Waste Paper Opera is a collective of performers, artists, makers and thinkers run by composer and performer James Oldham and artist and writer Klara Kofen. Defining ‘Waste Paper’ as any found text with the potential for recontextualisation, we write music, build structures, make costumes, and write stories using Waste Paper. Recent projects include Dead Cat Bounce, premiered at Somerset House in July 2022 and presented as a sound installation at Medios Sintientes, Matadero Madrid, Syrup Tracing, an Ideas of Noise commission, toured across the Midlands in January 2020, ‘i’-The Opera, performed at Glasgow International 2018, and Vorephilia presented at Unframed Festival in 2018.
