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Stuart James is a pianist, drummer, and laptop musician who is based in Perth, Western Australia. Stuart first began lessons in popular piano in 1990 with Barry Palmer, and in 1994, took private lessons in drum kit with Lindsay Evans. In 1995, Stuart studied jazz piano performance at the West Australian Academy of Performing Arts. Following this, Stuart studied contemporary classical piano with Roger Smalley and jazz piano with Mike Nelson at the University of Western Australia from 1997-1998.
Between 1996 and 2002 Stuart performed in a large number of local bands and ensembles performing rock, progressive rock, jazz, punk, funk, alternative, R&B, electro, experimental, baroque/classical, avant-garde, and ambient music. This allowed for opportunities to perform at festivals throughout Western Australia, as well as concert series and events including The Totally Huge New Music Festival, Kulcha Festival, The Perth International Arts Festival, Fringe Festival, Kiss my WAMI Festival, Summer Festival at the Quarrie, Swan Shire Spring Performing Arts Festival, and Telethon. Other performance opportunities included Australian supports for Beaverloop and Cinema Prague as well as international acts such as the Hoodoo Gurus, David Byrne (Talking Heads), Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Francois Breut, and Nadeah. Between 2003 and 2008 Stuart's involvement with recording, mixing and production grew whilst he was involved as a session keyboardist and drummer for several recording projects with producer Lee Bradshaw, and recording/mixing engineer John Villani.
Since 2009 Stuart has first focussed more specifically on laptop performance presenting solo performances of his own work, second focussed on methods of improvisation, and third performed with the Decibel New Music ensemble. With Decibel, Stuart has toured Japan, Malaysia, and Europe twice, presenting a large number of new music programs. In 2016 the ensemble had commissioned over 40 new works from Australian composers. Stuart has also performed collaboratively in various musical situations with composer/performers Simon Emmerson, Zubin Kanga, David Toop, Klaus Filip, Robin Hayward, Kouhei Harada, Dario Sanfilippo, Johannes Sistermanns, Peter Knight, Joel Stern, James Rushford, Johannes Luebbers, Dan Thorne, Sean Little, and Michael Bednall.
Refer to http://www.decibelnewmusic.com/
Stuart James is a pianist, drummer, and laptop musician who is based in Perth, Western Australia. Stuart first began lessons in popular piano in 1990 with Barry Palmer, and in 1994, took private lessons in drum kit with Lindsay Evans. In 1995, Stuart studied jazz piano performance at the West Australian Academy of Performing Arts. Following this, Stuart studied contemporary classical piano with Roger Smalley and jazz piano with Mike Nelson at the University of Western Australia from 1997-1998.
Between 1996 and 2002 Stuart performed in a large number of local bands and ensembles performing rock, progressive rock, jazz, punk, funk, alternative, R&B, electro, experimental, baroque/classical, avant-garde, and ambient music. This allowed for opportunities to perform at festivals throughout Western Australia, as well as concert series and events including The Totally Huge New Music Festival, Kulcha Festival, The Perth International Arts Festival, Fringe Festival, Kiss my WAMI Festival, Summer Festival at the Quarrie, Swan Shire Spring Performing Arts Festival, and Telethon. Other performance opportunities included Australian supports for Beaverloop and Cinema Prague as well as international acts such as the Hoodoo Gurus, David Byrne (Talking Heads), Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Francois Breut, and Nadeah. Between 2003 and 2008 Stuart's involvement with recording, mixing and production grew whilst he was involved as a session keyboardist and drummer for several recording projects with producer Lee Bradshaw, and recording/mixing engineer John Villani.
Since 2009 Stuart has first focussed more specifically on laptop performance presenting solo performances of his own work, second focussed on methods of improvisation, and third performed with the Decibel New Music ensemble. With Decibel, Stuart has toured Japan, Malaysia, and Europe twice, presenting a large number of new music programs. In 2016 the ensemble had commissioned over 40 new works from Australian composers. Stuart has also performed collaboratively in various musical situations with composer/performers Simon Emmerson, Zubin Kanga, David Toop, Klaus Filip, Robin Hayward, Kouhei Harada, Dario Sanfilippo, Johannes Sistermanns, Peter Knight, Joel Stern, James Rushford, Johannes Luebbers, Dan Thorne, Sean Little, and Michael Bednall.
