ROBERT SCOTT THOMPSON
 Robert Scott Thompson is a composer of instrumental and electroacoustic music. He earned the B.Mus. degree from the University of Oregon and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California at San Diego. His primary teachers include Bernard Rands, Roger Reynolds, Joji Yuasa and F. Richard Moore. He creates work in a wide variety of forms ranging from chamber and orchestral music to works for the virtuoso soloist, computer music, video and performance art.
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Robert Scott Thompson Releases
Poesis Athesis marks the debut release on Lens Records from internationally acclaimed composer Robert Scott Thompson.
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Sanctum
Sanctum marks the 2nd release on EMF Media from composer Robert Scott Thompson. Again working in the field of electroacoustic music - much like his previous EMF CD Acousma.
Cloud Gazing marks the first video release from Robert Scott Thompson - these intermedia works are predicated on the notion of “kinetic electronic painting.”
Cloud Cover is the debut of the newest ambient music project on Aucourant Records - Fountainhead - the creative inspiration of well known ambient music composer Robert Scott Thompson.
Robert's 2005 release on the Hypnos Label - "Robert Scott Thompson writes some of the most provocative ambient music
currently available." - www.windandwire.com
James Johnson & Robert Scott Thompson
Forgotten Places
“ ’The Pearl’ (Eno/Budd) for the new millennium” - Wind and Wire
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Acousma
"If this is not the best CD of Robert’s career, it is certainly one of the most important CD’s. This is an absolutely essential CD!” - Jim Brenholts
Air Friction melds computer generated music, pop, world, and ambient influences into a cohesive collection of fourteen pieces, milestones of aural communication.
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Blue Day
Blue Day is one of the finest of Robert Scott Thompson's ambient discs.
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Frontier
The landmark follow-up CD to The Silent Shore, a recording considered by many to be a "classic" in the modern ambient genre.
Ginnungagap is perhaps one of Robert Scott Thompson’s best works and is gaining in popularity and garnering critical response, long after its release in 1993.
Improbable Pianos marks the release of Robert Scott Thompson’s earliest recorded works - written during his days as a compositional student at the University of California at San Diego (UCSD).
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Pendere
For anyone new to Robert Scott Thompson’s work this would be a good start - but there is much that would be missed if the listener stopped here.
A seventy-two minute disc featuring 7 computer music compositions created over an eight year period, from 1986 to 1994, by composer Robert Scott Thompson.
Considered by many to be a "classic" in the modern ambient genre, The Silent Shore has received numerous critical accolades.
The Strong Eye is a long-form work, some might suggest a concept album, of nearly 70 minutes in duration and in nine titled movements.
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