BURNING THE GROUND

Darax

Horu

Improvisation on modular synthesizer using photograph by Tim Bushnell as visual score.

Turbulence (for Tim Bushnell)

From the Folio series (Volume 1).  This and other tracks to appear in other forms shortly. Available on CD at : www.aucourantrecords.com

CD + MP3

Folio 6: Crystal Rain on a Distant Star

This is the episode 10 of my weekly show The Quiet Shush! The Drivetime Edition - your soundtrack for your commute home or a peaceful evening of focus.
Each week I bring you a mix of mellow, instrumental music. From ambient and jazz to drone, neo-classical, post-rock, shoegaze, and more.
This show is designed to help you unwind and tune into the moment—whether you’re commuting, studying, working or simply chilling

The Quiet Shush 10 - the Drivetime Show

This full throttle 80's synth pop styled song started off as a joke. Kidding around with my fella, I got inspired by some 80's movie melodies (and obviously Pretty Woman) and recorded a rough vocal into my iPhone. Then what happened was this... I hope you like our zany silliness. It represents a lot though as far as influences and things that shaped who we are musically and as people of the 80's (although some will argue I'm a 90s kid! ?) Dedicated to all things 1980s, synthesizers and to all the Jasons roaming the earth searching for more "good beats" to program on their vintage Macintosh computers. ? 

Click or copy the link to view the video: 
https://youtu.be/iFdfG0cLbsc  

NoSyn (featuring SynthNymph) - Pretty Jason

Common Prayer Studios presents the latest installment of an ongoing musical venture targeted at electronic and avant garde independent artists. A long time in the making, this is the second installment, A Very Electronik Compilation II. The original project took place in 2004. The goal is to take a demo, idea or rough sketch that you might have kicking around in the creative ether and the CPS stamp on it, creating a whole new outlook on the idea whilst still maintaining the original musical “kernel” if you will… The vision is to bring to completion abstract ideas or even take a more finished project and put a new spin on it. Collaborating with other like minds who might not normally get heard brings a sense of unity, strength and opens up a world of creative diversity. It is truly an experiment of sight and sound and we hope more of you join in on being so very strange yet feeling completely understood (for once). 

ASI - AVEC2/Interlude Act 1

From A Very Electronik Compilation Vol.2 (AVECII) currently in production. A song inspired by past, present and lost future. Paths we chosen throughout our lives and somewhere along the line we walked off the straight and narrow past and got lost through the maze of life. Images and memories of family, friends and loved ones. Moments of our life that have long past but are fresh in our minds as if they happened yesterday. This song is inspired by the labyrinth of life. The good and the bad. +

"You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present ...” -John Green, Looking for Alaska

A Common Prayer - Labyrinth/AVEC2

Performed for twelve voices on February 20, 2019 at the Impuls Festival in Graz, Austria.

Performers: Einat Aronstein, Hannah Beutler, Peyee Chen, Johannes Mayer, Rosie Middleton, Anna Molnàr, Sarah Parkin, Elisa Prosperi, Esther-Elisabeth Rispens, Elina Viluma, Jessica Wagner, Pascal Zurek

Sapphic Cycle C (2018) for voices and objects

Performed by Ghost Ensemble June 15, 2019:

Ghost Ensemble is dedicated to new musical perspectives that explore the act of listening. The ensemble’s music creates sonic spaces that shift our attention, perception, or experience of time. Critics have hailed Ghost's debut LP We Who Walk Again (2018, Indexical) as “prodigious … a thrilling listen” (Christian Carey, Sequenza21), “wonderful work … both exhilarating and a bit scary” (Peter Margasak, Bandcamp Daily), “beautifully performed and recorded … a body-felt sound mass … evoking the primeval (Meg Wilhoite), and “cloudy, mysterious, and dark ... Beckettian in its slow spread ... certainly a group to keep an eye on” (Brian Olewnick, Just Outside). This event will feature Margaret Lancaster (flute), Sky Macklay (oboe), Ben Richter (accordion), Chris Nappi (percussion), Lucia Stavros (harp), Carrie Frey (viola), Helen Newby (cello), James Ilgenfritz (contrabass), Shayna Dulberger (contrabass), and Carl Bettendorf (conductor), with special guests James Falzone, Jordan Dykstra, and Carmina Escobar.

Synchronicities (2018) - Apophenia/Wolf performance

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!

Folio 6: Crystal Rain on a Distant Star

Robert Scott Thompson

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