https://jamiehamilton.net Jamie Hamilton Fri, 05 Dec 2025 09:31:15 +0000 https://jamiehamilton.net en https://jamiehamilton.net/Composer-Multimedia-Artist Sat, 05 Nov 2022 11:52:02 +0000 Jamie Hamilton https://jamiehamilton.net/Composer-Multimedia-Artist CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS: Voice, story, music: Workshops for people who stammer. &lt;More info&gt; UPCOMING DATES: 23 February: A Mouth In Search Of A Voice (Part 1) Peformed by Phaedra Ensemble. The Guildhall, Portsmouth.&nbsp;&lt;Tickets&gt; 20 March: Arrangement of John Coltrane’s Africa/Brass for string quartet and electronics. King’s Place, London. &lt;Tickets&gt;RECENT: 5 December 2025: Index of Four (Instrumental Version) Release on Collapsing Drums label. &lt;Listen&gt; 6 November 2025: Performance with Caroline Bergvall &lt;Aldeburgh Poetry Festival, Aldeburgh&gt; 21 October 2025: An Index Of Everything solo performance &lt;Cafe Oto, London&gt; https://jamiehamilton.net/Index-Of-Four-Instrumental-Version Fri, 05 Dec 2025 09:31:15 +0000 Jamie Hamilton https://jamiehamilton.net/Index-Of-Four-Instrumental-Version <img width="1000" height="1000" width_o="1000" height_o="1000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0cac85faa3f2cf72c2fb2a96388733d9ec2b40f189fc7d1c39fc61102cc5edc6/IndexOfFour_Cover_Small.png" data-mid="241444216" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0cac85faa3f2cf72c2fb2a96388733d9ec2b40f189fc7d1c39fc61102cc5edc6/IndexOfFour_Cover_Small.png" /> Index Of Four (Instrumental Version) (2025) Performed by Jamie Hamilton &amp; Phaedra Ensemble An instrumental preview track from the new project An Index Of Everything Released on the compilation Collapsing Tape: Experiments in Rupture and Repair on the Collapsing Drums label.Collapsing Tape: Experiments in Rupture and Repair by Jamie Hamilton Credits: Composition, Production: Jamie Hamilton Performance: Phaedra Ensemble Violin: Phillip Granell Viola: Richard Jones Flute: Dan Shao Bass Clarinet: George Sleightholme https://jamiehamilton.net/Versionland Mon, 04 Nov 2024 11:06:20 +0000 Jamie Hamilton https://jamiehamilton.net/Versionland var robotsMeta = document.querySelector('meta[name="robots"]'); if (robotsMeta) { robotsMeta.setAttribute('content', 'noindex, nofollow'); } Versionland Jamie Hamilton &amp; Phaedra Ensemble New album released on Don’t Look Back Records 29th November 2024.First single Test Tubes released November 8th 2024. Second single Strange Song released November 22nd 2024. Bandcamp Stream Test Tubes Streaming LinksStrange Song Streaming Links The Quietus Album of the Week“Hamilton thrives at exploring the textures possible when blending acoustic instrumentation and technology, particularly in the album’s swarming, often overwhelming, tone clusters and his vocal shifts [...] That is what makes Versionland so surreal – its pure embrace and acceptance of the unexplainable.” -Vanessa Ague, The Quietus <img width="1500" height="1500" width_o="1500" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b9ee8e75f0a3c35ac5dea41d4bcc888826cc0e1d39b5422f0dbe38f5f5da96cd/Cover-TestTubes-Small.png" data-mid="221132858" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b9ee8e75f0a3c35ac5dea41d4bcc888826cc0e1d39b5422f0dbe38f5f5da96cd/Cover-TestTubes-Small.png" /> <img width="1500" height="1500" width_o="1500" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/26d222618e403042c58a4a5dfa46f0d44b6e3b81d5c4fff6b7e90a7c215c53be/Cover-StrangeSong-Small.png" data-mid="221132859" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/26d222618e403042c58a4a5dfa46f0d44b6e3b81d5c4fff6b7e90a7c215c53be/Cover-StrangeSong-Small.png" /> <img width="1500" height="1500" width_o="1500" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7f1e4b855d06cf2831c1993ee0e80bc559c9212fd5fbcaf1b2a3ffb8af9550da/Cover-Small.png" data-mid="221132857" border="0" data-scale="64" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7f1e4b855d06cf2831c1993ee0e80bc559c9212fd5fbcaf1b2a3ffb8af9550da/Cover-Small.png" /> Versionland