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Nature of Habit

The Album ‘Nature of Habit’ was sketched in late August after the 2011 riots in London and was edited over an eight month period. The tracks, Charged and Zero, are written without gestural impact or counterpoints, affording personal interpretation. The music embraced the collision of multiple grains of noise and glitch. The source material for both works is generated from the composer’s own voice. This work was developed from the research question, ‘[h]ow can composition reflect a political environment in musical form?’

When writing Nature of Habit Thomas was influenced by the work done in Diamond Light Source (see REF output 1) as both works were completed within a few weeks of each other.

A large degree of Nature of Habit was written using digital anthropology footage of people colliding with each other during the riots. This influenced the form and structure. Thomas decided to work with Visual Gestalt in regards to a malleable form and also wanted to create a sound world which was unique in itself and had ownership over its own physical space. The sonic world that was created was influenced by the original sources of Atoms colliding with each other from Diamond Light Source.

Performances:

Norberg Festival Sweden

http://www.norbergfestival.com/artists/1200-jo-thomas

Nature of Habit 19th of May. 2012 http://solosets.co.uk

Goldsmiths London

Café Oto September 13th 2012

http://www.cafeoto.co.uk/land-observations.shtm

Solo Concert Temporeale Concert 7th of October (Nature of Habit)

http://www.temporealefestival.it/tr_microjo-thomas-the-glitch-experience/

Interview

http://zonestyxtravelcard.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/jo-thomas-interview.html