JAMES WYNESS
2026 ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
I'm a composer of electroacoustic music. I also make improvised music for guitars and hand-made instruments. I have an interest in creative placemaking and in rural environments, especially in Jedburgh, the small Scottish Borders town where I live. In these investigations I make work with photography, text, moving image. I frequently work in community settings. I have an MA (Hons) in French Studies and a PhD in Musical Composition, both from the University of Aberdeen.
Apokatastasis
Apokatastasis is a study in microtonality and the morphologies of metal resonance. Recordings of struck and bowed circular sawblades were transformed through small increments of timestretching, filtering and by composing layers of sound with varying gradients of pressure and density.
The idea of Apokatastasis may have been derived from the ancient concept of the cosmic cycle, which involves the notion of celestial bodies returning to their original positions after a period of time.
Apokatastasis implies the restoration of creation to a condition of perfection and in Christian theology the ultimate triumph of God's unconditional love. credits
released June 22, 2026
UNSTRUCK
For 2026 I’m working with the good people of The Austroneisan Embassy of Anaphoria Island. Unstruck is a series of three radiophonic works to be published over the course of 2026 as part of my residency with Anaphoria’s Radio Nabu Congol 98.8. Kraig Grady has inspired me throughout my long and arduous microtonal journey and it’s now a real pleasure to be able to contribute in some way to the incomparable work of Anaphoria.
Radio Nabu Congol focusses on new microtonal music but I chose to step back a little from composition and look at tuning in its wider sense. As well as exploring the theme of instrumental tunings I thought it would be interesting to consider how the radiophonic medium would accommodate a discursive ramble through the tangled undergrowth of how we might tune the mind, body, soul, spirit, environment and cosmos.
Thank you Sina, Kraig, Hannah and Keepr of Snales for your readings
