Excerpted from New Music Box: - Published April 1, 2005

The study of scientific journals, textbooks, and magazines has had a profound effect on both my sound work and the writings that invariably accompany it. For many years, anything relating to the human brain and its neurological underpinnings held me captive; a few of my interests in this area includedÑand in some cases still includeÑepilepsy, schizophrenia, autism, migraines, electric shock therapy, hallucinations, and physical injury to the brain and its aftermath (as in the case of Phineas Gage, for example, where a dramatic transformation of personality took place after an accident).

One of the major influences on my music of the past five years has been synesthesia, a condition that affects approximately one in 25,000 people. It is experienced as a sensation produced in one modality when a stimulus is applied to that of another, as when the mating call of an elk induces the visualization of a translucent latticework of electric blue lines before the viewer's eyes.

My work sets out to integrate the personal experience of both musician and audience with the scientific process of interpretation, fusing performance and perception. With this in mind, I have in several compositions used the phenomenon of synesthesia as a conceptual framework upon which to generate musical material. In Synaesthetic Improvisation II, for example, I have done this by providing a linguistic score for the musicians to follow, which consists of sentences that are highly charged with sensory information.   - James Goode

Musicians and groups James Goode has played and/or recorded with include: Bill Horist, John Zorn, David Slusser, Carrie Barclay, Jake Rodriguez, Joshua Churchill, Secret Chiefs 3, The Aerosols, Neil Hamburger, Dylan Bolles, Eric Glick-Rieman, Matt Ingalls, Tom Nunn, Jai Young Kim, Walter Funk, Ches Smith, Graham Connah, Daan Vandewalle, Bevin Kelley, Kristin Erickson, Brenda Hutchinson, John Ingle, Greg Saunier, Peter Valsamis, The Double U, Linda Hagood, William Winant, Trey Spruance, Faxed Head, Phil Franklin, Caroliner, Everywhere You Live You'll Die, Shishkabingle...Donutter, Gummy Suit, Joch, and Jill Cuniff.