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.
So grateful that two selections from soundscapes from a desert suburb(“bridge (daybreak)” and “park (twilight)” were recently featured on the 04/27/25 edition of framework. Have a listen to this and every edition of framework, which always a gift to your ears.
My sound art composition with Vienna’s Evamaria Muller (@gmorrk) is featured in the new digital edition of the Austrian arts and culture magazine, komplex. Appropriately, the group publishes a year-end print publication called, komPOST. Eva and I continue to work on our broader compost project and just finished up our second piece for what we expect will be release towards the end of 2025, early 2026. Thank you, komplex!
Happy to announce that mysoundsketches of a desert suburbreleases on Feb 3, 2025. This release has been a long time in coming! It will be available on Bandcamp and all the usual streaming services.
Great day removing legacy barbed wire with Desert Fence Busters. This is a powerful collaboration among Arizona Fish and Game, Friends of Ironwood National Monument, and many other local partners to create wildlife corridors in the Sonoran Desert. The seven teams, with 48 total workers took down about 2.5 miles of unused fencing. Tucson Audubon Society also capped 52 "death pipes.” A local rancher removed most of the t-posts on which fencing was strung.
I had a wonderful time visiting family on Cape Cod over the holidays. Quiet (and COLD) beaches meant quiet time to record. Hopefully this stuff will find its way into some future projects.
I am happy to report that my internet radio station, Sonoran Soundcapes, is now live and available for 24/7 streaming. For now, it is being hosted by Radio.co and can be heard via the player on this website. It’s going to be a permanent work in progress, I think, as I add more content and consider ways to expand its reach. But, for now, it’s here and existing.
We had an incredible afternoon with Gary Beverly, chair of Citizens Water Advocacy Group, hiking around and learning about the Big Chino Watershed and the Upper Verde Wildlife Area, hosted by Prescott’s Natural History Institute. No one has done more to help protect the Upper Verde and a sustainable water supply for Arizona than Gary. He is really remarkable. Focus today on the amazing efforts to designate the Upper Verde as a “wild and scenic” river, as much of the section below Beasley RAP and Horseshoe Dam is. The Verde needs our help — without conservation and attention to overdraft from the aquifer, the Upper Verde will likely go dry within three decades.
My collaborative work with the amazing Vienna-based sound artist, Evamaria Muller (@gmorrk), was featured on the Canadian sound art radio program and podcast, Hears Have Eyes on Dec. 11, 2024. Great show and really important work they are doing there. Have a listen. Eva and I met at CAMP in August and have been “audio penpals” since then. More work to come from us…
I finished up a fun project focused on “Montezuma Well” near Rimrock, AZ. It features a serendipitous field recording made at this remarkable natural spring and sinkhole in July 2024 and a voice over describing the important geological and cultural features of the site. The recording will come out sometime through the Wildlife Sound Recording Society’s sound magazine. There’s an accompanying article that hopefully will be published in their journal sometime this year. All this was inspired by a fantastic guided tour of the Well by Larry Stevens from the Museum of Northern Arizona and the Spring Stewardship Institute. But you can have a sneak-preview listen here!