is a new album by composer Jamie Hamilton and contemporary chamber group Phaedra Ensemble. It is a prismatic collection of songs and fragments about 'The Hum’ – an unexplained sound reported by people in certain geographic locations. Versionland fuses instrumental music, text, and sound design into an expansive satire on catastrophe and transformation. Through maximalist, genre-weirding arrangements, and overlapping streams of language, it imagines The Hum as a malign force destroying the world. Drawing from thousands of pages of enthusiasts' explorations of The Hum found in obscure corners of the internet – re-enactments, recording experiments, and conspiracy theories – Hamilton used early neural network technology to process and reimagine these texts. Collaborating with Phaedra Ensemble, he transformed this material into a series of scored pieces, improvisations, and experimental recordings. Through machine listening – a technology that allows computers to interpret and reimagine sounds – the recordings were reconstructed into dataset facsimiles, creating bizarre instrumental and vocal masses that splinter and mutate. Each iteration of this process fed back into new performances, transcriptions and transformations, blurring the line between human interpretation and technological intervention. The resulting album is a darkly humorous fever-dream on paranoia and internet-age mythology. Versionland was supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England, and was made possible by Sound and Music's New Voices programme. With thanks to the Marchus Trust and the Vaughan Williams Foundation for additional funding. &nbsp;<img width="1191" height="320" width_o="1191" height_o="320" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f1bfb1453625ae6b4c211556049e098c7ec5a0bca1b6accc85bd95f59afec81a/lottery_Logo_Black-RGB.png" data-mid="222041477" border="0" data-scale="32" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f1bfb1453625ae6b4c211556049e098c7ec5a0bca1b6accc85bd95f59afec81a/lottery_Logo_Black-RGB.png" /> <img width="428" height="125" width_o="428" height_o="125" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4074561f8b6024b4a19bd2f47fd1e7d538d4d3267bab8c5f1e4fbc502a443e03/Vaughan-Williams-Foundation-Logo-1-e1695742641210.png" data-mid="222041471" border="0" data-scale="26" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/428/i/4074561f8b6024b4a19bd2f47fd1e7d538d4d3267bab8c5f1e4fbc502a443e03/Vaughan-Williams-Foundation-Logo-1-e1695742641210.png" /> &nbsp;<img width="2057" height="514" width_o="2057" height_o="514" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a1319242521cf58295027983b483c764c54863ed264367188df1bd125cd8b7d4/Sound-and-Music-Logo-Transparent.png" data-mid="222041475" border="0" data-scale="40" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a1319242521cf58295027983b483c764c54863ed264367188df1bd125cd8b7d4/Sound-and-Music-Logo-Transparent.png" /> https://jamiehamilton.net/Funeral-Music Mon, 23 Sep 2024 10:53:22 +0000 Jamie Hamilton https://jamiehamilton.net/Funeral-Music <img width="2363" height="2954" width_o="2363" height_o="2954" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5f53b9172b5fa62a9882be396f02d67aadd86ef0de1cd4e154dafa0d220c0d9b/Flyer_FuneralMusic.jpg" data-mid="218524107" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5f53b9172b5fa62a9882be396f02d67aadd86ef0de1cd4e154dafa0d220c0d9b/Flyer_FuneralMusic.jpg" /> Funeral Music (2023) Music/dance theatre, for three performersDeath, obsolescence, and trombones. “The interplay of dance, music by Jamie Hamilton and spoken word is precise and inspired“ -&nbsp;Iris Kilian, The Place Funeral Music was supported by Centre 151. https://jamiehamilton.net/Versionland-Video-Multimedia-Version Sat, 05 Nov 2022 13:09:38 +0000 Jamie Hamilton https://jamiehamilton.net/Versionland-Video-Multimedia-Version <img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/be79b74adda95d2f4a1e425f90659f54a5e390b700879df24146491fb047a31c/Vland15.jpg" data-mid="171882099" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/be79b74adda95d2f4a1e425f90659f54a5e390b700879df24146491fb047a31c/Vland15.jpg" /> <img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/803f46ae8f696bc25f828328f57b82744da273d3112c3044d23b974ab4129424/VLand1.jpg" data-mid="171882082" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/803f46ae8f696bc25f828328f57b82744da273d3112c3044d23b974ab4129424/VLand1.jpg" /> <img width="3840" height="2160" 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<img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9264f536c4414936f88a9ca010e89a840e9c82c31e3e56bd83c0411e48b0e20e/Vland11.jpg" data-mid="171882097" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9264f536c4414936f88a9ca010e89a840e9c82c31e3e56bd83c0411e48b0e20e/Vland11.jpg" /> <img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3bf1a9215815cfdfaea8302cb052cf4ba559e67ff63a5ed5a7165a9fbd5cf7b2/Vland4.jpg" data-mid="171882091" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3bf1a9215815cfdfaea8302cb052cf4ba559e67ff63a5ed5a7165a9fbd5cf7b2/Vland4.jpg" /> <img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f1a8e53f09b0e1a412a05eba7612425cd385460477a7e5cf97ae5cb9e12ceccf/Vland2.jpg" data-mid="171882087" border="0" 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This is about the multimedia version of Versionland. For the forthcoming updated album version, please see here. Premiere: 20th February 2023, Cafe OTO, London. Versionland is a video opera telling stories written by an artificial intelligence about the creation and destruction of the world by a sound known as ‘The Hum’. The Hum is a disputed acoustic phenomenon that happens in many places throughout the world, in which hearers claim to hear an unexplained, untraceable sound. Versionland takes as its influence the myriad responses people have to The Hum - re-enactments, recording experiments, conspiracy theories, spoofs, and bad jokes. Hamilton began developing the project through browsing dark web forums, old Yahoo mailing lists and other forgotten corners of the internet, where he encountered thousands of pages of enthusiasts’ exploration of The Hum. He downloaded these, and trained an AI upon this material, generating texts, ideas, experiments and profane ramblings. After sifting through this digital detritus, he developed the work through a series of recorded devising sessions with Phaedra Ensemble, as part of Sound and Music’s New Voices programme. These were edited and fed through other AIs, neural nets and algorithms to create a prismatic, feature-length video opera, drawing in an encyclopaedic range of influences, from British Variety Acts and Kareoke, to noise music and speech synthesis. -- Credits Sound, Text, Video by Jamie Hamilton Man 1 / Voice, Accordion: Christopher Preece Woman 1 / Mezzo-Soprano: Rosie Middleton Woman 2 / Voice, Violin: Emma Smith Man 2 / Voice, Viola: Richard Jones Woman 3 / Voice, Cello: Laura Moody Versionland was supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England, and was made possible by Sound and Music's New Voices programme. With thanks to the Marchus Trust and the Vaughan Williams Foundation for additional funding. https://jamiehamilton.net/Three-Fragments-November Sat, 05 Nov 2022 13:02:20 +0000 Jamie Hamilton https://jamiehamilton.net/Three-Fragments-November <img width="1000" height="1000" width_o="1000" height_o="1000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3be7638803eb63b6ce17838c65279b8e7ce6882af9e970456e91c6bd011cf07f/3-Fragments.jpg" data-mid="158594049" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3be7638803eb63b6ce17838c65279b8e7ce6882af9e970456e91c6bd011cf07f/3-Fragments.jpg" /> Excerpts: Your browser does not support the audio element Your browser does not support the audio element Three Fragments, November (2022) Collaborative EP with Phaedra Ensemble, Mira Calix, Bishi Bhattacharya &amp; Love Ssega For string trio, french horn, and audio diaries Three sonic portraits of Bishi Bhattacharya, Mira Calix and Love Ssega have been created for this new EP using audio diaries and other soundbites from the artists’ daily lives. Phaedra Ensemble have interpreted and instrumentalised these recordings in their own idiosyncratic ways before blending and fusing the resulting recordings with the original soundbites to produce an inimitable collage reflecting the personalities of each artist. &nbsp; Download Link (October House Records) 3 Fragments, November was supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England, and was commissioned by October House Records. https://jamiehamilton.net/Waiting-Music Sat, 05 Nov 2022 14:13:12 +0000 Jamie Hamilton https://jamiehamilton.net/Waiting-Music <img width="2482" height="2482" width_o="2482" height_o="2482" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b5308306dcb329f4fcd259ada276dbba80b40035a4dfeca004fe321afad59529/Dom_Waiting-Music_insta.jpg" data-mid="158595222" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b5308306dcb329f4fcd259ada276dbba80b40035a4dfeca004fe321afad59529/Dom_Waiting-Music_insta.jpg" /> Waiting Music (2022) Music/dance theatre, for two performers The men you see on stage work on night shifts in a dreary call-centre where nothing much happens - where they don’t quite see a future for themselves but where the alternative of going off-script seems equally unfathomable.“The interplay of dance, music by Jamie Hamilton and spoken word is precise and inspired“ -&nbsp;Iris Kilian, The Place Waiting Music was supported by Centre 151. https://jamiehamilton.net/Nattsong Sat, 05 Nov 2022 13:02:45 +0000 Jamie Hamilton https://jamiehamilton.net/Nattsong Caroline Bergvall - Nattsong (live stream) from Estuary 2021. Nattsong (2021) Work by Caroline Bergvall, with sound design/collaboration by Jamie Hamilton, compositional fragments by Gavin Bryars, and soprano Peyee Chen. Nattsong is a new multi-sensory stage work in which poet–performer Caroline Bergvall takes an immersive journey into language, refuge and the night. Fusing words and music, poetry and performance, songwork and electronic projections into a singular, dreamlike and mesmerising whole. Nattsong is both personal and political – at once an immersive performance and, where feasible, a sound installation for multiple languages. Premiered at Turner Contemporary, Margate. Supported by Cement Field Arts, Estuary 2021, and Arts Council England. https://jamiehamilton.net/Activity-Report Sat, 05 Nov 2022 13:03:31 +0000 Jamie Hamilton https://jamiehamilton.net/Activity-Report O Superman EP by Phaedra Ensemble Activity Report (2021)For voice, guitar, strings and synth Released 5th February 2021 on Phaedra Ensemble’s ‘O Superman EP’.Performed by Phaedra Ensemble. Activity report features police activity digests published in local American newspapers. Each of these is a self-contained vignette of modern life; a short story broadcast as security theatre, equal parts mundane, touching, and sinister. These stories collide with slide guitar, but distorted and interrupted, like turning the dial on a radio receiver.&nbsp; Guitar/Voice/Whistling - Jamie Hamilton Violin + Viola - Phil Granell Cello - Sergio Serra Supported by Arts Council England’s Emergency Coronavirus Grants for Organisations. &nbsp; https://jamiehamilton.net/O-Superman-EP Sat, 05 Nov 2022 13:03:45 +0000 Jamie Hamilton https://jamiehamilton.net/O-Superman-EP O Superman EP by Phaedra Ensemble Link to streaming services O Superman EP (2021) 3 Track EP with Phaedra Ensemble Released 5th February 2021.Featuring Jamie Hamilton’s arrangement of ‘O Superman’ by Laurie Anderson and new work ‘Activity Report’.Performed by Phaedra Ensemble with Jamie Hamilton (voice/guitar). Supported by Arts Council England’s Emergency Coronavirus Grants for Organisations.