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Repeated by Dreams

by Robert Scott Thompson

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Repeated by Dreams collects five electroacoustic works composed from 2010 to 2014 that are presented here in a kind of concert suite intended for uninterrupted playback. These works share similar types of sonic materials in some cases and also were created using similar techniques leveraging several sophisticated tools for composing including Kyma, Metasynth, Csound, Max/MSP and Supercollider.

The works comprising this recorded suite are best described as acousmatic and feature equally sounds of purely synthetic origin together with sound developed from source audio recordings. A general technique of acousmatic music is to distance somewhat the acoustic sounds from their origins through signal processing and editorial procedures. However, in these works, some of the sounds used remain relatively unprocessed within a context of highly processed materials – creating an interplay where the real and the imaginary coexist and blend.

Flora of Fynbos (2014), originally released as a single and also on the NME Cha #3 CD, was commissioned by NME Cultura Eletroacústica Linda São Paulo, Brazil in 2014. This work is a kind of acousmatic fantasia that draws its inspiration from the Fynbos ecoregion of South Africa, one of the world's six "plant kingdoms." The composition is organized in three contrasting sections and was created using software synthesis techniques. Sound sources, in addition to purely synthetic timbres, include bamboo, ethnic drums and bells, mbira, classical percussion instruments of various types, voices, piano, cello, violin, additive re-synthesis of various acoustic sounds, and also, in the first large section of the work, the sounds of various birds native to the region.

Porcelain Sky (2014) was composed for the Relaxed Machinery label for publication on the compilation disc reBoot and was recorded during the sessions for the 2014 ambient recording Arcana. In some respects this work blends my approaches to ambient music with more robust computer music techniques. Complex resonant drone textures are prominently featured in Novum Organum: Progressive Stages of Certainty (2013). This work was composed using the Csound acoustic compiler and takes its title from Sir Francis Bacon’s work Novum Organum Scientiarum.

Outward to Infinitude (2010) is also reflective of my work in ambient music and is provides a moment of repose and reflection within the evolving complex textures of this recording. The title refers to the vast distances of space between the galaxies filled with the mysterious dark matter. The closing work, Repeated by Dreams (2014) utilizes spectral techniques to develop the sound materials and features percussive sounds of various types in combination with melodic and harmonic materials created from the analysis and re-synthesis of the sounds of the alto saxophone.

Audio updated: July 7, 2018

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released September 20, 2014

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Robert Scott Thompson Atlanta, Georgia

The term musical alchemist best describes modern music composer Robert Scott Thompson. Combining his mastery of the electroacoustic, contemporary instrumental, and avant-garde genres into a swirling cohesive whole, he is an important pioneer on music's new frontier.

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