Can you tell us a little about yourself?

I'm Thomas from Cleveland, OH, and I write music as Distance Prefix.

How long have you been writing music?

I grew up playing music. Primarily, I've always been a drummer, but I play a bit of piano and am decent at electric guitar. In high school, I started making electronic music via Garageband. I continued doing this occasionally into college when I made my first EP in the winter of 2015 after a breakup, leaving me with a lot of free time.

What inspired you to start playing and making music?

I grew up in a music-heavy home and had exposure to many great classic rock / 90s alternative bands as a kid.

How would you describe your style of music?

My goal is to be diverse. I like playing with beats and sounds but don't follow a specific structure, and my songs are an evolving journey. I'd call it "electronic," but I don't know if my works fit neatly into one specific genre.

How is your personality reflected in your work?

It's reflective of things I like. I reference many movies, video games, and stories I like in my track names. I often have ideas of what kind of artist I admire that I want to emulate in a specific track while putting my spin on it.

Describe your creative process when you write new music.

My plan is always to make something different from my last release. Something that excites me and leads to new sounds is the different approaches to building a song. For example, I've been making heavy industrial sounding beats with a step sequencer. In that case, I'll follow that up with a completely different approach, like purely using samples and trying to achieve a distinct sound and atmosphere.

What is the name of your latest releases?

My 3rd full album is a double album called Morning Sadness.

What was the inspiration for that release?

Morning Sadness is an introspective-themed album that explores the tension between a happy life and the feeling of something being wrong and numbing happening in parallel. The album delves into various aspects of life, such as relationships, work, and friends, and uses the word "symmetry" as a metaphor for a relationship. The album's overall message is about the fear and loneliness that comes with the choice to destroy one's life to find a more fulfilling one.

What are you currently working on?

I finished up my 4th album late last year and will be releasing that in the next month or so. It'll be a very different album from anything I've made, and I'm excited to release it. I'd describe it as "beautiful" sounding, melancholy, and even poppy. I'm working on my 5th album, which will be a sequel to The Long Winter. Hopefully, a lot of interesting new things are on the horizon for me.

How can folks contact you (socials/email/websites etc.)

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/distanceprefix/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/distanceprefix Free Bandcamp download codes: https://www.getmusic.fm/artists/distance-prefix