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 Avant-garde

CD + MP3

Oceans

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

Novum Organum - Progressive Stages of Certainty

Commissioned and composed as a tribute to Bob Moog during his residency at La Grange College in 1997.  Premiered at the Gala concert and originally published on the Moog tribute CD by LGC in '97.  Included in the 2-disc set Acousma on EMF Media.

Cathedral Sky (1997) - Tribute to Bob Moog

Anodyne Revisited

Anodynos

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

Dream Suspension

A Darker Passage

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.

Time Crystal (Early Mix Version)

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)

Electroacoustic music for dreamers.  Available on iTunes and elsewhere this is the title track of the acousmatic CD of the same title that also includes several other works composed in 2014.

REPEATED BY DREAMS

One of several sketches for a new work for string orchestra - a current project. Available on CD at : www.aucourantrecords.com

Folio 7: Escursione Selvatici

Track 9 from the CD "POESIS ATHESIS", by Robert Scott Thompson.  For more clips and information: www.aucourantrecords.com.

A collection culled from the scores of ten films by Terrance Dunn. Thus music was composed specifically for these films. In total 10 hours of music was composed for the project,

Moonbeam Splashes on Water

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

The opening track from the recording - Alchemy - released in 2000 on Aucourant Records. (www.aucourantrecords.com)

Clips from the other tracks on the record are available at the website.

This is one of my favorite projects from the last decade!

Refrain

A music lover in Germany wrote to me recently.  He sent me a scrap of blank manuscript paper and a return envelope.  He wanted me to sign the paper, and perhaps put a few notes on it.  I did.  I also composed this short work for him and sent him the score and recording.

For Peter Muller - Trio for Alto Flute, Harp and Piano

MEGALITH-MONOLITH for piano

Studio rough-mix, out-take, from the current Anodize project currently being recorded for Fall 2015 release.  Download NOW as this track may become a rarity when it goes off-line.

PALE BLUE DOT (Early Version)

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)

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

HOLLYWOOD AND HIGHLAND

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)

Little Wonders (Time Falls Away)

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

Featuring Dr. Stuart Gerber, virtuoso percussionist. This work is a study on piano sounds using a real-time signal processing system in Max 6 designed for a new concert work for mixed chamber ensemble and electroacoustics, commissioned by Bent Frequency. Available on CD at : www.aucourantrecords.com

FOLIO - Liminality ~ Homage to Xenakis

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

A composition from 1993 originally recorded on analog equipment.  Remixed and remastered in 2018.  A musical tribute to one of my mentors, composer Joji Yuasa.

WIND IN TREES - Homage to Joji Yuasa (1993) - REMIX

'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

Reward on Moozar : http://reward-my-music.com/26161 Live performance of Visitation - Out of the Vivid Air - Stuart Gerber, percussion.  Bent Frequency at MASS Collective, May 11, 2012, Atlanta.

NEW MIX with level adjustments (5/19/2012) - Download now enabled.

Visitation-Out of the Vivid Air LIVE

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


SHADOW SENSE (early demo version)

(Live recording: World Saxophone Congress 2012, Aberdeen Scotland)

Filigree and Shadow (2012) for soprano saxophone and viola - performed by Jan Berry Baker and Tania Maxwell Clements, recorded live at St. Salvator's Chapel, Aberdeen, Scotland, July 12, 2012.

Newly edited and mixed recording (2017).

Filigree and Shadow for soprano saxophone and viola

A track from the 2012 CD - UPON THE EDGE OF NIGHT


Listening Before Radar

8_12_19

Jeux Mécaniques - Les Voix De Sa Tête

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

Reward on Moozar : http://reward-my-music.com/26177 Orbital Lullaby is the first full-length collaboration by sound artist Craig Dongoski and composer Robert Scott Thompson. Released in February, 2011

The Sleeping Hostage - from the recording Orbital Lullaby

From the CD Centering, Enfolding, Empowering (2013) - a short excerpt from the recording which is over 60 minutes in duration.  A highly immersive listening experience.

Centering, Enfolding, Empowering - Excerpt I

From the CD Centering, Enfolding, Empowering (2013) - this is a short exceprt from the album which presents this work as an evolving work of over 60 minutes in duration.  Highly immersive.

Centering, Enfolding, Empowering - Excerpt II

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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I like when people download tracks and share them!!  

If you take the time to listen to my work, download it, hit the like button when the mood suggests, re-post tracks, follow me, and in other ways contemplate my music, I will do the same.  If you are interested in my work, and want me to be interested in yours and follow you, just ask me to listen and share.

Special note to film makers, video makers, choreographers, media makers, and game designers:

Custom music is available for commercial and independent films, film students, game designers and anyone in need of original music for specific projects (dance, theatre, installation, etc.).  Please send an email for details. FOR INFORMATION SEND AN EMAIL TO:  aandr [at] aucourantrecords [dot] com

Please add me on Facebook, follow me on Spotify, send me an email, read my blog at Wordpress, and be in contact - I am more interested in you as a person than anything else.  

Long live collaboration and sharing!  

Peace to you all!

Robert Scott Thompson

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