The Walter Thompson Orchestra, 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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Photo: Linda Blacken



~ SOUNDPAINTING PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE ~

Walter Thompson Soundpainting
 with
NASA Orchestra
5 October 2007

16h-20h
Bordeaux, France

For information, contact Walter Thompson.

Soundpainting Workshop

 11 October 2007
Musikhochschule
Lucerne, Switzerland

For information, contact Walter Thompson.

Soundpainting Live on Radio France
with
Le SPOUMJ
 (Soundpainting Orchestra de l’Union des Musiciens de Jazz)
27 October 2007
17H30
featuring

Walter Thompson, François Jeanneau, and Christophe Cangoleri
Tune in to
Radio France

For information, contact Walter Thompson.

Walter Thompson and Evan Mazunik
An Evening of Soundpainting

 Friday, November 23, 2007
8:00 PM
The Stone
 Located on the corner of
Avenue C and 2nd Street
New York, NY

For information, contact Walter Thompson.

Now Available!

Soundpainting Workbook 1
with instructional DVD included

Click here for details.

Also available in French!


Our Latest Release

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

Click here for details.

Coming Soon
PEXO
 (on DVD)

Performed by The Walter Thompson Orchestra

For information, contact Walter Thompson.



RECENT CD RELEASES:



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)





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