James Edward Barker

James Edward Barker (born 14 February 1980) is a British composer, music producer and film producer. Many of his music works include the hybrid mixture of sonic experimentation with grandiose classical motifs.

James Edward Barker is a composer, music producer and film producer from the UK. He is also a relation to Benjamin Frankel, one of Britain's most prolific and most successful film composers of all time. He is a self-taught musician from a young age, as well as later becoming classically trained at Newcastle University in the UK. His music suggests influences from an eclectic mix of genres from: Jazz and Blues, rock, Classical and more contemporary styles of Electronica and Dance music (including Drum n Bass and House). He is also a multi-instrumentalist, performing as a guitarist, percussionist, pianist and vocalist; and throughout his scores he performs a variety of alternative and ethnic instruments including: Tibetan Singing Bowls, Thai Saw Duang, African drums, Japanese Percussion (Taiko) Dilruba, Hammered Dulcimer, Glockenspiel and his scores often include performances on authentic and traditional instruments but in an experimental and contemporary fashion. Most distinctively, he experiments heavily with many leftfield techniques for his tones and sounds, including using items such as detuned music box, match box, bamboo and he has been quoted for using a number of modified live sampled recordings taken from various atmospheric locations around the world. He quotes Radiohead, Muse, Matthew Herbert, Django Reinhardt, Rachmaninov and film composers Hans Zimmer, Ennio Morricone and Christopher Young as some of his main influences, with the latter inspiring him to "experiment with children's toys". Other influences can be heard in his work, from bands such as The Crystal Method and Aphex Twin.

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