Sidereal. (Continuous...)

Robert Scott Thompson | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 1, 2007)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Aucourant Records
• ASIN: B0019SKMGE
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,635,434 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Breathing Space

2. Infinitude

3. Vertex

4. Transit Shift

5. Star Gazing

6. Edge of Silvered Moon

7. Sidereal

8. Vox Novus

9. Flux

10. Adritf

11. Conjunction of Opposites

12. Pax

Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Stunning, mesmerizing.., June 2, 2008

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Ulf Claesson "Ulf Claesson" (Sweden) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sidereal. (Discrete...) (Audio CD)

Once again (hm, where did I write that before?) Robert Scott Thompson offers us a stunning composition, this time suggested by the sounds emanating from the universe, bizarre sounds human ears cannot hear. RST offers an approximation, not bizarre but of mesmerizing exploration. A work for deep listening. Thus music will DO things with your soul..

5.0 out of 5 stars AN ALBUM INSPIRED BY 'COSMOLOGICAL SOUNDS', May 10, 2010

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Steven H. Propp (Sacramento, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sidereal. (Discrete...) (Audio CD)

Robert Scott Thompson (RST) states in the liner notes, "in this work, I have attempted to fashion a long-form ambient recording which takes its cue from the cosmological sounds which surround us." However, this is not typical "spacemusic" (i.e., the stuff you might hear played at a planetarium).

The album contains 15 tracks (3 of which are 'bonus tracks') of pure ambient music. It often has a background drone (which, according to the liner notes, 'is positioned somewhere between cosmic radio static and pitched harmonic resonance'), along with resonant, echoing sounds (such as a single piano note repeated, and fading out), then ethereal piano, and even long periods of relative quiet.

Fans of RST's work, as well as ambient music in general, will love this 2007 work.