He produces work in a range of fields including musical composition, art exhibits/installations, sound design for film, radio programming and performance works in mediums such as dance.
He is a member of The Band Of Holy Joy, Tiger Walking Downhill and The Tramadols.
Contact: james.s.finn@gmail.com
James Stephen Finn
SEARCH:
RELEASES:
COLLABORATIONS:
APPEARANCES:
TWITTER:
LINKS:
Cotton Goods
Mobeer / Moteer
Resonance FM
Oso Records
Radio Joy
Band of Holy Joy
Fluid Radio
Simon James French
Manabu Shimada
Sebastian Aker
Aria Alagha
Kacper Ziemianin
Moize / Mimosa
KK/KK
Is
Felicity Ford
Sound:Site
The Boats
Iain Sinclair
Inga Tillere
Mining For Gold
Soundart Radio
ixi Software
Tony Gibbs
UbuWeb
Cafo Oto
Lansdown Centre
The Wire
Aki Pasoulas
Nela Brown
London Callin’ Presents The Fallen Leaves and The Tramadols
Wednesday 1st February 2012, 7.30pm
12 Bar
Denmark Street
London
WC2H 8NN
London Callin’ presents an evening of live music at the 12 Bar on Denmark Street, featuring live performances from The Fallen Leaves, The Tramadols, Hot Hooves and Argonaut.
The Tramadols will be on stage at 10.45pm.
£6 entry fee on the door.
Band Of Holy Joy Live at The Montague Arms, New Cross
Thursday 22nd December 2011, 7.30pm
The Montague Arms
289 Queens Road
New Cross, London
SE15 2PA
Symptomatic presents The Band Of Holy Joy performing live at The Montague Arms in New Cross with guests.
Support is from Beata Positiva, Hillfield and Stone, and DJ Jonny Mugwump.
Tickets are £8 (£6 for concessions) in advance. Available from See Tickets.
http://www.seetickets.com/Event/THE-BAND-OF-HOLY-JOY/The-Montague-Arms/602235
Band Of Holy Joy Live at The Hope, Brighton
Wednesday 14th December 2011, 7.30pm
The Hope
Brighton, East Sussex
BN1 3WA
Symptomatic presents The Band Of Holy Joy performing live at The Hope in Brighton with guests.
Support is from Eliza Jaye & The Tarts and Kinnie The Explorer.
Tickets are £8 (£6 for concessions) in advance. Available from Ticketweb.
https://www.ticketweb.co.uk/user/?region=gb_south&query=detail&event=474136
Radio Joy Presents ‘Beuys Will Be Beuys’ at The Residents, Thessaloniki
Sunday 11th December 2011, 9.30pm
Residents Bar
Stratigou Kallari 4A,
Thessaloniki
Greece
‘Beuys will be Beuys’ is an audio visual poem inspired by the fall to earth and subsequent resurrection of Josef Beuys. With text by Johny Brown, and featuring visuals by Inga Tillere, and sound design by James Stephen Finn and Cris Lapthorne.
James Stephen Finn will start the night off by performing a solo noise set.
And to cap the night off Johny Brown (Band Of Holy Joy) will join Minor Mine, to perform songs by both Minor Mine and Band Of Holy Joy.
Doors open at 9.30pm.
London Callin’ Presents The Fallen Leaves
Wednesday 7th December 2011, 7.30pm
12 Bar
Denmark Street
London
WC2H 8NN
London Callin’ presents a night of live music at the 12 Bar on Denmark Street, featuring live performances from The Fallen Leaves, The Tramadols, The Transients, Trees & The Slipway and James Levy & Alison Pierce.
£6 entry fee on the door.
‘Live Sessions 2010’ by Tiger Walking Downhill
Live recordings from Kacper Ziemianin and Peter Smith, featuring guest appearances from James Stephen Finn and Hubert Winczyk on a bonus track recorded during a live performance at The Foundry in Shoreditch, London.
