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Organised Chaos
Electronica / Experimental / Electro

The Music of Chaos Theory



Port Talbot, Wales
United Kingdom

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Member Since4/4/2006
Band Websitehttp://omegaville.com
Band Members
Phil Thompson - "Musimatician", aged 40, looks 30, acts 20.
Interests Music
Stever, Anita Kelsey, Lacquer, Mesh, The FIXX, Cy Curnin, Syntax, Covenant, (Lisa) Dalbello, The KidneyThieves, Rupert Hine, Thinkman, Nine Inch Nails, Marilyn Manson, Gary Numan, a-ha, Freur, Ultravox, Visage, Depeche Mode, Sisters of Mercy, Laibach, Front 242, KMFDM, Pet Shop Boys, Propaganda, Claudia Brucken, Cyndi Lauper, Goldfrapp, Duffy, Cicero, Finitribe, Beloved, The Shamen, Toyah, Haysi Fantayzee, Will Powers, Charlie Sexton, Kate Bush, Peter Gabriel, Laurie Anderson, Joni Mitchell, Jackson Browne, Cat Stevens, Lindsey Buckingham, Stevie Nicks, Maria McKee, Julee Cruise, Jean-Michel Jarre, Johannes Schmoelling, Enigma, Johnny Hollow, Jeff Beal, Thomas Newman, Danny Elfman, Alexander Brandon, Jeremy Soule, Greg Bear, Guy Cross/Subvision.
TV
Battlestar Galactica, Farscape, Firefly, Babylon 5, Star Trek Voyager, Roswell, DUNE, The X Files, The 4400, Supernatural, Carnivale, Six Feet Under, CSI, NCIS, The Shield, Law & Order, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Fawlty Towers, Bottom, The Two Ronnies.
Movies
The Nightmare Before Christmas, Blade Runner, Edward Scissorhands, Mirrormask, Brazil, Finding Nemo, Wall-E, Monsters Inc., Toy Story 2, Big Fish, SE7EN, Fight Club, Pan's Labyrinth, The Crow, Amelie, The City of Lost Children, Nightbreed, Hellraiser, 30 Days of Night, The Mist, TRON, The Dark Crystal, The Black Hole, Dragonslayer, Reign of Fire, Lady In The Water, The Others, Inventing the Abbots, Alien, Aliens, Tremors, Slither, Eight-Legged Freaks, Starship Troopers, Predator, Event Horizon, Pitch Black, Chronicles of Riddick, It's All About Love, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Star Trek: Nemesis, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Poltergeist, The Thing, Phantoms, Killer Klowns from Outer Space, The Man With Two Brains, Elvira: Mistress of the Dark, Frankenhooker, Reanimator, The Wizard of Oz, Return to Oz, Harold & Maude, Willard, Batman Returns, Batman Begins, Constantine, The Sin Eater, V for Vendetta, HULK, Hellboy, Elektra, X Men, Unbreakable, A History of Violence, Brokeback Mountain, Running Scared, The Pornographer, Gods & Monsters, Metropolis, The Elephant Man, The Cabinet of Dr.Caligari, Freaks, Bride of Frankenstein, King Kong (original), The Creature from the Black Lagoon, The Day the Earth Stood Still, The House on Haunted Hill, Theatre of Blood, The Abominable Dr.Phibes, Sunset Boulevard, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, Psycho, Les Diaboliques, Logan's Run, Planet of the Apes (original), The Omega Man, The Stepford Wives (original), Rosemary's Baby, The Mothman Prophecies, Dead Ringers.
Videogames
Deus Ex, Fallout 3, Oblivion, BioSHOCK, Morrowind, Thief: Deadly Shadows, TRON 2.0, Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines, STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl, Dead Space, The Suffering, Max Payne II: The Fall of Max Payne, MAFIA, Freedom Force, Freedom Fighters, Dungeon Siege (all), Ratchet & Clank (all), Psychonauts, Destroy All Humans, Rollercoaster Tycoon (all), Startopia, Evil Genius, DRAKAN: The Ancients' Gates, PRIMAL, Lego Star Wars, Lego Indiana Jones, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 1 & 2, Medievil, Maximo: Ghosts to Glory, Maximo vs. Army of Zin, Pac Man, Donkey Kong, Space Invaders, Bubble Bobble, Rainbow Islands, Mr.Do!, Sonic The Hedgehog (all), Pitfall: The Lost Expedition, PREY, Project EDEN, Warhammer 40K Dawn of War (all).
Books
Clive Barker, Philip K.Dick, James Herbert, Dean Koontz, Liz Williams, Edgar Allan Poe, H.P.Lovecraft, Monika Rice, Arthur Jeon, Arthur Rimbaud.
Influences
Honesty. Integrity. Loyalty. Decency. Intelligence. Love. Monogamy. Equality. Self-Awareness. Self-Assurance. Self Respect. Compassion. Understanding. Generosity. Charm. Humour. Creativity. Nonsense. Sarcasm. Canteen of Cutlery. Moulinex Food Processor. Cuddly Toy. Good game, good game, didn't he do well?
Note: I am Republican in the British sense of the word - i.e. anti-Monarchy. NOT in the USA sense of the word, OK?
"Secular schools can never be tolerated because such schools have no religious instruction, and a general moral instruction without a religious foundation is built on air; consequently, all character training and religion must be derived from faith; we need believing people." - Adolf Hitler

