
THOMAS BEY WILLIAM BAILEY
background artwork: paul takahashi
Here is a substantial, if incomplete, overview of my published work. My written seeds are scattered across the Web, with some of these bearing more fruit than others. Some external sites featuring work from me include Fandor's Keyframe, Thought Catalog, Hyperallergic, Rhizome, Radikaliai (Lithuania), Red Bull Music Academy and others. Individual links will be provided to these very soon, for your convenience. Here are some things that have managed to pass my quality control standards.
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books
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Micro Bionic: Radical Electronic Music & Sound Art in the 21st Century
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Unofficial Release: Self-Released and Handmade Art in Post-Industrial Society
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To Hear The World With New Eyes: A Cultural History of the Synesthetic and Cross-Sensory Arts
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Sonic Phantoms (with Barbara Ellison)
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super sensor
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An excellent magazine on the sonic arts, originating in 2018 from the SONM organization in Spain, whose initial issue came in a USB card format (my copies have long since sold out, sorry).
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Featured within are a good deal of texts that are now otherwise inaccessible, since their hosting sites (e.g. Vague Terrain in Toronto) are now defunct. Also included are several translations of my essays into Portuguese, Greek, and Italian.
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You can download the compressed file of all my text contributions here.
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SUBSTACK
Currently my go-to site for critical essays and excerpts of works in progress.
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medium
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Archives here still exist, but nothing new has really appeared here since moving operations over to Substack a few years ago. Nevertheless, there are some exclusives here, including a few pieces (on Brutalism and Situationism, respectively) singled out by the Medium editors for featuring on the site:
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