at The Brick Theater, New York
23 May
[composition/performance]
Performance of solo routine for Salon at Brick Aux, New York
4 May
[composition/screening]
Screening of Free to Choose by Bahar Noorizadeh at Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
14-15 April
[performance]
Performances of HOUSECONCERT with Object Collection at Indexical, Santa Cruz
13 April
[performance]
Performances of HOUSECONCERT with Object Collection at Stanford University, California
30 March
[performance]
Launch of Anat Ben-David’s Conversations EP, London
16-17 March
[performance]
Performances of HOUSECONCERT with Object Collection at Cafe Oto, London
9 March
[workshop]
Waste Paper Opera workshop Create the World at Central Saint Martins, London
1 March
[workshop]
Waste Paper Opera workshop series Approaches to New Music Theatre: time, space, movement – Session 4: Bodies, budgets and things on stage in opera at London Performance Studios, London
22 February
[workshop]
Waste Paper Opera workshop series Approaches to New Music Theatre: time, space, movement – Session 3: Continuity and Discontinuity: History and Musical Timing at London Performance Studios, London
17 February
[composition/performance]
New work at AMOK at Artefact Projects, Birmingham
15 February
[workshop]
Waste Paper Opera workshop series Approaches to New Music Theatre: time, space, movement – Session 2: Immovable Dramaturgical Objects: working with physical and ephemeral structures at London Performance Studios, London
8 February
[workshop]
Waste Paper Opera workshop series Approaches to New Music Theatre: time, space, movement – Session 1: Language and Music on Stage at London Performance Studios, London
29 January
[composition/performance]
Radio performance of extracts of Dead Cat Bounce and new material on Resonance Extra, live from Resonance Extra project space, London
2022
12 December
[performance/clown]
Live performance of Good Soup with Ensmeble Molière at NCEM, York
13 October
[performance]
Video performance in Neil Luck’s Whatever Weighs You Down, peformed live at Cafe OTO, London
[performance]
Video performance in Neil Luck’s Whatever Weighs You Down, peformed live at Cafe OTO, London
6 October
[screening/composition]
Online screening of Dead Cat Bounce on As We Leave The Window Open, Basel
29 September
[screening/composotion]
Open Rehearsal with Anat Ben-David and Sean Ashton. Sharing film of our recent collaborative work Backwater. At Somerset House, London
16 September
[performance/composition]
New solo bit at cabaret night Seen Any Monsters Lately? at Anzengruberin, Berlin
11 September
[Performance]
Neil Luck’s Whatever Weighs You Down at Guadeamus Musikweek, Utrecht
16 August
[performance/composition]
New solo bit at art-comedy night SEAMONSTERS - NEW CAR SMELL EDITION, London
29 July
[performance]
Good Soup with Ensemble Moliere at Sands Films, London
14 July
[performance/composition]
Dead Cat Bounce with Waste Paper Opera at Somerset House, London
3 July
[perfomance]
Clint solo set, alongside Lisa and the F.I.X. and Judy Brush at Fox and Firkin, London
[screening/composition]
Online screening of Dead Cat Bounce on As We Leave The Window Open, Basel
29 September
[screening/composotion]
Open Rehearsal with Anat Ben-David and Sean Ashton. Sharing film of our recent collaborative work Backwater. At Somerset House, London
16 September
[performance/composition]
New solo bit at cabaret night Seen Any Monsters Lately? at Anzengruberin, Berlin
11 September
[Performance]
Neil Luck’s Whatever Weighs You Down at Guadeamus Musikweek, Utrecht
16 August
[performance/composition]
New solo bit at art-comedy night SEAMONSTERS - NEW CAR SMELL EDITION, London
29 July
[performance]
Good Soup with Ensemble Moliere at Sands Films, London
14 July
[performance/composition]
Dead Cat Bounce with Waste Paper Opera at Somerset House, London
3 July
[perfomance]
Clint solo set, alongside Lisa and the F.I.X. and Judy Brush at Fox and Firkin, London
19 June
[performance/talk/online]
Eratic Objects: a lecture-performance on musical interruptions at Music Since 1900 conference, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, Birmingham
[performance/talk/online]
Eratic Objects: a lecture-performance on musical interruptions at Music Since 1900 conference, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, Birmingham
17-26 June
[performance]
Performances of Look Out Shithead, Episode 3 with Object Collection at La MaMa, New York
[performance]
Performances of Look Out Shithead, Episode 3 with Object Collection at La MaMa, New York
6 May
[installation/performance/composition]
Dead Cat Bounce installation with 8.2 surround sound at Open Lab, Matadero, Madrid
[installation/performance/composition]
Dead Cat Bounce installation with 8.2 surround sound at Open Lab, Matadero, Madrid
About
James Oldham is a composer and performer based in London. He is currently working on projects with Waste Paper Opera, Ensemble Moliere, Anat Ben-David, and Object Collection. In addition, he performs experimental comedy, and is writing a PhD on comic timing in music at University of Southampton and Bath Spa.
James Oldham is a composer and performer based in London. He is currently working on projects with Waste Paper Opera, Ensemble Moliere, Anat Ben-David, and Object Collection. In addition, he performs experimental comedy, and is writing a PhD on comic timing in music at University of Southampton and Bath Spa.
Booking
You can book James Oldham to perform, compose, direct, teach, or consult.
Other skills include voice acting, music production, live sound, directing, outreach, clowning, electric guitar/bass playing, devising, and filmmaking.
You can book James Oldham to perform, compose, direct, teach, or consult.
Other skills include voice acting, music production, live sound, directing, outreach, clowning, electric guitar/bass playing, devising, and filmmaking.