Forthcoming cassette release on the APOLOGIES Imprint.

Renato Grieco & Tom White - Accidental Stereo at the Peninsula
Mastered by Taku Unami

Accidental Stereo at the Peninsula

Renato Grieco & Tom White - Accidental Stereo at the Peninsula (Side B excerpt)

Chocolate Monk 
http://chocolatemonk.co.uk/available.htm

Routine Happenings was an Installation at the HAPPENING! Event (Power Lunches, London 24th May 2013), this release is an expanded version of the multi-speaker piece. It contains 4 10 minute variations of the work originally installed, using source material collected during the mundane hours of Power Lunches opening. 

Event curated by Christina Millare & Dee Sada

Originally released to coincide with the event as 10 unique C20 cassettes. 


Routine Happenings (Variation 1) Chocolate Monk Release

https://continuous-tone.bandcamp.com/album/restless-leg

This new release by Continuous Tone is a stereo mix of a live performance presented at Café OTO earlier this year. Kate Carr and Iain Chamber invited Tom to respond to their theme of “Rubbish Music” in which they take discarded objects as source material for live improvisations. The subsequent composition employs a pair of modified kitchen pedal bins as musical instruments; close mic’d, with the lids opening and closing periodically to modulate the sounds passing through and ‘prepared’ with bamboo sticks placed on the speaker cones inside so that low frequencies vibrate the metal lids. 
credits
released November 7, 2022

Recorded by Pedro Subtil at Café OTO, July 10th, 2022
Mixed by Tom White
Mastered by Taku Unami

Restless Leg

Soft Close (excerpt) from Restless Leg (Continuous Tone)

Track for Kanshin Japanese Relief Compilation.
100% profit from the release goes toward the relief effort.
CD & Download available from the link below

http://www.kanshin.co.uk/

Bright Rooms (Kanshin Japan Relief Compilation)

From forthcoming release Medina Vibrations on Brachliegen Tapes.
Out 1st September 2023 

Mastered by Renato Grieco

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MEDINA VIBRATIONS is a collection of electroacoustic works from sound artist TOM WHITE. The material collected spans installation work, studio composition, and live recordings. Whirring stereo imaging and dense acousmatic soundscapes intertwine over four longform pieces, which foreground the tactility of full-spectrum immersive soundwork. Tom White utilises tape manipulation, electromagnetic activity, field recording, electronic processing and elements of musique concréte in this assemblage of recent material.

Medina Vibrations

01.09.2023

Energiser | From Medina Vibrations (Brachliegen Tapes)

A relentless assembly. (November 11, 2014)

: (Is this really me!)
: Yuri Yurievich Yurieff
: Five Voices

: Reel-to-reel tape recorder, found objects, feedback
: Recorded in London in 2014

Clear cassette. Edition of 100.
Time: 36:54
Alien Passengers #23

www.alienpassengers.bigcartel.com/product/tom-white-reconstruction

(Is this really me!) [excerpt from Reconstruction Alien Passengers 23)

Part of Art Licks weekender 2018, residents of a modernist housing estate in South East London were invited to contribute to a publication and exhibition within the building. My contribution consisted of manipulated recordings made within the surroundings of the block; contact mic recordings of heavy winds on the netting and local wildlife, such as foxes. The piece was then played back within the escape balcony and communal areas for the duration of the weekend. 

Mixed Media Installation. 2x speakers, amplifier, media player, recycled plastic sheet, fixtures. 
Sound 8 mins

Curated by Joel Chan and Sarah Howe

LOW RISE (2018)

Stereo excerpt from quadraphonic installation at The London Canal Museum x Emerge Festival 2019. 

4 channel sound, duration: 1 hour 5 minutes

Speaker encased in ice, amplifier, white noise

Slow Time was a three part sound installation presented within the London Canal Museum’s public exhibition spaces and the unique former ice well in the basement. With reference to the building’s former uses, the installation features multi-channel sound compositions consisting of close-up recordings of ice melting and forming; field recordings from an ice manufacturers and an ice skating rink, along with recordings made on the Regent’s Canal. Recordings were also made site-specifically within the extraordinary architecture of the Victorian ice well. A loudspeaker encased within ice plays white noise, gradually melting and becoming louder throughout the duration of the exhibition.

