Walter Thompson (composer)
Walter Thompson is a composer, pianist, saxophonist, percussionist, and educator. He created the multidisciplinary live composing sign language, Soundpainting.
In 2001 Thompson won a Sebastià Gasch FAD Award for Soundpainting.Collaborative work
Thompson has composed Soundpaintings with many contemporary orchestras in many cities around the world, including Barcelona, Paris, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Boston, Oslo, Berlin, Bergen, Lucerne, Copenhagen, and Reykjavik, among others, and has taught Soundpainting at the Conservatoire de Paris; Eastman School of Music; Iceland Academy of the Arts; University of Michigan; Grieg Academy in Bergen, Norway; University of Iowa; Oberlin College Conservatory of Music; and New York University, among many others.Selected recordings
- SP4tet – Dane Recordings.
- New York Soundpainting Orchestra – with Soundpainter's Walter Thompson and Evan Mazunik – Dane Recordings.
- Six Soundpainting Compositions with Anthony Braxton, Walter Thompson and the Walter Thompson Orchestra.
- Walter Thompson/Olle Karlsson Duo – Dane Recordings.
- PEXO 111004 DVD.
- PEXO -A Soundpainting Symphony.
- Steve Rust Soundpainting Sextet – Walter Thompson Soundpainter – Dane Recordings.
- Side Show Time – Walter Thompson Soundpainter – Dane Recordings.
- Deconstructing Haydn – Walter Thompson Soundpainter, Gil Selinger soloist.
- Code of The West-with Joe Gallant.
- The Colonel.
- Not for Rollo.
- Various-John Zorn's Cobra.
- 520 OUT.
- Symphony of the Universe-with Wendy Mae Chambers.
- Stardate.
- ARC.
- Four Compositions with Walter Thompson and Anthony Braxton.
Selected publications
- Soundpainting Workbook 1 – The Art of Live Composing for Musicians.
- Soundpainting Workbook 2 - The Art of Live Composing for Musicians.
- Soundpainting Workbook 3 – The Art of Live Composing for Actors and Dancers.
- Colors for Chorus – Boosey and Hawkes.
- Introduction to Soundpainting – Eufonia Núm.047.
