TJ Tambellini is a Los Angeles based artist and musician, who explores photography through sculptural composition and vivid complementing palettes, revealing understated moments in the often inanimate, overly habitual landscapes. Much of the work is captured in California and the American Southwest, with an attraction to local flora, sculptural moments, and hi and lo desert towns.
As an experimental musician and sound designer, often using the alias Topian Xome, TJ Tambellini creates immersive sonic experiences that are both meditative and reflective. Drawing on a wide range of techniques, from analog and digital synthesis to field recordings and generative sequencing, TJ creates environmental textures that are meant to be experienced on both a passive and active level.
TJ is also a founding member and contributor
to Volutus Records, a label and collective of Chicago and Los Angeles based artists and musicians. In 2022, TJ and the other founders
of Volutus Records traveled to the Maintenant property in Marfa for a week-long residency of avant improvisational recordings, performance, and visual experiments all within the interior and exterior of the Maintenant barn.