Pendere covers a large range of creative output from the composer Robert Scott Thompson. Not intended to be a “greatest hits” package - the tracks appearing on Pendere represent both new material and old. For anyone new to Thompson’s work this would be a good start - but there is much that would be missed if the listener stopped here. Robert Scott Thompson has been heralded as ‘one of the most overlooked composers in the Ambient genre today.’ 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.