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Robert Scott Thompson Robert Scott Thompson, composer of instrumental and electroacoustic music, studied with F. Richard Moore, Bernard Rands, Roger Reynolds and Joji Yuasa, among others. He creates works in a wide variety of forms, ranging from chamber and orchestral music to works for the virtuoso soloist, computer music and video and performance art. He was a research staff member of the Center for Music Experiment (CME) Computer Audio Research Lab (CARL) during the 1980's, providing expert assistance to composers in the realization of advanced computer music works. In 1991, he was a Fulbright Research Scholar at the Danish Institute of Electroacoustic Music where he composed the long-form computer music work The Strong Eye. Over the past decade, he has become increasingly well known internationally for his instrumental and computer music works and also for his many ambient recordings which have been broadcast worldwide. His music is also published on recordings by Neuma, Drimala, Capstone, Hypnos, Oasis, Groove, Lens, Zero Music and Aucourant record labels. Thompson is currently on the composition faculty at Georgia State University in Atlanta where he has been since 1989.

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