ALBUMS
Public Domain 3D Terrain
sophomore LP - 5 tracks - 42 mins
January 15, 2021 on Disintegration State (ds057)
Public Domain 3D Terrain is a kind of sense-memory story of the clubbing experience
It’s ‘club music’ but not in the sense that it's music you’d necessarily play in a club, more like music which paints a picture of the the nightclub ritual as the central locus of some kind of modern psychogeography
I guess I made it to try and relive that experience vicariously at a time when it is and can only be had through memory
Plasticine Pyramids
Debut LP - 8 tracks - 46 minutes
September 15th 2017
There was a thing I loved to do as a little kid; I used to open all the different coloured plasticine packets in the box and stick them all on top of each other in a big clump & then roll the clump into a giant ball. When I had a good solid ball I'd dig my thumbs deep into the middle and peel the ball open into two halves to reveal the hidden marbled forms inside. Then I'd stretch, pull and twirl the marbled plasticine into different shapes, stick them back together and then roll another ball & repeat – pull the ball open each time to reveal more and more complex forms inside until I reached a point where it became so dense that the colours started to smudge into one other and it crossed the line of beautiful random complexity and became an unintelligible ugly mess. That’s pretty much what I do here with sound, always trying to hit as near to the line as possible without going too far over… hopefully”
MIXTAPE
Dishwater
November 1st 2019
A 69 minute mixtape (nice!) of all-original and as-yet-unreleased tracks from the Body in the Thames vaults
If I had to describe it I'd say it's some kind of synth heavy, sludgy Space Disco that ratchets up the dopamine along the way
BODY IN THE THAMES is a Manchester-born, Stockholm-based multi-instrumentalist, composer & producer who makes synthetic music with bits & voltages arranged in repetitive but often morphing motifs in order to generate frequencies in the nervous system of the listener that correspond with the stimulation & interaction of motor & auditory pathways
This is variously termed 'electronica', 'techno', 'house', 'dance music' or similar - but please do not call it IDM
Sometimes - not often - he also attempts to engage the listener's cognitive pathways with lyrics and vocals but this is hard
Therefore, one of the functions of this site is to provide a cognitive framework or set of references to illuminate the processes and impulses behind the music - not to intellectualize per se but instead to provide hopefully useful context