Sunday, 15 March 2026

Focus on James Foz Foster

 


James Foz Foster is a soundtrack composer, soundscape artist, 
guitarist, saw player, and collector of odd musical instruments. 

Foz is currently a member of The Monochrome Set and of David Devant & his Spirit wife. He is Musical director of Touched Theatre and composer and director of Sawchestra.

He creates soundtracks and sound art works for theatre, outdoor arts, installations and site specific projects.

Currently (2026) the show Holy Dirt, featuring Foz's soundscape, is touring the UK, commissioned by Without Walls.

Previous theatre/performance work includes: UNDERCLIFF (2021) and Box of Ghosts (2021) with Dorothy Max Prior; numerous soundtracks with Touched Theatre, including Twinkle (2019), which toured the UK and with Hidden Track Theatre; Sisters of Hera, an extensive site-responsive project in Tuscany with Dorothy Max Prior and Isobel Smith (2014), and numerous commissions for The Sawchestra.

Adrift with Foz – a monthly composed soundscape broadcast event

Drift off into a world of experimental acoustic and electronic sound compositions, each uniquely composed and recorded for each episode. With elements of found sounds, generated electronic signals, acoustic instruments, radio fragments, static and the spirit of the Shipping Forecast, each episode will have it’s own theme, routed in the seasons, drifting with the tides of everyday life while creating it’s own unique world. Expect Musical Saws, Whirlytubes, Bull-roarers, bells, whistles, unusual stringed instruments, theremins and weird synths, but always close to the shore of pleasant daydream and hopefully away from the squalls of nightmare. Above all, expect the unexpected! 

Adrift with Foz archive on Totally Radio

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