James Hazel (@poor_opera) is a composer. artist, writer, and social researcher working on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung people.
As someone who grew up in social-housing, Hazel’s socio-sonic practice draws on embodied working-class utterances, vocalities, and imaginaries to explore modes of pre(care)ious listening, labouring, and “making do” under the temporal thresholds of neoliberal precarity.
Revelling in (in)sincerity, humour, contradiction, and failure, Hazel works through a ‘houso-poetics’ of lo-fi scores, bricolage, and collaborative interventions across sound, performance, writing, radio, music, pedagogy, and community practice.
Scores as structures; structures as scores.
James is currently a PhD Candidtate in Sociology and Culutral Studies at the University of Melbourne.