With kind support from Café OTO

Commissioned by London Canal Museum / Emerge Festival

Slow Time (Installation Excerpt 2019)

Inventory (2015) Audio Excerpt
Castlefield Gallery, DANCEHALL 11, November 12th - 22nd 2015
 
Installation, Dimensions Variable.
Sound piece (performed by Stephen Collins) Stereo audio, Duration 6:30
UV print on perspex, 81x110 cm
Acoustic Underlay, 46db soundproofing, felt & rubber, 204x137, 204x137, 244x137 cm
 
Inventory (2015) includes a sound recording of deaf actor Stephen Collins performing an inventory (both real and imagined) of the gallery space. Without the visual information of sign language we are left with the bodily sounds and the occasional fragmented word. Suspended through the middle of the space, above acoustic sound proofing cut to mirror the measurements of the platforms in the gallery (used throughout DANCEHALL 11 for performances and interventions), is an image of a found performance environment that happened elsewhere. The removal of key visual imagery and human presence work to set attention on the current environment. 

Inventory (2015) Installation Excerpt

From forthcoming cassette on Vitrine
Automated Evangelism VT28 
2016

Artwork: Andrea Kearney 


Evidence of Tampering (Excerpt) Vitrine VT28

From forthcoming cassette Commemoratives on Tutore Burlato

Release features 'Evoke a "Yes"' originally released as a split with Red Brut in 2015 
https://soundcloud.com/tomwhites/evoke-a-yes-excerpt

Tutore Burlato #14

http://tutoreburlato.blogspot.co.uk/

Commemoratives

Commemorative 1 | Tutore Burlato #14

Contribution to Learning to Listen project commissioned by Bang & Olufsen with Royal College of Art. 
http://journal.beoplay.com/journal/2017/4/25/learning-to-listen-tom-white

Log Burner (2017)

From the cassette release 'False Ponds' on My Dance The Skull


False Ponds (Side A)

Maya Dunietz: Voice, Piano, Harp
Tom White: Tapes, Recordings, Feedback

Recorded & Mixed by Karl Sveinsson, Queens Ark Audio, Manchester 13th August 2016. Additional mixing by Tom White

Mastered by Jack Allett
Artwork by Andrea Kearney

Maya Dunietz & Tom White - Everything Is Soaked | Summer Crash (2017)

Maya Dunietz & Tom White - Summer | Summer Crash (2017)

From Run Amok released by Glistening Examples on CD/DL 
Recorded Lanzarote March 2018. Edited and mixed London Summer 2018. 
Mastered by Jason Lescalleet at Glistening Labs USA

Run Amok is a composition featuring recordings of an intervention at the location of Werner Herzog’s film Even Dwarfs Started Small (1970) on the volcanic island of Lanzarote. During the early 1970s Herzog shot two of his most radical early films on the island prior to the tourism boom; sections of Fata Morgana and the entirety of Even Dwarfs Started Small, the location of the which remains much the same almost half a century later. Further recordings were made around the island, utilising the materiality of Lanzarote’s alien landscape and used as source material for the resulting work.

Run Amok

Run Amok | From 'Run Amok' Glistening Examples (2018)

Old Man With Medals | From 'Run Amok' Glistening Examples (2018)

Run Amok released by Glistening Examples on CD/DL 
Recorded Lanzarote March 2018. Edited and mixed London Summer 2018. 
Mastered by Jason Lescalleet at Glistening Labs USA

Run Amok is a composition featuring recordings of an intervention at the location of Werner Herzog’s film Even Dwarfs Started Small (1970) on the volcanic island of Lanzarote. During the early 1970s Herzog shot two of his most radical early films on the island prior to the tourism boom; sections of Fata Morgana and the entirety of Even Dwarfs Started Small, the location of the which remains much the same almost half a century later. Further recordings were made around the island, utilising the materiality of Lanzarote’s alien landscape and used as source material for the resulting work.

Endless Rotations

Deep Ravine

No Stable Perspective

José Garcia Martin's Garden

Tyre Roll

Del Rio

Wind And The Institution

An Incident At The Visitor Centre

From collaborative release with Stuart Chalmers - Awkward Objects on Fractal Meat Cuts.

Releases November 19, 2018

Music by Tom White and Stuart Chalmers. 
Release notes by Joe Murray. 
Mastered by Jac Beloeil.

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Tape-music grandmasters play chess with eternity!

OK (pause)

Phew ... (wipes damp palms, mops shining brow) ... I’m a little excited here OK. (gasp for air, clears throat)

Fans of modern tape wonk will already know the names of the righteous Tom White and Stuart Chalmers. For you lot at the back (and please try and keep up) Tom plays the large reel-to-reel tape machine manipulating the thick vintage tape with electronic effects and spectacularly hands-on physical loop-age systems.

Stuart favours the household compact cassette and carefully takes these fragile babies apart making short micro loops that he magically extends with a dusting of effects pedals, fairy lights and a deep mystical understanding.

