(UNDER)
SCORING THE COMMONS (2021-)


Gosford Regional Gallery; University of Helsinki; World Forum for Acoustic Ecology, Avant Project (Poland)
Ongoing sonic research and performance activity exploring the relationship between shared lives and livelihoods  across working-class social  spaces derealised by precarity, and development working with local ensembles, brassbands, community volunteers and  interviews with youth in low-SES regions.





POOR OPERA(TIONS) TRILOGY (2022-)


PACT CENTRE; LIQUID ARCHITECTURE (MONO-POLY); LIVING ROOM THEATRE

POOR/PARA OPERA(TIONS) is an exploratory ‘poor’ opera trilogy  concerned with making ‘cheap performances within one’s means’ across the three ecologies. The first iteration B(Z)LOOM ANONYMOU$ was performed as part of Liquid Architecture’s MONO-POLY; the second iteration THE MARINE ROOM, was performed and developed at PACT Centre with mentorship from choreographer Martin Del Amo.

Collective comprised of: Gadigal/Bidgigal/Yuin Elder, Rhonda Dixon-Grovenor, Kaz Therese, James Hazel
(concerned with intersecting, lived experiences of poverty - across micro-geographies in an era of radical change) with a host of collaborators to articulate what ‘class’ means within the contemporary world and arts landscape through sound, text, and experimental performance.



POOR ACOUSTICS: CLASSED VOCALITIES (2023)


GUEST-EDITED EDITION OF LIQUID ARCHITECTURE: DISCLAIMER JOURNAL


https://disclaimer.org.au/contents/poor-acoustics-classed-vocalities

A collection of performance, video, scores, poetry, and essays that foregrounds working class vocalities/legacies using un(common) sonic dissonance to foster sharp commentary and working class solidarity and sociality. 



PRE(CARE)IOUS SCORES (2020-)

Livedreams/Performance Space, ADSR ZINE, RTM.FM


(exploring classed/trauma’d embodiments through working-class vocality text, voice and utterence)  

i. hidden injuries (for voice and fixed media)
ii. transposing aspiration (for voice and field recordings






Introductory essay to collection of essays and creative works on the subject of working-class art practice

https://disclaimer.org.au/contents/poor-acoustics-classed-vocalities





CLASS ACTIONS/
CLASS WORK

(2023)
The Ethics Centre
Political pamphlet produced by CLASS ACTIONS Collective on classed-pedagogies and participation in the arts. Designed by SEPT.  Design Studio


Critial response to Kaz Therese’s ‘Sleeplessness’



The Big C Word; Class and Classical Music

(2020): Limelight Magazine
02–26–24
Sociological Research into the lack of cultural accesibility in classical music culture - accompanied by images from Elia Bosshard’s Assembly of Arenas series

Link to article


ADSR ZINE: SURVIVE AND THRIVE

(2023)
Political pamphlet on the exclusionary state of arts publishing in so-called Australia.


some things i should have told you  (2021)



for cello quartet, electronics and voice memos
Performed by Quartetto Zuena
at the  highSCORE Festival 2021 (Italy) Supported through CREATE NSW






tryin’ to find a way thru this malaise (2023)




for Solo Double Bass, performed and commissioned by Will Hansen

'tryin' to find a way through this malaise' explores the phenomenon of 'waiting' in late-Stage capitalism - drawing on plain-chant, no-wave, and working-class colloquialism(s).


entangled labours (2020)
(OR TOWARDS AN EXTENDED TRANSCRIPTION)

Video Lecture for Mixed Ensemble
Performed by Ensemble Offspring (Australia)




hum (2019)

for Mixed Ensemble
Performed by Ensemble Mise-En (New York)


intimacy (dependence) (2018)


for 2-6 instruments of similar ranges
Performed by Ensemble Terra






©MMXXII James Hazel
All scores, texts, works available via request