Thomas Carnacki is a Bay Area-based sonic entity, primarily functioning as the performance and recording outlet for Gregory Scharpen.  Carnacki recordings and performances tend towards the textural, the subtle, the disquieting and unsettling. Thomas Carnacki music has been featured in numerous dance and theatrical productions, HBO and PBS documentaries, and avant-garde experimental short films; and Carnacki has performed on both sides of the continent and as part of such festivals and entities as 23five’s Activating The Medium, MEDIATE’s Soundwave, the Whitney Biennial, and the Illuminated Corridor.  Carnacki recorded releases have somehow compelled people to write peculiarly complimentary things: The Quietus notes that the Carnacki half of the 2014 split lp with Vulcanus68 is “a beautifully engaging and evolving series of crafted textures and tones to orbit our ears and enter our unconscious.” and in reference to 2010’s “The Disappearance of This Terrible Spool” ep, Brainwashed remarks that “[Scharpen] attempts to open up listeners’ worldview to the things that are best ignored; tapping into mental states that may tap back … this is a whole other world where art and the afterlife briefly touch.”