Thomas Phillips (author, composer)

Thomas Phillips (born 1969, Raleigh, NC) is an American novelist, composer, and musician. As a composer, he is usually credited as Tomas Phillips.^[1] In addition to solo and collaborative projects under his own name, he is a member of the bands Gauchiste and Loincloth.

He has shared concert bills with Francisco López, Sunn O))), and members of Opera McGill, among many others. He was awarded Artist in Residence at Headlands Center for the Arts by the North Carolina Arts Council in 2009. In September 2010, Tokafi made his Quartet for Instruments, composed in residency, album of the month.^[2]

Like most of his music, which draws on a range of electronic and modern composition genres, his fiction typically embraces a minimalist aesthetic not unlike certain contemporary French writers associated with Les Éditions de Minuit. He received his multidisciplinary PhD from Concordia University in Montréal and currently teaches comparative literature at North Carolina State University.

Novels

• Ensemble (8th House Publishing, 2015)
• Insouciance (Spuyten Duyvil, 2011)
• Long Slow Distance (Object Press, 2009)

Story Collections

• Malingerer (Zagava Books, 2014)
• The Light is Alone (Les Éditions de L'Oubli/Ex Occidente Press, 2013)

Theory

• Liminal Fictions in Postmodern Culture: The Politics of Self-Development (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015)
• The Subject of Minimalism: On Aesthetics, Agency, and Becoming (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013)

Discography (as Tomas Phillips)

• "Chuchoter pas de mots" (Silentes/13, 2016)
• Limit_Fold (Line Imprint, 2016)
• Two Compositions (Sad, 2014)
• Five Transpositions, with Kenneth Kirschner (Sad, 2013)
• Vignettes Amplifié with Luigi Turra (Nitkie, 2011)
• Le goût de néant with Craig Hilton (Absinth 2011)
• Quartet for Instruments (Humming Conch, 2010)
• Prosa with Marihiko Hara (Tench, 2010)
• IC with Francisco López (Aural Terrains, 2010)
• Blau with Jason Bivins (Dragon's Eye, 2010)
• Ligne with i8u (Atak, 2009)
• Six Notes (Koyuki_Sound, 2009)
• Les Mailles with Dean King (Monochrome Vision, 2008)
• Chair Bell Floor with Chantale Laplante (Fissure, 2008)
• Drink_Deep (Non Visual Objects, 2007)
• Á Travers le Bord with Dean King (Non Visual Objects, 2006)
• Intermission | Six Feuilles (Line, 2006)
• Anther with i8u (Petite Sono, 2005)
• If Not, Winter with Tobias c. van Veen (and/OAR, 2004)
• On Dit (Trente Oiseaux, 2003)

Bands

• Loincloth, Iron Balls of Steel, (Southern Lord, 2012)
• Gauchiste (self-titled), (Little Black Cloud, 2011)
• Lac, Morceau de Nature, (Naturmacht Productions, 2010)

References

External links

• Official website
• Thomas Phillips at Goodreads
• An Interview with Thomas Phillips
• Tomas Phillips discography at Discogs
• Review of Insouciance
• Review of Intermission/Six Feuilles