Angel
Commissioned by Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, INA GRM and Sonic Art Network
Music and direction: Jo Thomas
Images filmed by: Stewart Collinson
Angel
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The human body,
Kinetic movment of performers,
The human voice,
The Piano,
The Sun,
Snowdonia
Paris
Berlin
Radio Head,
Early Stockhausen,
Gold Frapp,
Messian,
Madonna,
Kraftwork,
Varese,
Early Shoenburg,
Early Debussey,
Simone De Beavoiur,
Luigi Nono,
Coffee,
Simon Emmerson,
Denis Smalley,
Billie Holiday,
Ella Fiz,
Women who do Graffiti
Time
Studio Space,
Bach,
Basil Twist,
Luc Ferrai,
Hip Hop,
R and B,
John Wall,
Jonty Harrison,
Shubert Lieder'Du Bist Die Ruh'D.776
Mahler Lieder
Wagner'Tristan and Islonde
Begee's,
Abba,
Family
Sounds Like
Bright colours and Kinetic movment
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Jo Thomas lives and works as a composer in East and North London. She holds a post at the University of East London lecturing Electronic Sound and Music Culture. NMC recordings and Entr'acte Records release her music. Her music is also distributed by the British Music Information centre. Her compositions concentrate on voice, micro-sound and technological artifacts. Her music is frequently performed live and in a traditional electro acoustic setting ( Multi channel Diffusion) Exploring the acoustics’ of each space is a priority for her work.
Her work mostly uses the human voice as a core sound source. Compositionaly she consistently works with Metaphors of Time, Human Machine Data transfer, Silence and Noise.Her work explores the semiotics of the audio ‘glitch’ expression of Freedom , Failure and Human Rights.
As a composer her work is internationally profiled. This spring Jo is due to present her work in the Ohrenhoch, der Gerauschladen Berlin.
This spring (2009) she is working with the acclaimed musican Andrea Neumann on a new peice of Music called Luna for performance in late 2009- early 2010. Summer of 2009 she will be working with the artist Kathy Hinde on a new live audio visual work called Glitch Fissure.
In 2008 Jo Thomas was awarded an International Composer Residency to compose in the EMS Studio's Stockholm. She wrote Alpha (5.1), which was premiered in the BMIC Cutting Edge Series, Nov 08. In 2005 she presented her music at the MIT Media Centre, Boston USA and at Stanford Music Department, USA.
In the past she has been commissioned by the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, INA GRM Paris and Sonic Arts Network, she has worked on commissions for BBC Radio 3 and has worked on commissions for the Arts Council of England and National Heritage. She has received funding for her music from the PRS Foundation, Snowdon Award Scheme, Mercers Trust, the Arts Council of England the Holst Foundation. Foundation for the Sports and Arts.
Jo Thomas recently finished a major public art sound walk in East London situated within London City Airport, the Excel centre and Thames Barrier Park. The walk is a combination of music and voice, using current recordings of voices based within the Docklands and archive material from the Museum of London, Docklands museum. www.portsofcall.co.uk. Recent residency programmes; July 2008 International Composer Residency - work 'Alpha' EMS Stockholm. July 2007 Artist in Residency - Gemini. University of Hertfordshire. September 2005 International Composer Residency-work 'Girl' Djerrasi Studio's San Francisco. List of recent papers; September 2008 Micro sound as a Cyborg Utterance' Sounding Out Conferance.March 2008 A Musical Gestalt - Composing Electronic Sound for Mobile Technology. Westminster University London. Publications, Less; work for Electronic Sound and Baroque Flute; Dutch Journal of Music Theory, Performer Amara Guirty (Vol 12,2007)
Writings on Music / Micro sound and Utterance
http://www.thomholmes.com/Noise_and_Notations/Noise_and_Notations_Blog/Archive.html
Come along on Saturday night 15th of Nov ... a concert designed for the pure joy of listening Electrosound ,Cutting Edge Series 2008 15th November The Warehouse Waterloo, London
The Electro Acoustic Spring Zither installation as used in Isomorphism II & III from the re - mastered album "......Further Observations" to be released soon
Thanks for coming to work in our studios. We very much enjoyed meeting you and listening to your music. Great that you played at the Norberg festival as well. And don't you just miss PASTA FOR LUNCH?
