Tom Richards

Tom is a musician, sound designer, artist, researcher, and instrument maker based in Rochdale. 

Tom designs bespoke audio and control systems for Artists and Galleries as well as providing AV design and installation work. He has been working between sonic art, sculpture, film and music since graduating with an MA in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Art in 2004. 

Over the last 15 years, Tom has built his own idiosyncratic modular electronic music system, with which he creates slowly evolving and heavily textured polyrhythmic improvised music. Tom has performed and exhibited widely in the UK, as well as internationally in the US, Brazil, Germany, Peru, Singapore, Hungary, Japan and Sweden. Selected works and live performances have taken place at Tate Britain, Fabric, Barbican, The Queen Elizabeth Hall, The Science Museum, Spike Island, Cafe Oto, MK Gallery, Focal Point, Moogfest, and Camden Arts Centre. 

In 2018, Tom completed a PhD (Goldsmiths/Science Museum) on the work of Daphne Oram: electronic music pioneer, and founder of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. This research included the construction of Oram’s unrealised Mini Oramics synthesizer design (Circa 1975), a project that has since gained worldwide attention, including on BBC News and Wire magazine. He is represented by Nonclassical.