These are tracks from various recordings.  The full CDs are available everywhere and are least expensive at Bandcamp.

https://robert-scott-thompson.bandcamp.com/

Dreamsongs

A few studio edits from sessions for the disc - Upon the Edge of Night (2012).

Ambient Studio Edits

Electroacoustic

Ambient

Instrumental

Electroacoustic composition from 2013. Featured on the CD recording - The New View Over Atlantis - released in August of 2013.

CD + MP3

Novum Organum - Progressive Stages of Certainty

An early ambient track - appeared on the full-length recording Rendezvous from 1986. Recorded in Eugene in 1981.

ARP 2600, Echoplex and Tascam 3440 - among other instruments...including electric guitar.

Arcane Discoveries

Anodyne Revisited

Anodynos

Studio out-take from current sketch sessions on a new project for 2022.

Dream Suspension

A Darker Passage

From 2016 - currently not released on any album.

Mysterium

A track from a forthcoming collaboration album - rough mix version.

From A Language Of Light (with Erdem Helvacioglu)

One of several out-take premixes for an anticipated new release for 2015 - with Erdem Helvacioglu.

From a Language of Light (Chime Mix)

from an upcoming collaboration recording...expected for release in 2015...

Crystalline (with Erdem Helvacioglu)

from a forthcoming album project...expected for release in 2015...

Mystery School (with Erdem Helvacioglu)

Traveller

This is a studio out-take, rough mix of a track for the forthcoming record - Dragging the Sea with Dreams (2022).  Additional guitars by Spanky.

Ride a Southern Sky (studio outtake)

An outtake cue from the current sessions for Dragging the Sea with Dreams.

The Third (studio outtake)

Studio outtake from sessions for Dragging the Sea with Dreams.

Traverse (studio outtake)

A short composition created specifically for the "Belfast Imagined" Special Issue of Five Points a Journal of Literature and Art (Vol. 13 No. 2, 2010).  "Fae Oot O Killyglen" refers to a specific location in Co. Antrim. The composition is in three sections. The first, entitled "Five Ducks", is the story of one man's experience with a spontaneously reanimating water fowl.  "I've Never Been Normal", the second section, features a passage from the life story of Elizabeth Yenson, Belfast's oldest resident (110). The final section, "Sheep and Sinners", deconstructs the loud admonitions of a notorious firebrand, the Rev. Ian Paisley. Available on CD at : www.aucourantrecords.com

Fae Oot O Killyglen

Outtake from sessions for the current recording projects.

Cloud Dreams (studio outtake)

Studio outtake from sessions for current projects.

Silent Rooms (studio outtake)

A studio outtake from sessions for current projects.

Waiting on Spring Rains (studio outtake)

Studio outtake from sessions for current projects.  Variation of Waiting on Spring Rains rough version.

At the Edge of the Particle State (studio outtake) - Waiting on Spring Rains - Version

SHIMMER IN THE TWILIGHT - Victoria Bearden and Symbolist

Sending to Heaven (1986) - Symbolist - featuring Victoria Bearden

Electroacoustic version of Metta (percussion and soprano saxophone).  This work in its original form for percussion and soprano saxophone is now released on Centaur.  You can find it here and there.  Here: https://open.spotify.com/album/562UJsSVSPwgOPo7JwXEzC and there: https://www.amazon.com/Diamorpha-Bent-Frequency-Duo-Project/dp/B0722HTQLN/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1494079650&sr=1-1&keywords=Bent+Frequency%27 

Released on May 5, 2017

Metta (Electroacoustic)

From Cloud Gazing - Visual Music Works Volume I (DVD) - also featured in a different mix on the CD Morning of the World.  Descanso Gardens is a famous camellia garden in Southern California - I love it there.  This is what it sounds like to me.

Descanso

Studio out-take from 2015 sessions.  This track may not last long as a download and just might become a rarity.  If you like it you can download it NOW for your own collection.

