Jo Thomas is a London based composer who works with the extremes of the sound spectrum.
She has worked with electronic sound since being a teenager. She has an academic post at the University of East London researching and teaching in Music Technology and Electronic Sound. She has a Phd from City University in electro acoustic composition supervised by Denis Smalley and Simon Emmerson.
Her own compositions and live performance focus on glitch, fallibility, micro-sound and voice. She creates dense architectural platforms of sound out of miniature technological artefacts. Her work repeatedly explores the polarities of failure and perfection. She performs her music live on multi speaker diffusion systems and her work is available on vinyl through Entr’acte Records.
She has received many commissions some of which include INA GRM Paris, BBC Radio 3, Arts Council of England and National Heritage.
Immediate future music includes the release of the 'Ultra Tonal EP' and a newly commissioned release entitled 'Girl' out soon on Entr'acte.
Jo is a keen collaborator and regularly works with multi disciplinary forms, she enjoys combining digital sound with filmic image , also with theatre and dance. In the past her music has been performed by artists such as Tom Arthur’s and Wayne McGregor .She has also worked closely with other composers such as Christopher Fox on BBC 3 commissions. In 2010 she collaborated with the writer Tim Lawrence on a music event at the ICA Hold on to your Dreams based around the music of Arthur Russell.