Similar set ups for these gentlemen for sure but their work is clear-voiced, distinctive and individual. For Awkward Objects Tom brings a textural crunch that aches with the sound of sound itself. Each subtle click and whirr of the reel-to-reel is elevated to be a star in the show; a gentle hiss is looped into angels gossip, a tidy mechanical clunk becomes the snoring of a sleeping god. Stuart’s gift is for layering fragile sonic time-tissues. Each soft envelope of memory draws electrical activity from my hippocampus triggering flashbacks involving Blake’s Seven, Moonbase Alpha and the hot fug of a sleeping bag.

This is heady stuff; circular, ever moving - a dignified collapse leading to a raw re-birth. Tom and Stuart’s styles merge and mesh perfectly into what some are calling Cubist sound collages. To my cloth ears it’s a great description as the angles are slightly askew, the colours muted and subtle. This recording is a beauty that’s hinted at, inferred, rather than presented as a garish centrefold spread.

Expect to be drawn into a soundworld of new sensations, warm embraces and deft ear-fingering.

So, in my best fairground barkers roar...

”Here they are ladies and gentlemen. Together for the first time, Mister Tom White and Mister Stuart Chalmers proudly present their Awkward Objects for your edification and listening pleasure. Take it away gents...”

Awkward Objects

Tom White & Stuart Chalmers - Possible Scales | From Awkward Objects (Fractal Meat Cuts 2018)

After collaborating on 2018's heady, meticulously crafted sound collage Awkward Objects, Tom White and Stuart Chalmers dimmed the lights for the duo's first live outing - an improvised set of tape loops, ferric textures and cut up narrative.

April 28th 2019

Recording and live sound by Tim Wilton
Thanks to Tim, Dylan, Michael and Karen

Stuart Chalmers & Tom White | Live at Colour out of Space Festival, Brighton April 2019

Track commissioned for the exhibition ‘Now Accepting Contactless - Design in a Global Pandemic’ V&A Dundee as part of a mix by David Blamey for British Earways to be played on a loop in the gallery.

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A couple of months before lockdown, the housing block where Tom White lives got covered in scaffolding. Residents were left in a building veiled by translucent white netting for months on end. This composition was made in this specific urban lockdown context: the fridge whirs, birds chirp on scaffold poles, electromagnetic activity & tape loops reverberate on the eardrums, within the home and out into the world.

Composed of archive and site specific sounds. 
London Spring 2020

Medina Vibrations (2020)

From forthcoming cassette 'Side Down' on Anathema Archive

Mastered by Renato Grieco
Release notes by Ben Ellul-Knight

Releases 9th November 2020

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For Side Down, Tom White offers up two contrasting sides of ear debris culled from a recent performance (the last before our new reality set in) and a collaborative dance work. ‘No script on set’ is a deft re-imagining of a piece originally made for 8-channels. Losing none of its space or atmosphere as sounds zip around the stereo field, the composition conjures different architectures as a metallic glistening sounds out in tightly wound space, then mutates into a cavernous echo. Field recordings emerge, familiar yet hard to pin down, place names held back as electronic tones thread through water drops to breathe a sigh of relief.  ‘Behind the face of a rock, throwing stones (Rehearsal Music)’ is part of an ongoing project with the dance company Surface Area (choreographed by Nicole Vivien Watson), a collective project comprised of deaf and hearing artists. The project explores British Sign Language, D/deaf culture, Japanese culture and Butoh. The music is sensitive to the collaboration - playing with heard and felt sensation, working with sounds’ potential for moving the body. The sonic palette is more paired back than the first piece, it pulses and builds, creating space in which both deaf and hearing bodies can respond to the sonic textures and chattering objects, or the non-cochlear resonances that can be felt in the body.

Side Down

80 Hours | Excerpt from (A1) Side Down (Anathema Archive 2020)

From LETTURA DI UN' ONDA on Café OTO's Takuroku label. 
Buy here: https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/shop/lia-mazzari-tom-white-lettura-di-un-onda/

LETTURA DI UN' ONDA

Lia Mazzari & Tom White 'The Unending Attraction of a Crowd' (Takuroku)

Tom White is a London-based artist. His multidisciplinary practice spreads across sound, moving image, installation and live performance. Past projects include commissions and appearances for Radiophrenia, Glasgow (CCA); BRAUBLFF (KRAAK & De Player); Whitechapel Gallery, London & Colour out of Space Festival, Brighton. Collaborators include Maya Dunietz, Kieron Piercy, Ben Knight, Stuart Chalmers and most recently in Al Fresco with Lia Mazzari & Sholto Dobie .

He won the British Composer Award in 2014 (Sonic Art) for Public Address, commissioned by South London Gallery. In 2016 he founded Apologies in Advance; a platform for artists presenting work in progress performances.

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