Tom Wasinger has composed and performed music for modern dance including work for Seattle's preeminent Llory Wilson Dance Theater and Boulder's own wold dance ambassadors, Helander and Company. MORE INFO
 
 
 
 

Tom has composed music for film including writing most of the soundtrack for the first fearture-length mountain biking film, Tread. On this and other commercial short soundtracks, (including work for Pearl Izumi and Schwinn), Tom has tapped his musical background in rock and roll, jazz, classical, bluegrass, and ethnic music to create scores of extraordinary texture and character. As in all his work, Tom's fantastic collection of instruments from around the world, both modern and ancient, add unique and inspired voices to the rich mix of composition. MORE INFO 

RESONATING STONES

It started with a rumor of a 3rd century chinese stone gong in a museum archive, before long, Tom Wasinger was banging on every stone within reach. Soon he had a library of sampled stone sounds: From high, bell-like andesite, to deep, woody sandstone, there was a remarkable tonal diversity. With these sounds he composed the ground breaking album, Rock Music (available from Invincible Records), featured on NPR's All Things Considered.

Tom didn't rest until he had built an orchestra of stone instruments, including a basenite marimba, stone topped slit drums, and a slate kick drum, he even commissioned an instrument maker to create an ocarina of pure green jade

. Now with his partner, percussionist Jesse Manno, The Lost Angel Stone Ensemble performs a dazzling repetoire of songs that are both amazingly beautiful, haunting, diverse and wildly entertaining. The Ensemble has toured the western US, playing to packed houses, and has been featured on national TV and radio.MORE INFO

Track to Bumbliwas is a musical journey across the continent of Australia: from the sculpted earth of the central desert, to the clanlands of Arnemland up north, to the steaming teaming rain forests of the gold coast. Tom Wasinger and didgeridu master Jim Harvey sought the places and people, sacred in aboriginal culture to learn to "sing the land", sing the caves, gorges, riverbeds and stars of this the oldest and most primal of continents.

The didgeridu is the traditional wind instrument of Aboriginal Australia and is made from tree limbs hollowed out by white ants and termites. Although it seems primitive, the didgeridu is remakably expressive and varied in tone and timber. The didgeridu is a unique , distinctive, and hautingly familiar voice that resonates within all of us, speaking the wisdom, visions, and dreams of the world's oldest indigenous culture.

The music on this album is not traditional Aboriginal music, but is an artistic response to the powerful feelings evoked by travels through the center of Australia. MORE INFO