Real name: Thomas Shrubsole

Runs the label Dissolving Records which he set up 2007 to release The Dissolving Orchestra. Set up the Dissolving sub-label Parenthetical Activities in 2018 releasing the double cassette box set Themes and Variations.
Started Local Studies in early 2015 with Craig Tattersall the first release being their collaborative Untitled.
Has used different aliases as well as his own name, the most frequent being Sub Loam, the first release under which name was in 2009 with the Cotton Goods box set Ohr.