James Weeks (UK, 1978) is a composer of concert music and live performance installations based in Gateshead and London. His work is typically focused on small groupings of voices and instruments, exploring elemental or primary musical materials and processes, either left bare or layered into dense polyphonic structures. He has strong interests in canon, modality, microtonality, open forms and scorings, embodied/haptic dimensions of sound, and plain-speaking. Major works include Schilderkonst (mixed ensembles, 2003-4), TIDE (ensemble and electronics, 2007-10), the South London Harmonies series (for various ensembles, 2008-11), Mala punica/Walled Garden (eight voices and six instruments, 2008-9/2015), The Freedom of the Earth (chorus and instruments, 2011), Three Trios (piano trio and tapes, 2010-11) and Radical Road (voices with stones, 2014). Three portrait discs of his music are currently available: TIDE performed by Apartment House (Métier 2013), mural performed by EXAUDI (confront records 2015) and Signs of Occupation, performed by Plus-Minus and others (Métier 2016). A fourth disc of Mala punica/Walled Garden will be released on Winter & Winter in early 2017. His music can also be heard on the Wandelweiser, HCR and NMC labels. He has worked with many leading performers including Plus-Minus, Apartment House, Quatuor Bozzini, London Sinfonietta, EXAUDI, Morgan/Dullea, Wandelweiser, Ensemble Pamplemousse, New London Chamber Choir, Uroboros Ensemble, Endymion, Alison Balsom

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