Improbable Pianos marks the release of Robert Scott Thompson’s earliest recorded works. All of these tracks were written during his days as a compositional student at the University of California at San Diego (UCSD) and were recorded exclusively in the digital domain. Now remastered and released for the first time - 20 years after their initial creation. The tracks on Improbable Pianos clearly foreshadow his more experimental computer music work displayed on 1992’s The Strong Eye & 1994’s Shadow Gazing and most recently on the critically acclaimed release - 2001’s Acousma - heralded as ‘An amazing album’ and ‘Thompson’s most important CD.’ Robert Scott Thompson Bio - Robert Scott Thompson is a composer of instrumental and electroacoustic music. He earned a B.Mus. degree from the University of Oregon and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California at San Diego. His primary teachers include Bernard Rands, Roger Reynolds, Joji Yuasa and F. Richard Moore. He creates work in a wide variety of forms ranging from chamber and orchestral music to works for the virtuoso soloist, computer music, video and performance art. He was named the distinguished Honor’s Professor at Georgia State University in 1994 where he is Professor of Music and Division Head for Composition, Technology and Management in the School of Music. His music has been published on more than 30 recordings by EMF Media, Neuma, Drimala, Capstone, Hypnos, Oasis/Mirage, Groove, Lens Records, Space for Music, Zero Music and his own Aucourant Records label.