Limited edition of 50 copies with hand-printed CDs and sleeves. Design by Kamil Korolczuk and Polina Joffe.
Available only at Tiger Walking Downhill live shows, from Oso records. The first show that these CDs will be available for purchase will be today at Audio Art Festival in Poland.
Abbey Road and Other Stories
21st to 26th November 2011, 10am to 7pm (Monday to Friday, until 4pm on Saturday)
The Gallery, London College Of Communication
Elephant and Castle
London
SE1 6SB
Featuring works by: Richard Coles / Andrew Davidson / Andrew Espin / Geoff Howse / Jack James / Ariel Karsh / Kiki / Charlie Kerr / Dario Khan / Kevin Logan / Giuseppe Scalese / Giulia Scarantino / Tadeo Sendon / Tom Soloveitzik / James Stephen Finn
Private View: Tuesday 22 November, 6 – 9pm
Symposium: Saturday 26 November, 11 – 4pm
RSVP: events@lcc.arts.ac.uk
Presenting new works by fifteen sound artists, Abbey Road and Other Stories offers an in-depth enquiry into the languages and systems of sound in the arts.
Taking the title from James Stephen Finn’s installation ‘How Abbey Road Destroyed Rock and Roll’, which itself emulates the title of Elijah Wald’s revisionist music history How the Beatles Destroyed Rock ‘n’ Roll, the exhibition reveals alternative strategies of listening to and interacting with sound.
Kiki, Espin and Khan approach the capacity of sound for evoking and performing places, their stories and histories, whilst the performative works of Logan, Scarantino, Howse and James explore sound as an activator whether of spaces and objects or the narratives of politics and people.
Dealing with the systems of sound and the evaluation of their mechanisms Coles, Kerr, Davidson and Sendon take us into the machine, pushing sound equipment to interesting extremes or playing with the languages and virtual manifestations of technology.
New works by Soloveitzik and Scalese document and play with ideas of subjective and aesthetic values, whilst Karsh invokes a character from the devoted extremes of sound and its manipulation, a heavy metal sound mixer born from the machines and myths of music.
To coincide with the exhibition CRiSAP’s (Centre for Creative Research in Sound Arts Practice) will be hosting a symposium at London College of Communication on the relationship between sound arts practice and sound research with Dr. Ximena Alarcon, Dr. Nye Parry and Dr. Alice Eldridge and chaired by CRiSAP’s director Angus Carlyle. The symposium is free however booking is required. Please RSVP to: events@lcc.arts.ac.uk
Abbey Road and Other Stories is curated by Mark Jackson and Morgan Quaintance and supported by London College of Communication and CRiSAP. The exhibition presents the final work of the MA Sound Arts graduates of London College of Communication.
Tramadol Nights
Saturday 12th November 2011, 9pm
Mascara Bar
72 Stamford Hill Road
London
N16 6XS
A night of live music at Mascara Bar in Stoke Newington on Saturday 12th November, featuring performances from Hest, The Tramadols, The Valkarys and Kaiz La Kazie, with DJs too.
Free entry.
‘Live At Cafe Oto’ by Damo Suzuki and God Don’t Like It Ensemble
Recorded live at Cafe Oto, Dalston, London on 8th July 2011. Performed by Damo Suzuki of CAN, with Graham Dunning (turntables), James Stephen Finn (synthesizer), Alice French (flute), Marcus Hamblett (electronics), Justin Paton (bass), Craig Tamlin (drums), Georgina Treloar (xylophone) and Koichi Yamanoha (guitar). Event organised by Anthony Chalmers.
Made available by the OpenSoundGroup, this release can be downloaded in MP3 format here.
http://www.archive.org/download/DamoSuzukiAndGodDontLikeItEnsemble-LiveAtCafeOto/DamoSuzukiAndGodDontLikeItEnsemble-LiveAtCafeOto_vbr_mp3.zip
