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B>Composer, Tuba, Didjeridu, Voice, Electronics, Loops, Throat Singing

The unique musical voice of Tom Heasley is heard internationally as composer, performer and recording artist. At live performances and in recordings, Heasley gathers the warp and woof of tuba, didjeridu, throat-singing, looping and electronics and weaves them into a musical tapestry of great originality and power. He creates “a rich and sonorous aural experience that flies in the face of all the dumb cliches about what tuba music is…” A true "father of invention", Heasley has turned his Achilles' heel - the tuba - into a force majeure.

From Silicon Valley to Siberia, Tom Heasley’s music has been featured on radio programs throughout the world, such as National Public Radio, Public Radio International, Carl Stone’s Ears Wide Open, John Schaefer’s New Sounds (WNYC), Kalvos and Damian’s New Music Bazaar, John Diliberto's Echoes, and BBC Radio's Mixing It and Late Junction

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Bobby Bradford, Tom Heasley, Ken Rosser: Varistar

Read "Varistar" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
October 20, 2009

Recorded in Los Angeles in 1999, but mixed and released ten years later by tubaist Tom Heasley and Kronos Quartet engineer Scott Fraser, Varistar is a moody and atmospheric work from three experienced improvisers. Its predominantly slow and introspective feel of its seven improvised pieces create, at times, an almost claustrophobic intensity. The ...

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Tom Heasley: A Passage to Sound

By Tom Heasley

Label: Full Bleed Music
Released: 2008
Track listing: Different Worlds; 98% Pure; Elegy for Philip Berrigan; Zephyr; Cliffs of Moher.

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Tom Heasley: A Passage to Sound

by Tobias Fischer
March 23, 2008

Tom HeasleyA Passage to SoundFull Bleed Music2008 ---> Tom Heasley is sensitive about the way that people label his music--very sensitive in fact. We've been in regular contact ever since I first listened to Passages (Full Bleed Music, 2007), a disc filled to the brim with spacey, sensuous and eruptive ...

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