Lavandula

Track 3 from the 2009 CD "Gold Flowers Bloom Mercury Petals", comprised of 12 tracks which flow together like a concert suite, with subtle transitions between the main works.  Similar in style to the landmark releases The Silent Shore (1996), Frontier (1998) and Blue Day (2000), the album provides for highly immersive listening in the best tradition of classical ambient music. Serene, flowing, richly layered music of significant beauty and refinement. www.aucourantrecords.com - sound clips from all tracks are available.

Waters and the Wild

From the 2005 Hypnos recording - At the Still Point of the Turning World.  This track - Figured in the Drift of Stars - closes the album and is among my favorites from this project.

Other clips from the disc an be found at www.aucourantrecords.com.

Figured in the Drift of Stars

Reward on Moozar : http://reward-my-music.com/26165 A track from the recording sessions for the album projects Stonefly and Symbolist School  - recorded sometime in the mid-1980's.  Basically, this is a between-takes jam with Tom North (aka Bubster, True North, and ~tn) on guitars, RST (aka RTD, or Total Bub) on keys and textures, and Dorian HL Maras (no nickname - figures) on something or another (apparently that is - because any  bass tracks seem to be muted here).  One day these old recordings might be released as back catalog for the bored and curious.  So many sessions round about this time in sunny SoCal! This one was a bit more "topside" than others, if you know what I mean. ;-)

Total Bubster (1985)

Studio out-take, rough-mix for the upcoming Anodize release - for fall of 2015.  Download NOW because the track will go off-line and become a rarity in the near future.  This version is lighter and less complex than the album version.

PERIGEE (Early Version)

A studio out-take from 2015.  A cheap imitation for letting off some steam.  Suggest a download as this mix of this rarity track will not be published elsewhere.

Brain and Ego (Cheap Imitation)

The first track from the CD The Silent Shore on Oasis/Mirage. More information, including clips from the other 14 tracks on the disc, can be found at www.aucourantrecords.com.

Dreamsong

Studio out-take from sessions for the forthcoming Anodize record. (June 14, 2015) - Early version of this track - the actual album track is longer and more elaborate with new sections.  The final version can be head on the Pale Blue Dot record originally published by Anodize. https://open.spotify.com/album/655HKMEsHY4tB5JQeWPogq

Slow Rotation of Stars (early version)

Created with Kyma 7, Metasynth, Csound and associated tools.  Musica Nova 2015, Prague.

SATTVA

Mock-up of a chamber work in memory of Pierre Boulez.  Instrumentation: 2 flutes, violoncello, guitar, harp and vibraphone.

Seul dans un jardin de roses blanches, J'entends une mosaïque d'oiseaux - Homage to Boulez

Featured on the full-length ambient recording UPON THE EDGE OF NIGHT.

https://open.spotify.com/album/4v3vCQbVDZsWZbHCrTnCM5

The entire album is online - Spotify, iTunes and so on.  Many of my works are available in digital and streaming.  Thanks for listening.

The Misty Place

Live recording.  (afl, cl, tbn, vla, vc, pno, perc)
Trieste Prima Festival
Ensemble MD7
Steven Loy, Conductor
Composed in 2016

Parataxis for ensemble

Chamber quartet.  Alto Flute (Flute), Bass Clarinet (Clarinet), Piano, Violoncello. Published by American Composers Edition, New York.

Projection: Mobile-Stabile-Mobile ~ Homage to Joji Yuasa

'Cello sextet from 1984.  Score and parts finally being published this year (only 34 years later!) by American Composers Alliance (ACA).  This recording was performed by Craig Hultgren. http://robert-scott-thompson.bandcamp.com/album/the-wind-at-beni-midar

The Wind at Beni Midar was originally composed in the early 1980's and was subsequently entirely revised in 1989 and editorially revised in 1998. This work is inspired by the short story of the same title from Paul Bowles' "A Hundred Camels in the Courtyard."

