Tom Harris

Studio A4

Tom Harris writes, records, and releases music independently, creating sound design for film and soundscapes for exhibitions. Tom often fuses genres - Experimental, Ambient, Hip-Hop, and Jazz - and has realised that he is most comfortable working between boundaries, expressing multiplicity through variety and diversity of creative output and practice.

His creativity is a productive space to express tensions and conflicts, synthesising new possibilities, reframing and outgrowing ideas in music, expressing what language cannot. Tom primarily uses piano, samplers, synths, and tape machines to write music. His background as a sound engineer has put a lot of emphasis on the technical qualities of his work.

Tom also writes short essays about the psychology of creativity and the creative process, its plasticity and expansiveness. Tom has created some visual artworks in the form of film and digital images, mainly as an accompaniment to music.

Recent experience includes: MRes Degree in Music Research at Lincoln University (2019-2020); Soundtrack Swallowed Whole for Celine Siani Djiakoua at Broadway Gallery, Nottingham (2021); Soundscape for a short film of Phoebe Boswell Exhibition at New Art Exchange (2021); Soundscape for Making Places Exhibition at Primary (2020); When We Worked at Raleigh podcast Sound design at Primary (2019 - 2020); Laurel Halo Residency at Camp France (2019). Upcoming Music releases - Exo movements parts 1,2,3 (2017 - 2019).