Thomas Bey William Bailey is an author, electro-acoustic composer, audio documentarian and occasional educator.
      
As a writer, his focal points are cultural extremes and interesting, under-explored aspects of sensory perception and affect. His published material - both full-length books and anthology contributions - has dealt with the peripheries of electronic music and sound art (Micro Bionic), the history of self-released audio (Unofficial Release), the cultural history of synesthesia (To Hear the World with New Eyes) and neuroaesthetics / cultural anthropology (Sonic Phantoms, in collaboration with Barbara Ellison). He is now completing Authenticentrism, a study of idealized authenticity within all genres of art production.

His personal sound work is characterized by intense, cinematic pieces that interrogate notions of utopia, social conditioning, and media saturation, also delving into the philosophical implications of unusual cognitive phenomena (e.g. negative autoscopy, Cotard syndrome). More recent compositions have also been non-conceptual and with more of an unorthodox "healing music" approach to them.
 
TBWB has lived and worked in Japan and several distinct regions of the U.S. and Europe. He now lives in South Carolina. 

A more detailed 'press' bio is available here.