Walter Thompson Orchestra Soundpainting

The Walter Thompson Orchestra (WTO), founded in 1984, explores the interdisciplinary potential of composition through improvisatory works. Musicians, dancers, actors and visual artists improvise material across all media as directed by Thompson using his composing/conducting language of gestured signals. This technique, which has taken 20 years to codify, is called Soundpainting, a composing/conducting language comprising more than 700 gestures. What began as Thompson's novel communication tool between conductor and improviser has turned into a rigorous language through which music, dance, theater or an educational presentation can be created spontaneously.

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Now Available!

Soundpainting: The Art of Live Composition

Workbook 1
with instructional DVD included

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Also available in French!

¡And NOW available in Spanish!

RECENT CD RELEASES:

Soundpainting Haydn
featuring 3 different Soundpaintings of Haydn's
Concerto in C for cello and chamber orchestra,
with Gil Selinger, cello soloist

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For Non-US Orders:

PEXO—A Soundpainting Symphony

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"PEXO is way too provocative and evocative to be swept off the table with last year's favorites."
—Michael Davis, All About Jazz (Full Review)

N E W !

Colors
(A published Soundpainting composition)

Try your hand at Soundpainting with this composition—
Instructions included!

Coming Soon

PEXO
(on DVD)

Performed by The Walter Thompson Orchestra

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