In 2020 Jo Thomas was commissioned by IOU to create a new musical work to be played on sculptural sound installation Speaking Tubes. Her final work titled ‘In a Still Place’ was written in 4 weeks of lockdown during April to May 2020. It is a work that explores different states of stillness whilst acknowledging sometimes rapid change. 

A unique spatialised version of ‘In a Still Place’ was created and shared online on 4 June 2020. There are four small movements to the work making a 25-minute electronic music work: Static, Cover, Macabre and Home. 

Static 

Cover 

Macabre 

Home 

Of this piece Jo Thomas says: 

“For this work, I decided to focus on what was immediately around me. The sound of birdsong the static nature of lockdown, silences, fear, grief gaps, communal warmth, media messages, glitches and a home. The speaking tubes are designed as vortex cannons. I always had this in mind when I was composing music for projection inside a sculptural space. The music is composed to move freely allowing perspectives change and alter.”
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released June 4, 2020 

Image used courtesy of the IOU Gallery Halifax 
Composer/ Jo Thomas

In a still place

Static Love

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Static 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

Static

Cover

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

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Home

Macabre 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.
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mage used courtesy of the IOU Gallery Halifax

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Macabre

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