Thomas Dimuzio

Thomas Dimuzio is a musician originally from Pittsburgh, PA, later Boston, MA and for over 25 years now a resident of San Francisco, CA. He’s a composer, musician and mastering engineer who has worked with the likes of Chris Cutler, Fred Frith, Matmos, Dan Burke, Paul Haslinger, his duo with Joseph Hammer known as Dimmer and many, many others. The BBC has described his work as “brilliant and rarely less than entertaining”. He’s perhaps mastered over 1000 titles from his own Gench Mastering (including many here on this label). His clientele has included the likes of Waxwork Records, Matmos, Negativland, Firesign Theatre, ISIS, AMM, clipping., Jonathan Snipes, Doctor Nerve, Psychic TV3, Xiu Xiu, Devin Hoff, GG Allin, KK Null, Joey P, Fred Frith, Nels Cline, Yuka Honda, Wil Blades, Scott Amendola, and many others. In his work as a sound designer and audio engineer, Dimuzio has worked with a number of synthesizer and effects processor manufacturers such as Kurzweil, Lexicon, and OSC to create custom presets and sample libraries, and he has collaborated with Fred Frith and Tom Cora, and the Rova Saxophone Quartet to create sound libraries for Rarefaction and Big Fish Audio. Dimuzio has also plays a key role in the continuous development and improvement of Avid’s industry-standard, Pro Tools recording and mixing tools and environments. Though working in both the digital and analog domains both, his most notable instrumentation relies on the Buchla 200e system (including 259e and 258e oscillators and an FM radio tuner) along with clones by Mark Verbos and Mike Peak. His sounds are of an ambient extension of musique concrète in conjunction with the exploration of transcending genre, boundaries and styles or an ever transforming culmination of that which fits the format.