Refer to http://www.decibelnewmusic.com/
Stuart James is an audio engineer based in Perth, Western Australia. After becoming increasingly involved as a studio session performer since 2003, Stuart also became involved with recording, mixing, and mastering, and consequently learned privately with engineers Cliff Blackburn and John Villani, and spent time with mastering engineer Martin Pullan. Between 2001 and 2006 Stuart was undertaking a large number of jobs as an arranger, orchestrator, and music typesetter, and these skills fed into his studio work. Between 2006 and 2011 Stuart was also working as a ProTools and Sibelius tutor for high school teachers as part of Kosmic Sounds XPD Division, Australia's largest independent music store. In 2007 and 2008 Stuart tutored secondary school students in studio production as part of a careers program at Murdoch College. Several of Stuart's studio jobs in 2007 for Will Stoker and the Embers and Pyromesh ended up getting signed to Australia's largest independent label Shock Records and Firestarter Records. After increasing demand as a producer and mixing engineer, Stuart opened his own commercial recording studio with Cliff Blackburn in 2010, The Soundfield Studio, and has since been recording and mixing notable artists including ShockOne, Kele Okereke, JMSN, Ta-ku, Loston, Jamie Page, and many others. Stuart's mixing/mastering has been released on Australian labels Ministry of Sound Australia, Shock Records, Warner Music, Firestarter, Listen|Hear, Hospital Hill, Flaming Pines, Heartless Robot, and International labels Screamworks, Viper, Mode, Pogus, Brusion, and Juno Records. Stuart's research in spatial audio, sound synthesis, and psychoacoustics have also significantly fed into his practice as an engineer. Regular music transcription and analysis have informed Stuart's work as a producer and engineer.
Stuart's practice as an engineer involves both analog, digital, and hybrid approaches to recording, mixing, and mastering in the studio. With over half a million dollars worth of equipment in the studio, this system has provided an opportunity to become proficient in a large range of studio equipment from the 1950s through 2010s. In 2017 Stuart will be focussing more specifically on production and mixing.
Refer to http://www.soundfieldstudio.com/
Stuart's practice as an engineer involves both analog, digital, and hybrid approaches to recording, mixing, and mastering in the studio. With over half a million dollars worth of equipment in the studio, this system has provided an opportunity to become proficient in a large range of studio equipment from the 1950s through 2010s. In 2017 Stuart will be focussing more specifically on production and mixing.
Refer to http://www.soundfieldstudio.com/
Stuart James is an academic who has an interest in programming, digital signal processing, and interactive systems, and is based in Perth, Western Australia. Stuart developed an interest in programming at an early age when he developed a graphics editor program as a christmas present for his sister when he was 8 on the Commodore 64. Stuart also took an interest in the Commodores audio synthesis capabilities, also exploring these at the time. It wasn't until Stuart was amidst a tertiary degree in music composition at the University of Western Australia that he studied a computer programming elective at the faculty of Computer Science in 1997. It was much later during a Masters research project that Stuart extended his previous computer programming experience in Pascal and C to the audio programming environments Max/MSP and Csound. For a while these environments, including Supercollider, were adequate, until Stuart's research presented some very specific requirements that could only be facilitated by a lower-level programming language. The more immediate solution at the time was to embed Java and Javascript into this environment. A number of projects so far have been prototyped in a combination of MaxMSP, Java, Javascript, and gen~ including the Cage Variations project by the Decibel New Music Ensemble that Stuart was integral to, and Stuart's own research in Timbre Spatialisation implemented in the frequency domain. Stuart was also responsible for an early prototpye of The Talking Board score on the iPad in Objective-C, before this development project officially became The Decibel ScorePlayer application developed and maintained by Aaron Wyatt.
In 2008, Stuart began working as a sessional lecturer at the West Australian Academy of Performing Arts. In this role Stuart became more involved with programmable hardware systems such as Arduino, and of course the programming of visual systems in environments such as Processing. In 2015, Stuart also completed his PhD at the West Australian Academy of Performing Arts researching timbre spatialisation, and developing software to facilitate the intuitive and flexible control of large parametric systems. Since graduating from his doctorate, Stuart has become a full-time member of staff at the West Australian Academy of Performing Arts, and has been diversifying his own research in the areas of music analysis, sound synthesis, interactive systems, sound spatialisation, psychoacoustics and perception theory, music notation and digital score delivery, and historiographical research. Stuart has also been extending his programming experience in Objective-C, C++, Faust, and Juce.
In 2008, Stuart began working as a sessional lecturer at the West Australian Academy of Performing Arts. In this role Stuart became more involved with programmable hardware systems such as Arduino, and of course the programming of visual systems in environments such as Processing. In 2015, Stuart also completed his PhD at the West Australian Academy of Performing Arts researching timbre spatialisation, and developing software to facilitate the intuitive and flexible control of large parametric systems. Since graduating from his doctorate, Stuart has become a full-time member of staff at the West Australian Academy of Performing Arts, and has been diversifying his own research in the areas of music analysis, sound synthesis, interactive systems, sound spatialisation, psychoacoustics and perception theory, music notation and digital score delivery, and historiographical research. Stuart has also been extending his programming experience in Objective-C, C++, Faust, and Juce.
