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The Walter Thompson Orchestra
May 22
10 pm

The Bowery Poetry Club

308 Bowery
212-614-0505
bowerypoetry.com
wtosp.org

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The Walter Thompson Orchestra
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.

There is no end to the variations and combinations possible.




 



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