Thomas is a sound artist, sound recordist, and musician
based in Arizona’s Sonoran Desert on the
ancestral lands of the O’Odham, Piipaash,
the Yavapai-Apache Nation, and their ancestors.
As part of our participation in Audio Foundation’s “Unframed Signals” series, Evamarie Müller and have created an exciting collaborative text that that both reflects on and enacts our “composting” approach as an artistic method and an ethical practice of listening- and creating-with others. The piece repurposes parts of our ongoing, two-year email exchange.
The work appears in AF’s Soundbleed Journal.
I’m super-excited to share that the latest iteration of the Compost X collaboration with Evamaria Müller is now out in the world as part of New Zealand’s Audio Foundation “Unframed Signals” broadcast series. The collection features four constructed soundscapes (including the original Compost X) and a fifth piece that uses voice and email-text to re-interpret our composting project. Working with Eva has been such a joy! And we’re so glad for the support from Audio Foundation for this work!
Very happy to see some field recordings done on the Verde near-ish to Tuzigoot National Monument find their way onto the recent edition of framework under my lazy_bird moniker. You can listen in at 28:54. Really great edition with contributions from Francisco Lopez and Manja Ristic, among many others. This is a program always worth listening-with.
By the way, this one had been added to the Verde Valley soundmap on Aporee Soundmaps.
A truly extraordinary week kayaking the wild and scenic section of the lower Verde River with the US Forest Service’s River Rangers. So much to say and, now, so much to listen to! I’ve written up a longer account of the experience.
I had an another inspired and inspiring week with Jana Winderen and an incredible group of artists and creative thinkers at CAMP’s “The River Garbet” workshop in the French Pyrenees in October. Thank you to Jana, CAMP, and all my new friends. Further fun was had in Vienna with Evamaria Mueller and in Berlin with Magda Buchczyk — friends from CAMP 2024.
Fun day tabling in support of the Sierra Club’s Water Sentinels program at Verde River Day in Cottonwood! Nice, steady flow of folks stopping by to talk—and pretty good weather too!
My recent letter to the editor published in the Verde Independent encouraging local support for the “wild and scenic” designation for the Upper Verde River. Click to read the letter.
Happy that “Soundsketches of a Desert Suburb” was selected to be re-broadcast on Resonance.Fm as part of Radiophrenia’s REWIND of its fantastic 2025 festival. You can hear it August 10 at 8:20 GMT. SO MUCH GREAT WORK HERE!!! Definitely going to make some time to do some deep and serious listening. Please, please check all this amazing stuff out! And thanks to Radiophrenia for making all this possible.
My short piece about “listening and learning” at Montezuma’s Well in central Arizona has now been published by the Wildlife Sound Recording Society in its journal Wildlife Sound. The audio accompaniment should be out soon in its sound magazine but, meanwhile a link to listen to below.
Happy to announce the release of Traces of Aulus: Four Soundsketches. These pieces are based on recordings made last summer in and around Aulus-les-Bains, France while at CAMP. As the project evolved, they came to be sonic mediations on the effort of memory-(re)making and remembering. Available now via Bandcamp and, shortly, all the usual digital streaming services.
