About

Jamie Hamilton is a composer, performer, and multimedia artist.

He combines sound, multimedia, technology, and words to create music exploring how we listen is linked to our perception of the world. His work combines fragments of disparate elements to tell abstract stories about technology and belief. This often revolves around collaborative devising processes, in which sound acts as an organising device integrating other practitioners.

Jamie’s work has been performed, exhibited, and created in many contexts, ranging from an abandoned grain silo to concert halls and opera houses.

His music has been broadcast on BBC1, BBC2, BBC4, and BBC Radio 3, amongst others.

He has collaborated with artists such as Elaine Mitchener, Lucy Railton, Silje Aker Johnsen, the author Luke Williams (Goldsmith Prize 2022), poet Caroline Bergvall, and choreographers such as Sung Im Her and Dam Van Huynh.

Past commissions include Eklekto Percussion, Tate Britain, The Place (LSCD), London Contemporary Music Festival, The City of London, the Hong Kong Academy of the Performing Arts (HKAPA), and the National Dance Company of Mexico. In January 2014 he was a recipient of the International Artists' Development Fund from the British Council with Dam Van Huynh.

He also works with artists and musicians creating bespoke electronic environments - light, sound, animatronics, interactivity, and code - for creative projects.

He was the curator of the performance event collective London Topophobia, and is co-leader of Phaedra Ensemble.

He lives and works in London.