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Richard Thomas

Murdoch or Fred West- Which Is Best?

About Me

..{bordercolor="33CC33" font-family="helvetica, arial" text-color="33CC00" bgcolor="330000"} Right, maybe I should add something to this. I play ’cello. I’ve even got pieces of paper saying so. I can make different sounds physically, mechanically and electronically. Got toys like boxes with flashy lights on that plug into computers. I play ’weird classical scores’ and free improvise.

I do solo. I do amplified. I do non-amplified. I play with The Hola. I play with others if I like them. I perform with or without ’cello.

Moving Pictures! Improvisation with Mark Pilkington at BETA sonic art conference, Liverpool 2005More! Magnus Spectrum- Live at Valhalla@Zanzibar, Liverpool 19.5.07Me

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 8/1/2005
Band Members: me
Influences:

Or repertoire even:
Agostini, Agrimbau, Aphex Twin, Bach, Bussotti, Cage, Cardew, Ferneyhough, Finnisy, Gehlhaar, Gordon, Kagel, Lachenmann, Ligeti, Penderecki, Saariaho, Shostakovich, Stockhausen, Webern, Xenakis


Sounds Like: exactly what it says on the tin pigeon
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Magnus Spectrum Live video

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Posted by Richard Thomas on Tue, 29 May 2007 05:53:00 PST

Avant Garde Project (Free Music!)

I've just stumbled across this site and it's ace- www.avantgardeproject.org they've digitised over 50 deleted recordings in FLAC format and stuck them up on the site for the general public to consume...
Posted by Richard Thomas on Sat, 14 Apr 2007 07:43:00 PST

Open mic terrorism

As some of you know I spent many a time performing stupid activities at open mic nights, and I stumbled across someone advertising on gumtree for that exact thing www.openmicterrorism.co.ukthis is wha...
Posted by Richard Thomas on Sun, 08 Oct 2006 10:15:00 PST

"Bend Me, Shape Me, Anyway You Want Me..."

After having a few requests for some material to 'chop to pieces and stick loads of effects on', I've finally made a few recordings (hooray!). And instead of putting them on incredibly compressed mp3...
Posted by Richard Thomas on Mon, 19 Mar 2007 05:56:00 PST

Magnus Spectrum

There are too many Richard Thomases in this world, especially in the areas of music I'm doing: In my locality alone there's Richard Thomas: Electronic performer, works for resonance fm, plays in...
Posted by Richard Thomas on Fri, 16 Feb 2007 06:09:00 PST

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Finally, some more noises on here... I've actually had a wii controller on order since december and only had it arrive last week. Anyway with a bit of tweaking I've got it hooked up to the Dave Smit...
Posted by Richard Thomas on Thu, 08 Feb 2007 02:15:00 PST

My Birthday gig

Hosted By: glueroomsWhen: Monday Oct 23, 2006 at 8:00 PMWhere: Amersham Arms388 New Cross Road, New CrossLondon, SE146TYUKDescription:gluerooms Click Here To View Event...
Posted by Richard Thomas on Sun, 22 Oct 2006 05:07:00 PST

I'm so mainstream really

Most of the gigs I tend to go to now involve people farting on snare drums, put through banks of guitar effects fed back through 9 beringer mixers, shoes, stoats and other wooland ilk.So I went to the...
Posted by Richard Thomas on Thu, 24 Aug 2006 02:06:00 PST

The HOLA wants you to want to be it's friend

Finally made a myspace page for The HOLA. With music[k?]al delights. They're my friend now. They want you to want to be their friend too.
Posted by Richard Thomas on Sun, 06 Aug 2006 05:03:00 PST

BBC Radiophonic Workshop

Just found these pictures spanning the history of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop:herewow. It's such a shame they're not out hitting bits of metal, playing weird instruments, bodging electronics togethe...
Posted by Richard Thomas on Thu, 03 Aug 2006 01:39:00 PST