Jo Thomas

Wide Blossom is a last movement of Sketch of Nature.

Wide Blossom

Strong holder was written as part of "The Spaces in Between".
Digital release by Soft Apple October  28 2022

Strong Holder

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

Boy Sunshine Over Nimbus

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. 


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GrantedbyGod

Granted By God Agna Rita

Our Noise Agna Rita

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released July 19, 2017 
Jo Thomas 
Composed and Mastered for 
SApple 2017 

London

SoundStones

Softly

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

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This is a freely downloadable live recording from the jothomas.me site. The recording is being released as uncompressed AIFF and 320 VBR MP3.
Recording Joe Caramelo

Alpha Live

This recording of ‘Alpha’ was performed on the 5th of May at the E82 Entr’acte record release event.The artists Lee Gamble, John Wall , Shelly Parker, Oliver Fay , Piers Martin and Sheihk Ahmed all participated in the event.The recording is a 21-minute performance made with digital sound files from the original electronic work Alpha E82.

Alpha Live to Digital Release

The original work Alpha was composed around metaphors of transformation and the ether. Based on the work of Donna Harrway’s Cyborg Manifesto Alpha strives to create a meta-body in digital sound. To release this live recording through the Internet seemed a natural musical and media progression.
These files are available in uncompressed pure audio. This ensures all sonic and spatial qualities are kept extremely close to the original performance. The files are also available for people to share and edit . The MP3’s have no DRM on them.

Program notes: Construction

This performance is an improvisation which works intuitively with the spectral shape of the sounds. It is based on an open form, it’s dynamic range, density and occurrence of gesture has similarities to the original electronic work on the LP. The openness of form allowed me work with the concept of absolute time , changing source material swiftly with no obvious connection to musical events of the past and using pause as a sound event in it’s own right. Real time sound transformations were paramount in this performance as regards to pitch centre’s, noise ratios, grain capturing a sense of a live performance.


Alpha Live at The Alibi

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..
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Composition and performance Jo Thomas
Sound Hannah Broderick

Jo Thomas - Nature's Numbers : Dreams live

Time Lament

Static Love

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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

In a Still place

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Macabre

Angel Numbers

White Bird

Threads

In the Spaces in Between

Bright Shadows

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