“Like Some Heliotropic Plague” is a sort of taster or “dress rehearsal” for a series that will depart from the usual pure acousmatic approach, and move towards intense “tonal” music more suitable for cinematic / filmic narratives. There will be a more expanded release in this style early next year on the Sublime Retreat label, and then a possible 2 x CD release deeper into 2026. I was recently inspired, for some reason not even really clear to me, to do a sort of “Gothic We

preview of album artwork for "...Masks" Early next year will see some significant changes in my compositional approach. To date, the audio material I’ve been most regularly associated with is in a kind of cut-up / hardcore acousmatic style in which tone color is the paramount musical value. But after quite a bit of rehearsing, and a heap of discarded drafts, I now have a couple albums’ worth of material that wed this “classic” TBWB style to something much more composed, stre

With the 'Audio Postcards' series winding down, the coming years' worth of FMOA activity will involve a couple ambitious and inventive new series of recordings. We have the Films Made of Antimatter series accepting submissions now, and an additional series entitled "Cozy Mysteries." The literary-minded will know a "cozy mystery" as a kind of mystery novel in which all the nasty stuff happens "off screen", as it were, and we can then focus on the detective prowess of cats who

TBWB featured on Don Campau's "No Pigeonholes" podcast

Looks like I have finally gotten around to (mostly!) archiving the Anechoic Chamber podcast, for those who had asked about this...

Welcome to the new home base for Fifteen Minutes of Anonymity, and for Thomas Bey William Bailey (me). This is gradually going to be more...