to our ears this sounds like a chillingly protracted x-ray of hollywood taken by an industrial machine. great.

very nicely done, great craftsmanship and creative thinking

obscure.clarify (2020) - EA version

Performed at the Kalv Festival, Kalv, Sweden, August 12, 2021 by Ensemble Mosaik

Event Horizon (2021), for clarinet, viola, cello, piano, and percussion

(x)enharmonic (2021) - EA

BURNING THE GROUND

HOLLYWOOD AND HIGHLAND

C-Bot 4T

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

Performed November 8, 2019 at the Crossroads - International Contemporary Music Festival by Ensemble for New Music Tallinn.

Conductor - Arash Yazdani
Flute - Maria Elonen
Clarinet - Helena Tuuling
Violin - Nina Kawaguchi
Viola - Talvi Nurgamaa
Cello - Teemu Mastovaara

Grātia (2019), for flute, clarinet, violin, viola, and cello

(Sharbaugh)
Michael Ash Sharbaugh: vocals and all instruments
Composed and Recorded ca. 1992.
Transferred and Remixed April 11, 2013.
sm16[vox] [CB Off-the-Hook mix] [24WAV].

no wedding bells sounded
as you storm into the room now
staining memory

hate floats in the air
biting at my defenses
gaining intensity

i need another fix of you
but i've been clean for weeks now
it's all or nothing a friend has said to me
gotta get you out of my system

come take me into your veins
embrace me like an open shore
come i am not afraid
break me like you have before

lover tell me so truly
whisper in my ear now
your hollow honesty
cos some say love is a drug
i say you are the addiction
of loving potency

i need another fix of you
but i've been clean for weeks now
it's all or nothing a friend has said to me
i gotta get you out of my system

come take me into your veins
embrace me like an open shore
come i am not afraid
break me like you have before

come take me into your veins
embrace me like an open shore
come i am not afraid
break me like you have before

come take me into your veins
embrace me like an open shore
come ...

A Fix of You

"A Fix of You" [song sketch ca. 1992]

For the video that accomanies this track, please visit https://youtu.be/JbsXYHjtM_A

Spitfire Audio Contemporary Drama Toolkit - "Crossing The Ice"

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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HOLLYWOOD AND HIGHLAND

Robert Scott Thompson

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