Stuart James is a composer and sound artist based in Perth, Western Australia. At the age of 8 before formal lessons in music, Stuart began developing an interest in composing and transcribing music from audio recordings and television, and working with a Sequential Circuits Synthesizer. In 1993, Stuart began studying music composition with American composer Allison Applebaum as part of the EVOS Young Composers Workshop held at the University of Western Australia. Stuart then studied composition privately with Perth composer Cathie Travers between 1993 and 1994. In 1994 Stuart won the state finals of the ASME young composers’ competition, and his orchestral piece was subsequently performed by the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra. Stuart since completed a tertiary degree in music composition receiving first-class honors studying with Nigel Butterly (AUS), Anthony Payne (UK), Lindsay Vickery (AUS), and Roger Smalley (UK), and won the Dorothy Ransom composition prize whilst studying at the University of Western Australia. Stuart has since been nominated numerous times for Australian Music Centre Awards for his percussion pieces Temperaments and Kinabuhi | Kamatayon, and has had performances by the West Australian Symphony Orchestra New Music Ensemble, the Decibel New Music Ensemble, Tetrafide Ensemble, the Doggox Art Orchestra, and notable performers including Michael Kieran Harvey, Louise Devenish, and Raymond Yong. His works have been performed nationally (Perth, Sydney, Brisbane) and internationally (USA, Italy, Poland, Slovakia). Stuart has received commissions from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), Decibel New Music Ensemble, Tetrafide Ensemble, the WASO New Music Ensemble, percussionist Louise Devenish, and several commissions from visual artist Erin Coates.
Stuart began tutoring composition at Hale School between 2008 and 2009. During this time Stuart also became increasingly involved as a lecturer and tutor at the West Australian Academy of Performing Arts as part of Edith Cowan University where he has been working since 2007, and now works as a full-time lecturer as part of the composition and music technology course offered there.
Stuart's current work reflects a diversity of composition practice ranging from acoustic and electroacoustic concert music, acousmatic music, spatial music, electronic music and production, AV and multimedia installation, interactive systems, and computer programming.
Stuart began tutoring composition at Hale School between 2008 and 2009. During this time Stuart also became increasingly involved as a lecturer and tutor at the West Australian Academy of Performing Arts as part of Edith Cowan University where he has been working since 2007, and now works as a full-time lecturer as part of the composition and music technology course offered there.
Stuart's current work reflects a diversity of composition practice ranging from acoustic and electroacoustic concert music, acousmatic music, spatial music, electronic music and production, AV and multimedia installation, interactive systems, and computer programming.
Stuart James is an academic and researcher based in Perth, Western Australia. In 2000 Stuart completed a tertiary degree in music composition at the University of Western Australia receiving first-class honors with research supervisor Emeritus Professor David Tunley. Stuart's research involved making a comparative analysis of medieval compositional techniques observed in both the Medieval period and the music of the 20th Century. In 2001, Stuart became an assistant to the Australian Society for Music Education (ASME) for whom he provided an analysis of Jennifer Fowler’s Echoes from an Antique Land to serve as a teaching aid for the TEE. Between 2001 and 2003 Stuart also worked as a peer assessor for the Young People & the Arts in association with the Ministry for Culture and the Arts (ArtsWA).
In 2005, Stuart completed a Masters in Creative Arts at the West Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA). where his research involved a systematic analysis of Wave Terrain Synthesis, a sound synthesis technique he investigated utilizing multidimensional wavetables. This research also involved elements of video to audio processes, and required Stuart further extend his previous computer programming experience in Pascal and C to the audio programming environments Max/MSP and Csound. In 2008, Stuart began working as a sessional lecturer at the West Australian Academy of Performing Arts. In 2015, Stuart also completed his PhD at the West Australian Academy of Performing Arts researching timbre spatialisation, and developing software to facilitate the intuitive and flexible control of large parametric systems. Since graduating from his doctorate, Stuart has become a full-time member of staff at the West Australian Academy of Performing Arts, and has been diversifying his own research in the areas of music analysis, sound synthesis, interactive systems, sound spatialisation, psychoacoustics and perception theory, music notation and digital score delivery, and historiographical research. Stuart has also been extending his programming experience in Java, Objective-C, C++, Faust, and Juce.
Refer to:
https://www.waapa.ecu.edu.au/about/our-staff/profiles/music-jazz-classical-contemporary-composition-and-music-technology/dr-stuart-james
https://edithcowan.academia.edu/StuartJames
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Stuart_James6
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0765-8724/
In 2005, Stuart completed a Masters in Creative Arts at the West Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA). where his research involved a systematic analysis of Wave Terrain Synthesis, a sound synthesis technique he investigated utilizing multidimensional wavetables. This research also involved elements of video to audio processes, and required Stuart further extend his previous computer programming experience in Pascal and C to the audio programming environments Max/MSP and Csound. In 2008, Stuart began working as a sessional lecturer at the West Australian Academy of Performing Arts. In 2015, Stuart also completed his PhD at the West Australian Academy of Performing Arts researching timbre spatialisation, and developing software to facilitate the intuitive and flexible control of large parametric systems. Since graduating from his doctorate, Stuart has become a full-time member of staff at the West Australian Academy of Performing Arts, and has been diversifying his own research in the areas of music analysis, sound synthesis, interactive systems, sound spatialisation, psychoacoustics and perception theory, music notation and digital score delivery, and historiographical research. Stuart has also been extending his programming experience in Java, Objective-C, C++, Faust, and Juce.
Refer to:
https://www.waapa.ecu.edu.au/about/our-staff/profiles/music-jazz-classical-contemporary-composition-and-music-technology/dr-stuart-james
https://edithcowan.academia.edu/StuartJames
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Stuart_James6
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0765-8724/
