Jo Thomas

Moment Amplified

Eclectic Electronic Soundscapes -
International Womens Day 2018 pt3 .....
Here is the final part of my journey to just try and demonstarate just how much electronic music of all genres is being created by artists who just happen to identify as female.
As always, this is in no way an exhaustive list. I'm always just skimming the surface of creativity and as ever it's just a starting point...it really is the tip of the iceberg of some of the music I've listened to this past few weeks and doesn't cover all the artists I am following or who follow. 
Brace yourselves, there are two other lists like this one for IWD2018 and remember, these are just a few of the tracks that have come my way in the past month.
I just wanted to see for myself how many artists are out there creating a huge range of sounds and I've deliberately not put them in any order to underline how eclectic they are -
Artists on the list in no particular order or preference....
Yonneda Lemma, Jo Thomas, Enchanted Lands, Hiro Kone, sadfem, Panic Girl, Jaslyn Robertson, Julia Kent, Kathy Hinde, Giganta, Sarah Thompson, Kalalunatic, Karen Power, Michaela Melian, April Larson, Blevin Blectum, Anna Peaker, Poly Garbo, SHITNEY, Lucrecia Dalt, Sandunes, Sad Miranda, Maggi Payne, Irradiation, Natalie TBA Beridze, Aisha Devi, Nadia Lena Blue, Kate Carr, Ingenstansland, Mila Chiral, Slow Spin, Alexandra Spence, Jen Kirby, Corset Lore, Chaines, Just Her, Christina Vantzou, Zavoloka, Anastasia Vronski and  Ana Maria Avram,

Feminatronic #129 - IWD2018 - Tip of the Iceberg #3

Wide Blossom is a last movement of Sketch of Nature.

Wide Blossom

Jo Thomas 
Poly plastic
PolyPlastic from A Sketch of Nature, Composer Jo Thomas Violinist Simmy Singh
 Ty Cerdd 2021

PolyPlastic from A Sketch of Nature, Composer Jo Thomas Violinist Simmy Singh

Trails 3

Hiro Kone - Trepidations

Cascade Infinity is a work for Gezhung and Electronics . It was composed by Jo Thomas. Played live in Pontio by Luxi Tain on the 18.2.24

Cascade Infinity Jo Thomas (segements)

We swim where the birds are

Agna Rita – many voices, one message - review by Abi Bliss 
All fish weirs on the Thames and the Medway and throughout England are to be entirely removed, save on the sea coast.
You may be forgiven for not immediately identifying that as a line from the Magna Carta, the document revered across eight centuries as one of the icons of British freedom and democracy. But the treaty signed by King John in 1215 was chiefly about restraint. It offered royal subjects freedom through protection, whether that meant limiting the power of the crown to seize property and demand taxes, standardising weights and measures of wine, ale, corn and cloth – or stopping the obstruction of waterways. 
View it from a distance through the foggy lens of history and the Magna Carta makes a fine symbol of liberty; examine the details up close and you discover clauses such as: No-one is to be taken or imprisoned on the appeal of woman for the death of anyone save for the death of that woman’s husband. It seems that freedom is more for some than others.
In contrast, electroacoustic music entices with the promise of a world without limits. Confined only by their own imagination and the available technology, composers can sculpt sounds, synthesise, manipulate and refine them to levels of detail more delicate than any human ear can perceive. They can recreate worlds or shape impossible new ones, bend the laws of physics or, as Jo Thomas did on 2010’s Alpha, merge human with machine into a cyborg future.
In a similar way to abstract visual art and sculpture, electroacoustic music offers listeners – indeed, demands that they exercise – the freedom to interpret. And if composers are rulers only in the most intangible sense and only for the length of each piece, still it is here that they should feel the need for self-restraint, to allow listeners space to build their own houses of meaning around these orphaned sounds and furnish them with individual experience.
Diffused across 22 speaker channels and more than an hour in length in its installation form, Agna Rita is Thomas’s largest and boldest work to date. Even in its stereo CD version, the scope is striking. Yet although at times it confronts and challenges, there are no bombastic displays of power here. Instead, it welcomes in listeners on a human scale. 


Our Noise Agna Rita

Limited release of 55 C27 tapes out on November 17th on Genot Centre → https://genot.bandcamp.com/album/feed-goals

Music by https://soundcloud.com/enchantedlands
Cover by https://soundcloud.com/galentipton
Layout by Krstn Klvk → http://krstnklkv.tumblr.com
Album teaser by h5io → https://vimeo.com/241931953

FEED GOALS by ENCHANTED LANDS is a of collection tracks of that can best be seen as assemblages, showing intricate weaving and arranging of sound materials. Her tracks form strange scenes or frames where just when the sound seems to settle down a turnover point is reached and a delicate change of balance results in a whole new plateau. Receiving cues from ASMR, impact blasts, and natural phenomena, these elements become sound ingredients that add microscopic texture, sensuality and depth to their complementary sounds. Moving beyond any high or low fidelity,  the nature of the sounds blend together into a space where compression artefacts, phone mic'ing and high-tech sound design mingle fluently. From weeping wind harps to whispered confessionals to immense trance reveries, the result is a sound that eludes itself and forces the ear to expect some curious inversion around every corner.

Released by Genot Centre 
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Enchanted Lands - All Silver And Shadows And Visions Of Things Not Seen (GEN017)

samples: 
[a bathtime asmr video that is no longer available]
youtu.be/tIhL2KHVdgE

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healing magic

Life is a Delicate thing.

Random Feathers was written in the Summer of 2017.I am using very high frequencies within this work as I wanted to develop a full ambient reflective space.It was written in the Studio's of EMS Stockholm and edited in the home studios of Jo Thomas in North London.It is a work which invites concentrated listening maybe for a few moments or an hour, it is delicate work and full of internal movement.It comes in 5 movements. It is being played in the art lending library on the 8th of December.

Random Feathers

Live Performance from Leeds Belgrave Music Hall.
Jo Thomas For Synth Remix 2018 
Inspired by the work of Radio Phonic's 
Composed and Remixed for the Synth Remix Tour./ Classical Remix 
Inspired by work from the papers of Delia Derbyshire and notes from the Radio phonic workshop. 
Support and Funding for the whole project gratefully received from 
Arts Council of England, Sound and Music, PRS Foundation and the Fenton Arts Trust..
credits
Composition and performance Jo Thomas
Sound Hannah Broderick

Time Lament

Static Love

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Home is part of a commission from the IOU gallery written in April/ May 2020. The work was written for the Speaking Tubes installation in Halifax.
Image used courtesy of the IOU Gallery Halifax

In a Still place

In a still place

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Jo Thomas is an artist composer and creative musician based in London who works with live electronic and installation. Her work is published through her own imprint Soft Apple , Naxos, NMC recordings, Holiday Records and Entracte. 
www.jothomas.me