The Wind at Beni Midar (2020 Remaster)

by Robert Scott Thompson

supported by

	/

Streaming + Download

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

Purchasable with gift card

$10 USD or more
Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

Color graphics, jewel case.

Includes unlimited streaming of The Wind at Beni Midar (2020 Remaster) via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

ships out within 1 day

$15 USD or more
Subscription

Subscribe now to receive all the new music Robert Scott Thompson creates, including this release and 148 back-catalog releases, delivered instantly to you via the Bandcamp app for iOS and Android. Learn more.

Subscribe Now $10 USD/month or more
Full Digital Discography

193

releases

Get all 193 Robert Scott Thompson releases available on Bandcamp and save 70%.

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Imaginarium, Teardrops and the Holding Pattern (Ambient Mix), Dragging the Sea with Dreams - time and tide, Dragging the Sea With Dreams, Dragging the Sea With Dreams — outlined against afterglow, Circle and Shadow — Volume One, Circle and Shadow — Volume Two, Veneration, and 185 more. , and , .
Excludes subscriber-only releases.

Purchasable with gift card

$342.90 USD or more (70% OFF)

1.	The Wind At Beni Midar (1984) 24:41	info
2.	Essay (2000) 02:13
3.	Tagmeme (2000) 09:22
4.	The Gramophone (1999) 07:15	info
5.	Light Is a Liquid (1999) 12:48

about

Audio updated: April 2020

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.

credits

released June 19, 2000

Craig Hultgren, violoncello

license

about

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.

Read full bio and listen to sounds at:

www.aucourantrecords.com ... more

contact / help

Contact Robert Scott Thompson

Streaming and
Download help

Shipping and returns

Redeem code

Report this album or account

If you like Robert Scott Thompson, you may also like:

2020 | Label Compilation (mixed by ASIP)
by A Strangely Isolated Place

supported by 6 fans who also own “The Wind at Beni Midar (2020 Remaster)”

An excellent selection of ambient tunes. Perfect to throw on before a nap. Jean-Paul DuQuette
go to album
Atmosphere for Dreaming
by Steve Roach

supported by 6 fans who also own “The Wind at Beni Midar (2020 Remaster)”

This is a very beautiful nature-related and calm piece of ambient music. And the cover: I just had to get this and I did! Amazing piece of art by itself. Similarities: music reminds me Robert Rich's Sleep Concerts / album versions and the art reminds me the abstract art by Mary Clanahan. ech0
go to album
Transparent Joys
by Phillip Wilkerson

supported by 5 fans who also own “The Wind at Beni Midar (2020 Remaster)”

The best of pretty ambient. Get everything. Niles Frantz
go to album
Hauntings
by Hauntings

The aptly-named Hauntings write songs that are sinister and moody—the seconds in a horror film right before the jump scare. Bandcamp New & Notable Apr 3, 2023
go to album
Works
by Time Rival

The culmination of a year-long project for Time Rival is this album of warm, buzzy electroacoustic songs equal parts soothing & strange. Bandcamp New & Notable Jan 28, 2023
go to album
Colors Tease
by charaxes

Ambient artist charaxes creates the soundscape of an alien forest, with gentle melodies fading into environmental textures. Bandcamp New & Notable Jan 10, 2023
go to album
Mercy Within
by Hilyard

supported by 5 fans who also own “The Wind at Beni Midar (2020 Remaster)”

Masterpiece. The second song it's perfect. White snow and cold wind in the misty forest. raulmori
go to album