I am a musician and sometimes teacher, currently based in Ojai, California.
James Whipple
jameswhipple@gmail.com
hesaitix.net
Born 1985, Seattle, USA
Education
2008 BFA in Design & Technology, Parsons
Current
2021 Audio branding and music for Art Basel Intersections podcast series [link]
2020-2021 Research Consultant, WAALD Strategy & Advisory, Berlin [waald.de]
2021 Guest lecturer at Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus DK
2021 NFT exhibition with Petra Cortright, folia.app
Commissions / Residencies / Teaching
2019-2020 Guest Professor, Kunsthochschule Kassel, Kassel
2019 Artist Talk at Radio Nopal, Mexico City
2018 Guest Lecturer and Artist-In-Residence, Rytmisk Musikkonservatorium, Copenhagen, Denmark
2018 HESAITIX, audiovisual show originally commissioned by Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
2017 Belaief Artist Residency, Panicale, Italy
2016 4D-Sound: Points Along the Curve, Center for Media Art, Karlsruhe, Germany
2016 DECESSION, audiovisual show originally commissioned by Volksbühne, Berlin, Germany
2016-2018 FKK in Jugoslawien & Untitled (CRISPR Piece), collaborations with Aleksandra Domanovic, premiered at MoMA PS1 and later at MOCA Cleveland
Film Score
2016 Information Skies, a film by Metahaven
2014 From yu To me, a film by Aleksandra Domanovic
Gallery
2016 Palace Express Center, Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin
2015 Samos Drain, Installation at Art Space Pythagorean, Greece
Selected Bibliography
PSYOP, An Anthology, König Books, 2019
Whitney Wei, ‘It’s anarchy and hedonism’: Janus, the club night that reinvented Berlin, The Guardian, August 2018
Tess Edmonson, Janus, Flash Art, December 2016
Tayyab Amin, Follow & Mute, Pitchfork, May 2016
Raymond Cummings, Noise/Experimental Report, SPIN, September 2015
Nora Khan & Alex Iadarola, Meditating At The Piteous Gate, Dis, June 2015
Matthew Evans, Searching For A Sound That Doesn’t Exist, 032c, April 2014
Marc Schwegler, Space For The Homeless, Zweikommasieben, July 2014
Younger Than Jesus: Artist Directory, New Museum / Phaidon, 2009
Selected Discography
2019 Hart… Aber Fair! 7-track album, Janus
2019 Split, 4-track EP with Tzusing, PAN
2018 Inspired By True Story, 1-track single, premiered at Alexander Wang runway show
2017 Hesaitix, 11-Track Album, PAN
2016 Damaged Merc, 4-track EP, PAN
2016 Extrusus(2) & N.P.U., self-released
2015 Piteous Gate, 9-Track Album, PAN
2015 Infra-Dusk/Infra-Dawn, 2-Track Single, Black Ocean Strategies
2014 Scythians, 4-track EP, PAN
2014 Scythians+ (Japanese Version), PAN
2012 Share The Blame, 4-track EP, Dyssembler
2014-2019 Various remixes for Deena Abdelwahed (TN), Primitive Art (IT), We Will Fail (PL), Hyph11e (CN), and more
Selected Performance History (excluding DJ/nightclub events, these are live performances)
2012-2019
Resident at JANUS event series, Berlin, DE, Berghain
2019
Bangkok, TH, De Commune
Athens, GR, ROMANTSO
2018
London, UK, ICA
Barcelona, ES, Mira Festival
Kyiv, UA, Nextsound Festival
Panicale, IT, Elissi #2
Copenhagen, DK, Mayhem
Vienna, AT, Festwochen
Kyoto, JP, SOTO
London, UK, Southbank Centre
Belfast, UK, Sonorities
Brussels, BE, Beursschouwburg
Madrid, ES, Electronica en Abríl
Berlin, DE, Haus der Kulturen der Welt
Nantes, FR, Universite de Nantes
Barcelona, ES, Mutek
Bratislava, SK, Fuga
2017
Berlin, DE, Zeiss Großplanetarium
Venice, IT, Spazio Aero
Taipei, TW, Korner
Kiev, UA, Cxema
Düsseldorf, DE, Salon des Amateurs
Krems, AT, Donau Festival
Cervia, IT, Magma Festival, Magazzino Darsena
Brno, CZ, Forum for Architecture & Media
Bratislava, SK, MULTIPLACE Festival
2016
*Olomouc, CZ, PAF Festival
*Munich, DE, Münchner Kammerspiele
*Paris, FR, Transient Festival
Tromsø, NO, Insomnia Festival
Krakow, PL, Unsound Festival
Daugavpils, LV, Mark Rothko Center
Riga, LV, Skanu Mežs Festival
**London, UK, ICA
Aarhus, DK, Flux Festival
Moscow, RU, Delta Festival
Prague, CZ, Prague Museum Night
Batumi, GE, Unsound Georgia
*Berlin, DE, Decession at Volksbühne
Milan, IT, Club To Club
Barcelona, ES, Lapsus Festival
Brussels, BE, Ancienne Belgique
Amsterdam, NL, Sonic Acts Festival
2015
Phoenix, US, Threshold
Los Angeles, US, Threshold
**New York, US, MoMA PS1
Boston, US, DRAW
Vancouver, CA, Red Gate
Portland, US, Yale Union
Bucharest, RO, Dekolektiv
Amsterdam, NL, NEMO Science Museum
Milan, IT, Macao
Brussels, BE, Festival Feeërieën
New York, US, Trans-Pecos
Katowice, PL, Off Festival
Norberg, SE, Norberg Festival
Tokyo, JP, Liquid Room
Osaka, JP, Conpass
Amsterdam, NL, Sonic Acts Festival
Shipley, UK, Golden Cabinet
2014
Copenhagen, DK, Jazzhouse
Berlin, DE, Berghain
*: Performances as M.E.S.H. / Guidetti, with video by Michael Guidetti
**: Collaboration with Aleksandra Domanovic
Selected Work
Sound design work for film trailers and commercials [link]
Short video documenting aspects of a 2017 North American concert tour, including footage of the aftermath of the Thomas Fire
Album cover design