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My name is Phil Thompson. I am an electronic musician unlike most others. I do not compose my own music. Instead I write computer software that composes music itself, using the fractal formulae of Chaos Theory, the mathematics of Nature.

Every note of my music is derived directly from mathematics unless otherwise noted. Every pitch, every duration, all performance expression, all fractal. I do not regard myself as a musician, or a composer, but merely a arranger and producer working with Mother Nature herself. In fact I do not truly regard myself as a musician at all, the word I use is Musimatician - one who makes music from mathematics.

Recently a couple of people have asked me how my music can all be generated from mathematics if there are guitar solos in some pieces, and so on. Surely performing it means it's not fractal? The guitar solos are all synthesised. Every instrument I use is synthesised. There is no human performance on my tracks, other than occasional dance drum loops on tracks like Chimera.

This profile is really me - it isn't run by a record company minion. I am an independent artist - I've been offered major record deals in the past but turned them down because I didn't like the small print.

Some people get it, some don't. Either way, thank you for listening.

Phil x

P.S. If you are a religious evangelist, racist, sexist, prejudiced against the disabled and/or a homophobe, please move along. I am pro-equality for everyone. I am also anti-hunting and animal cruelty, anti-Monarchy, and in favour of secular meritocracy.

P.P.S. My Skype™ ID is moontoad

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Note: I approve all friend requests, how could I not? but I will delete and block all scammers posting "ringtone" type spam in comments.

You can buy legal downloads of my music in high quality MP3 format at...


...but have patience with me as I have not currently uploaded all of my back catalogue. More tracks will appear daily. I also intend to use this service to release material that has never been released before in exclusively Download-only format.

Or alternatively, the best of my back catalogue of music may be purchased on two CDs by clicking on the album covers below...

BEST ALBUM OF 1998 - I'll be honest I love this album. It is played daily and yet I can't quite put in to words just how it effects me. From the first bell sounds, the first expansive chords, the first melody, I have been pulled in to an incredible world of beauty and drama. Like a fractal image, the deeper you go the more is revealed. The music evolves yet the initial elements remain. Instead of melodies there are phrases that criss-cross each other - binding, breaking, merging, creating. Subtle changes mean that just as you click on a musical line it metamorphoses to something different, even the shifting timbre of a sound or duration of a note becomes important. Composed completely on synthesisers this could have been just another good electronic music album. But Phil broadens the spectrum by also using very realistic acoustic guitar, harp, percussion and choral sounds, bringing them in to great effect with the fractal producing the feel and expression of the playing. Many of the tracks, like Shadows Fall and Strange Attractors have a calming effect. Mesmerising, not because they are pretty or sugar sweet but because they feel familiar yet always new. They also affect you physically. Listening with my eyes closed I can get a distinct feeling of floating and slowly spinning that, first time round, is quite unnerving. But there is also drama and passion here. In the mammoth A Season in Hell great armies trample the landscape. Dark jungles of menace close in. Giants shadows hide the sun. Tympani and orchestral stabs joined by whistles and cymbals fight it out. Glockenspiel and harp call out in argument. Battle lines are drawn. The calm before the fight. The clashing of steel and bodies in hand to hand combat. The bleak aftermath of a bloodied field. Highly charged listening which can wear this listener out! Fractal based music has a certain notoriety for being high brow; nothing more than un-listenable academic exercises. Not this time. Phil has realised something quite extraordinary - an accessible, magical mix of music and mathematics.

Neil Leacy, Wind & Wire Magazine, March 1999.
Reproduced with Permission.

I am currently working on Green Cathedral, an entirely new album of Fractal Electronica, to be released on Hallowe'en 2008, the tenth anniversary of my debut album Organised Chaos.

I am also re-recording the best of my back catalogue in 5.1 Dolby Surround Sound format for release later this year as a CD-ROM only album.