FLOATING SOUND GALLERY

Vienna

Jo Thomas

Jo Thomas is a professional composer and artist of electro-acoustic music. She has nearly 30 years of experience composing and producing music.
She creates installations and is very experienced in composing work which incorporates the outdoors.

She has been published by several labels, including NMC recordings, Naxos, and Entracte, and her work has been performed internationally. Jo Thomas runs her own imprint called Soft Apple from which she sells her artwork and music, and arranges walks and events. In 2012, Jo Thomas was awarded a Golden Nica in Prix Ars Electronica for her composition Crystals Sound of the Synchrotron. In 2011, she was nominated for a Qwartz award for the electronic Album Alpha produced by the Belgian label Entracte. In 1997, she was awarded a commendation from the Bourges International music festival for her work African Violet.
She composes, produces and performs her work and lives in North London.

Artist Statement.
When composing, understanding different types of movement, space, and drawing is very important to me; I often draw my work before writing music and collect small snippets of digital films. While writing, I explore subject matter by creating abstract forms to get a feeling of the sound and shape that I am trying to create. Some of my works take days, and some can take years of planning and creating.