Rose James, is a Dunedin based sonic artist and DJ whose practice focuses on creating large scale sound installations and experimental music performances, while every now and then going out and playing techno in clubs.
Her practice often engages sound and spatiality to explore the intersection of architecture and acoustic space. Utilising her own field recordings James weaves together soundfields using DJing techniques to create unique compositions that reveal aspects of our environments hither to unheard.
Past work has been focused on developing methods of capturing sonic structural and vibrational activity of the built environment. The outcome of this part of her practice has been expressed in large scale installations where vibrational and resonance are foregrounded, while hidden sonic ecologies of our structural environments are uncovered. Over the last few years James’s practice has expanded to include field recordings of the natural environment- in part due to Covid restrictions- and a stronger emphasis on live performance and composition.
EDUCATION
2011 Master of Art & Design, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland.
2009 Bachelor of Spatial Design, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland.
EXHIBITIONS
2018 Through A Cloud Of Smoke And Dust Centre of Contemporary Art, Christchurch, solo show.
2015 (in a blessed parenthesis, in a vacuum of promise), 57 Crawford Street, Dunedin, group show.
2013 Resonance, Enjoy Gallery, Wellington, solo show.
2011 Through My Body To Your Body And Back, St Pauls Street Gallery, Auckland, solo show of Masters final exhibition.
2008 Replicated Communities, Prague Stage and Theatre Quadrennial, New Zealand student representative.
LIVE PERFORMANCES
2023 Koputai Sound School, opening night performance, 27th Jan 2023, The Anteroom, Port Chalmers.
2021 A Quiet Noise: Halloween 30th Oct 2021, Pioneer Hall, Port Chalmers.
2020 A Quiet Noise Summer presents: Ambient Breakfast, 18 jan 2020, Adjo cafe, 10 bank st, Dunedin.
2019 eRikm and Anthony Pateras, du Miel pour les oreilles tour, Support . 27 October 2019, 2 Jutland st, Dunedin.
2019 Nocturnal Projections and Other Small Happenings Festival of Light and Sound, closing evening performance, 27th July 2019, The Gas Works, 20 Braemar st, Dunedin.
2019 A Quiet Noise: Winter, 14th June 2019, RdC, 346 George st, Dunedin.