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Of Natural Magic and the Breathing of Trees

from Of Natural Magic and the Breathing of Trees (Album) by Robert Scott Thompson

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“Natural Magic and the Breathing of Trees” is a composition that has no specific technical agenda, though from a musical point of view there are some focal sound materials and sectional outworking of transformations of these sounds. Rather, the work is a poetic meditation on the increasingly dire realization of a rapidly dwindling natural environment as human activity encroaches upon once virgin lands the world over. The unceasing infiltration of “civilization” removes the original soundscape and erases areas of silence in the natural world. This work is concerned aesthetically with the fact that we are on the tipping-point environmentally and on a global scale. While this is not a soundscape work, this mediation on the concept of soundscape provided inspiration for the materials of the work and their mortising within the form of the composition.

The work is in seven large sections which at several points in the twenty minute duration overlap each other. Each section is characterized by one or more focal sounds such as the bell sound of the opening section, the dry plant materials of the second section and the percussive harp materials of the middle section. The form of the work is not self-referential. There is no leitmotif or ritornello; no arch form structure. Instead, the work is through-composed and takes the listener on a journey of meditative discovery from a point of origin toward an unknown destination.

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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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