Thomas is a sound artist, sound recordist, and musician
based in Arizona’s Sonoran Desert on the
ancestral lands of the O’Odham (known as the Pima),
Piipaash (known as the Maricopa),
the Yavapai-Apache Nation, and their ancestors.
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.
Big, warm thanks to New Adventures in Sound Art in South River, Ontario for an inspiring and invigorating immersive field recording workshop on its beautiful Warbler’s Roost property at Deer Lake. So enjoyed meeting everyone and hearing how these artists engaged the rich soundscape around us. Please check out some of their work at marymcdonald.ca, @juliawhitesculpture, @adamartdump, patriciodavila.com, johanneszits.com, hcenteno.net, antonpickard.com, Victoria Fenner. Particular appreciation goes to Darren and Nadene Copeland for making it and NAISA possible.
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!
