Alexander Thomas - ProfilesArchive

About Me

Hi, yes. I am that guy, I play the Theremin and live in Bristol, I like going other places and playing the Theremin, I record music that sounds a little bit nice, sometimes when I play live it gets very noisy and angry, if you would like to book me please say so. Listen to them that's up there.
HERE BE REVIEWS
" Alexander Thomas coaxes delicious ripples from his Theremin. This serious man and the first electronic instrument are a luscious spectacle together. His eerie soundscapes are full of pathos and seem to call up ghosts of our electronic past, from Edison to Aphex." - QuJunktions
"Another solo set by Alexander Thomas lulls the gathered coffee drinkers to a blissful, respectful silence. Frantic pedal pushing helps create layers of lush slow-changing harmonies over which he plays haunting melodies. These are gentle thought pieces, synaesthetic narratives of the kind only a Holophonor could recreate." - SkipTheBudgie.org
Second up was Alexander Thomas who was an extraordinary contrast to the preceding act. Up there just with a Theremin and digital loop machine, holding the audience rapt with his miniature orchestra. The skill involved playing his machine, let alone the timing required to layer the sounds made for a mesmerising performance. At times it sounded like violins and at other times, birds - fascinating. - RottenMeats blog
Alexander Thomas was all digital clash and curiously spooked tones, His Rasputin like hands echoing Greek orthodox iconography as he sent signals across the Theremin, shimmer fish softening the hard edges, working across the judder. The collusion was beautiful, sliced up within the boxes at his feet, rearranged, and forced back to eat its own tail in a convulsive cacophony. Those spacey whispers you expect from the instrument are there, but chopped up they made some lusciously evil shapes â€“ that made perfect sense. Like gift wrapped brutality, orchestral sirens crucified, haemorrhaging out a MÃ¶bius ribbon of its own making. In contrast the outro was all birds calls circling round a soft ascension, the summer that could have been. - Rottenmeats blog

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 7/15/2005
Band Members: Myself, my Theremin, my Looper.
Influences: Acid Mothers Temple, Aphex Twin, Angel Tech, Atmosphere, Bela Emerson, Brian Eno, Bronnt Industries Kapital, Bucky, Edan, Final, Freeze Puppy, Geisha, Glassjaw, Goblin, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Gong, Gravenhurst, The Heads, Knowledge Of Bugs, Mole Harness, Mono, My Ambulance Is On Fire, North Sea Navigator, OOIOO, Pamelia Kurstin, People Under The Stairs, A Silver Mount Zion, SJ Esau, Team Brick, Twocsinak, Weidorje... and the list goes on, too many things.
Sounds Like: An elephant evaporating in a fourteen-year reverb chamber.
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Helium

YES well. Blog.Hopefully you like the 2 minutes of audio I've put up - it's an exerpt from "Helium", which is a CD of improvised works for Theremin and miscellaneous processes that I'll be taking to g...
Posted by Alexander Thomas on Mon, 18 Feb 2008 03:42:00 PST