James Howard is a Jaadwa composer and songman and has been actively working with music for about 15 years.

He’s doing a PhD through the Wilin Centre at the University of Melbourne, looking at ways to reconnect to an Indigenous heritage through arts practice.

James says, “I feel like the ambient soundscapes speak more to connection to Country and place, while the songwriting is more about this process of reconnection, being raised in a white Australian setting and coming to terms with what it means to be passing as white and Indigenous at the same time.”

That was his motivation for looking at identity and place through a sound lens, looking for a personal statement on how these reconnections can be made.

“The thinking about identity and place informs the practice, which then informs the thinking again, and it just keeps on developing. The same can be said about the songwriting.” He adds.

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