Will Thomas is a composer & producer based in Los Angeles and Ojai California. He began his professional career writing music for movie trailers and was hired as the composer for the seminal dark-funk-techno-sic-fi show 'GvsE' on the USA/SyFy network. During a stint in New York City, Will released four albums under his minimal electronic moniker Plumbline on London’s Hydrogen Dukebox label. Two of the releases were collaborations with Roger Eno (Transparencies & Endless City/Concrete Garden). He has also released six albums under his song based collaborative project Dive Index which includes contributions from Natalie Walker, Merz, Joseph Arthur, Cat Martino, Simone White, Mark Gardener (Ride), Ian Masters (Pale Saints), Alison Chesley, Julia Kent, Jason Bentley, and The Album Leaf, among others. Dive Index has been warmly embraced by LA-based tastemaker radio station KCRW.
In between releasing albums, Will has worked on commercials, film and TV projects. His music has been featured in CSI, Melrose Place, and Netflix’s Insatiable, Outer Banks as well as various trailers including Invisible Man and Haunting of Hill House. Other clients include Johnson & Johnson, Aveda, Smirnoff, Herman Miller, Cody, the Nocturne podcast and a sound installation for the flagship BMW showroom in Paris.
Will was the composer on the feature film, Downward Angel and the puppet horror film The Haunted Swordsman which won the award for Best Score at the 2021 Filmquest Film Festival. In 2017, he was commissioned to compose and record an original piece for the Santa Barbara Dance Theater. He has also launched the In_Neutral app which allows users to collectively generate a unique and evolving piece of music in a site-specific, immersive environment.
The most recent Dive Index album, Refolded: Waving At Airplanes Remixes revisits and reinterprets songs from the 2020 release -Waving At Airplanes - and features a remix by Mike Lindsay (of Tunng/LUMP) and vocals by Natalie Walker and Merz - out now on the Neutral Music imprint. After producing two Helen Money albums, Will teamed up with Helen for a dark and intense collaborative album entitled “TRACE”. Out now on Thrill Jockey Records.
In January of 2026 Will teamed up with the renowned Ojai Music Festival to create an event called Sound Unseen. The audience members were seated in curtained-off “pods” - 8 feet in diameter and 10 feet tall - so they could not see the performers. The lights went black and the musicians walk around the room and between the pods. Then, at the 8 min mark, live lighting performers projected colorful abstract images on the fabric, all improvised with the musicians.
In May of 2026, Will curated an event called A/V (Audio Visual) that explored the intersection of Visual Art and Sound. Twelve artists created unique work and installed at a private residence in Ojai, California. In conjunction with the Ojai Music Festival, Will worked with each artist to create a custom audio accompaniment for each piece. The recorded track was then played through speakers at each location. All the audio has been compiled and released on the album "A/V”. This is somewhat of an untraditional album considering the pieces were composed and arranged such that the viewer of each art work would typically experience just a portion of each track and not necessarily from the beginning or even the entire piece. Regardless, hope you enjoy it! More info on the artists, the process, and the concept behind each piece HERE.
Latest releases -
Will Thomas - AV - Out Now
Helen Money / Will Thomas - TRACE - Out Now on Thrill Jockey
Dive Index - Refolded: Waving At Airplanes Remixes (Neutral Music)
Dive Index - Waving At Airplanes (Neutral Music)
Helen Money - Atomic (Thrill Jockey)
The Haunted Swordsman (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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