James Oldham
composer performer
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James Oldham 

composer performer composer performer 











activity (2022/2023)


UPCOMING EVENTS [composition] [performance] [workshop]

2023

30 March

[performance]
Launch of Anat Ben-David’s Conversations EP, London

14-15 April

[performance]
Performances of HOUSECONCERT with Object Collection at Indexical, Santa Cruz

5-28 May

[performance]
Performances of HOUSECONCERT with Object Collection at The Brick Theater, New York 





RECENT PAST EVENTS [composition] [performance] [workshop]

2023

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

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

19 June

[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

6 May

[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. 
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.