Shadow Gazing is one of the most important recordings of
computer musician
Robert Scott Thompson.
This recording presents several of his finest works in the state-of-the-art
genre of software synthesis computer music. Among them RuST, his
signature piece of 1994, has been the recepient of several international
awards.
The works contained
on this disc have been broadcast world wide and many have been presented
in concert settings. This is computer music at its finest, avant-garde usages
of sound and musical time-space, innovation in timbre development and
the use of compositional algorithms are featured. Throughout the composer
never compromises the importance of the musical expression
to the technology. This
is a fine example of beautiful and evocative music created with state-of-the-art
technologies.