Tony Edwards

Tony Edwards is an Oklahoma based composer and multi-instrumentalist.  His sonic tapestries primarily focus on sound as an immersive and meditative experience with a strong sense of place and emotion that is often hinted-at, sometimes explained, in his deliberate and thematic titles.  He crafts auditory landscapes and atmospheres that transcend conventional genres but intersect ambient, cinematic, doom jazz, drone and noise music through a combination of improvisational experimentation and precise sequencing and looping.

As a photographer Tony has always had an interest in self expression through the abstraction and destructive-exposure processes of image making.  His pursuits in long, multiple exposure and re-photography of advertising, television and film as well as his own images have been attempts of more thoughtful, introspective and provocative photography intended as larger, sequenced narrative works on topics of relationships, inward turmoil, desire, memory and loss.

”In simplest terms, much of my work has been partly auto-biographical in that it was produced in my every day as a pseudo-diary both musically and photographically. However, more recently I find myself interested in both musical and visual art as improvisation and a means of transforming, sampling, rearranging and reimagining in order to create a greater allegorical expression.”