Here you can find a number of different audio and video samples of Thomas Bailey's work. Pick your poison below, or merely scroll down to the appropriate section:
The files below are sound pieces which were composed for radio shows, one-off exhibits and concerts, or are portions of longer works by Thomas Bey William Bailey / The Domestic Front (r.i.p.). Right-click (Windows) or command-click (Mac) to save these files. Enjoy! NOTE: mp3 samples from official CD releases are also available, see descriptions for individual albums on the shop page.
radio shows / full performances
Thomas Bey William Bailey live on 'Clear Spot,' Resonance FM, London (12 Jan. 2010)> discussing 'Micro Bionic' aesthetics and other musical extremes
isolated tracks
Von Aug zu Aug, Mehr Freude> from the Thomas Bey William Bailey CD 'Strangelet'
Moznost> from the collaborative Domestic Front CD with Ishigami Kazuya, released 2008
Go Slow (Igwe Ocha)>TBWB contribution to the "Afro Noise" project-in-progress
Anthem Of The Conspicuous Consumer> unreleased TDF compilation track from Summer 2006
Domestic Front Starter Kit> a 13-minute selection of moments from TDF releases 2006-2008
Progressive Lycanthropy (excerpt)> 1 of 3 audio 'phases' from the 2007 installation @ Eyedrum
Datenschutz (excerpt)> from the limited Domestic Front release available on Dirty Demos
All Ultron Needs Is Ultron>an excerpt from the 'Hour Of The Robots' parodic radio 'reality show'
Blind Spot Theme>intro theme for Chicago's 'Blind Spot' conceptual radio program (R.I.P.)
Demilitarized Zone> noisy and vicious excerpt from an aborted Czech Domestic Front gig
Ohkami Pops> another vicious, ecstatic piece from the above gig
Sakura Plastique>unreleased piece of electronic dream gauzeSound Canopy excerpt> a portion of my contribution to the 'Sound Canopy' installation in Chicago
NOTE: please use caution when auditioning these pieces on home stereo equipment, as some may contain extreme, potentially damaging low and high frequencies.
"Belsona Academy" podcast
From mid-2009 until the present, Thomas Bey William Bailey hosted "The Belsona Academy," an eclectic podcast that was briefly taken up, with the help of Oliver Fay and Richard Thomas, as part of the programming schedule on London's Resonance FM. A lack of new, exclusive material for the show has currently put it on hiatus, although the theme remained the same throughout each episode: electronic music and electronic sound art that defied genre conventions and suggested new, often unpredictable, relationships between technology and its creators. Most shows thus far have featured work that is completely exclusive to the Academy, or otherwise quite difficult to obtain.
Below are downloadable MP3s of the 'best of' the Belsona Academy thus far. Note that iTunes still carries some episodes, as does the Podomatic page for the podcast, but both these sources have ejected the earlier ones due to space limitations.
Episode 1> untitled 2009 live performance by Francisco Lopez
Episode 2> Barcelona bat recordings from EVOL
Episode 3> guest speaker Gen Ken Montgomery
Episode 4> electro-acoustic works by Natasha Roberts and Ishigami Kazuya
Episode 5> Lee Gamble exclusive 2009 mega-mix
Episode 7> Human Greed presents a preview of "Fortress Longing"
Episode 9> unreleased work from Michael Esposito + Phantom Airwaves
Episode 12> Bryan Lewis Saunders dreams again
Episode 13> purging 1999-2009 (inter-season special)
Episode 15> new computer overload from Martins Rokis in Latvia
Episode 17> Joseph Nechvatal's Immersive Intelligence
Episode 18> Thomas Bey William Bailey's "Datenschutz"
NOTE: iTunes is the preferred playback software for the above files. Please play back cautiously, as many episodes include fluctuating volume levels or intensely low and high frequenies. Also, be sure to check into the other work of the represented artists, all of whom have been very generous with letting this material be freely distributed here.
Progressive Lycanthropy excerpt> this is essentially just a generous audio excerpt from the TBWB "Progressive Lycanthropy" cassette release of Mirror Tapes, with a scan of the cover art as a visual anchor. All the same, it is a nice, representative extract from one of the strongest TBWB releases.
Thomas Bey William Bailey @ dorkbot Chicago 2010.01.28 from joncates on Vimeo.
An occasionally embarrassing, but still generally successful live talk given at Chicago's Dorkbot shortly after the release of the Micro Bionic book. Creation Books decided not to send any copies of the book to this appearance, an unsurprising bit of laziness coming from a publisher that has sunk below my lowest expectations in that regard.
This aside, this is perhaps the only existing video of my winter 2009-2010 "mini tour." Very similar in content to the audio featured on the Resonance FM live talk on the same subject, so you may want to choose between one or the other :) .
P.R. / propaganda / still imagery
still under construction, please bear with us :-/