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ABOUT
"intricate, bold and deeply beautiful music"
Jo Thomas is a musician from the UK. Jo works as an improviser, composer and creator. She performs internationally, in London and throughout the UK. Jo Thomas is a self-released artist with her own digital imprint Soft Apple.Her music is available through Naxos, Naxos USA, Entracte, NMC recordings, and Ty Cerdd. Jo Thomas is Musician in Residence for Musica/Hallmark.
In 2012 Jo won Prix Ars Electronica for her work Sounds of a Synchrotron. Her music is often emotive, working with references to biological elements.
Jo Thomas creates odd sonic landscapes with worlds of Angels, loves and mysteries.She creates music with a language built from intricate digital glitches ingrained with noise and sub-bass structures.
Since the early 1990's Jo has worked with Electro-acoustic sound, working in Studios such as INA GRM Paris, EMS Stockholm, and Djerrasi San Fransisco. Jo Thomas often works with elements of visual art and language as an expression of sound.Her work has been referenced and discussed in academic books about art, music and sound. Her work can be found in published academic videos, recordings, podcasts and books. She has worked with Electroacoustic music and improvisation for a long time and compositional structures and her musical thinking has evolved from her processes both in performance and preparation. Jo Thomas has an impressive back catalogue of commissions and self-released work. She has played in major festivals and very small unique venues. Her work can be found in the British Music Collection and the British Library.
She has gratefully received support from PRS, Britten Pears Foundation. Ralph Vaughn Williams Trust, Arts Council of England. Arts Council of Wales and Greaame.
In 2022 Jo Thomas was a professor of Electronic Sound for the Dartmouth University International Exchange Programme in London. Jo often works as a music mentor and creative support for Disabled and non Disabled Adults. Jo Thomas has lived experience of Disability.