This book spans four tales of contemporary life in a land where alternative means are sought as a way out of the phenomenological world. The composition itself strains the notion of the phenomenology of time consciousness, as the materials of the work are largely framed in a moment-form scheme. Cast into two large sections, the 25 minute duration is first characterized by fleeting musical structures which emphasize both sound and silence in equal measure. The second part of the work is continuous in over all sound texture yet freely developing an elaborate morphology.

Scored for six ‘celli, details of timbre and texture owe much to my work in the field of electroacoustic music. The cello is an instrument of remarkable versatility and the use of a sextet provides superb resources of sound.

However, no processing of the sounds of the sextet was done, save the addition of reverberation. All of the sounds and textures are created out of the acoustic instrument.

The other works on this disc are all related to The Wind at Beni Midar in various, elemental ways. Tagmeme (sentence slot: any one of the various positions in the structure of a sentence into which a word or phrase of a particular grammatical type can fit), is based entirely on a single sound fragment of cello that is elongated to express its total duration of nine and one-half minutes. Essay and Light is a Liquid both use 'cello source materials and The Gramophone (based on the poem of T.S. Eliot) adds computer processed vocal sounds and spoken text to other sound materials derived from cello source recordings.

Re-mastered in 2007 and also in 2018
credits: Aucourant Records (BMI)
released June 19, 2000

The Wind At Beni Midar - REMIXED

An early demo version of a track from the 2012 CD - UPON THE EDGE OF NIGHT


SHADOW SENSE (early demo version)

8_12_19

Jeux Mécaniques - Les Voix De Sa Tête

This is blending of ambient, contemporary instrumental, new age, and avant-garde genres.  Collaboration with Erdem Helvacioglu.  From the forth-coming album of the same title (2022)

FROM A LANGUAGE OF LIGHT

For solo flute performed by John Fonville.

Folio 2: Escape Velocities, for flute (John Fonville, flute)

Track for rM reBOOT compilation disc. Recorded in May of 2013 at the Resonance Observatory.  Also featured on the CD Repeated by Dreams on Aucourant Records.

Porcelain Sky

RST Biography: 

Composer of instrumental, ambient, and electroacoustic music - ranging in style from avant-garde classical music to popular music.

Working in the areas of high modernism, extended instrumental resources, computer assisted composition, chamber music, orchestral music, acousmatic music, software synthesis, sonic art, music for film, sonic interactivity and sound installation. 

International award-winning composer with over 50 solo recordings and numerous works on compilations distributed both in physical form internationally (CDs in stores such as Amazon.com) and in digital format online (iTunes, for example).

More detailed information, contact details, licensing details, sound clips, and downloads are available at the label website for Aucourant Records (BMI) and Aucourant Media Productions (BMI).  Music published in print with American Composers Edition (BMI).

www.aucourantrecords.com

Update to official website coming soon!

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Robert Scott Thompson is an electroacoustic composer who has labored in relative obscurity for years--releasing a large number of works in a surprising number of genres. Two Thompson releases, "The Silent Shore" and "Frontier", gave his music wider distribution and opened his talent up to a larger group of ambient aficionados. The two discs were fabulously diverse displays of ambience, dark and light. To my mind, "The Silent Shore" is one of the finest ambient releases of the 1990s, and "Frontier" was a more than worthy follow-up. 

Thompson's music is extremely cerebral and academic, fitting into genre definitions quite tenuously. The totality of his work may not be to a particular listener’s tastes every time, but one can always be sure Thompson is treading new territories, experimenting with sound, continuously moving forward.

~ The Ambient Review

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What is here: 

Some tracks are from published albums but much of what you will hear is unpublished or early versions of published recordings.  More and more, this space is being used to post tracks that are studio out-takes.  This music is not always found elsewhere.

Tracks are being added continuously.  Most are downloadable and I suggest downloading as the tracks may not be continuously available and are generally unpublished versions of things.

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