" My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. " - Albert Einstein

Sounds Like
Bleep bleep bloop bleep bleep wibble bleep bleep. And that's just the lyrics...
Record LabelMoontoad Studios
Type of LabelIndie


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   About Organised Chaos
About Me

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.

For almost 20 years I have been making music from fractal formulae and methods, every note derived directly from mathematics unless otherwise noted. Every pitch, every duration, all performance expression, all from a fractal source.

I have recently decided to abandon the Fractal Music genre, however, because the likes of Yale University have very different ideas of what this music should be about, and their re-writing of history regarding the subject (in particular ignoring the work of many people active in this genre more than a decade before they showed an interest in it, and claiming their kindergarden level seminars are state of the Art for the genre) has disgusted me. I no longer wish my name to be associated with the Fractal Music genre if the phrase is going to be regarded as being related to their "research" (which the rest of us knew in the early 1990s).

Fractal Music has always been about making music for me, and not about obsessing over the manuscripts of long-dead composers who happened to use techniques such as "motivic scaling" which coincidentally results in music that might be considered "fractal". No shit, Sherlock. Tell me something I haven't known since the mid 1980s.

Frankly, the likes of Harlan Brothers, Michael Frame and even Benoit Mandelbrot can shove their Java Applets, ridiculous patents, meaningless white papers and seminars up their collective arses as far as I care is this is the DISGRACEFUL way "academic experts" expect to be allowed to behave and be regarded with any respect from those who have been nothing but respectful of their work for decades.

Organised Chaos: The Music of Chaos Theory (1992-2008), R.I.P.

In the future I will be making writing more music generation systems, and releasing more electronica created with them. But if any of the music I create is "fractal" it will be purely by coincidence as opposed to design.

In the meantime, this profile will represent my back-catalogue.

Thanks for listening.

Phil x

P.S. This profile is really me - it isn't run by a record company minion. You might have heard me on the radio in the past, or read magazine interviews, or even seen me perform live on stage in London in the late 90s. Please don't think that means I am unapproachable - I do not regard myself as being any kind of celebrity and am here for the same reason as you are - to make friends.

P.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.

ORGANISED CHAOS 1998-2008: A decade of Fractal Music on CD
The best of my back catalogue of music may be purchased on two CDs by clicking on the album covers below...
Organised Chaos: The Music of Chaos Theory

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Originally released 1998, digitally remastered 2005.
Organised Chaos: The Ones That Got Away

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Originally released 1999, digitally remastered 2005.
Legal Downloads

To celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the release of my debut album Organised Chaos I have decided to make my entire back-catalogue of Fractal Music available for free download in MP3 format here.

Quotes

I'm not fond of name dropping but as others in the genre are fond of doing so...

Music composed by Mother Nature herself” - Dr. David Whitehouse, Science Editor, BBC.

"What amazes me with this kind of music is that it sounds much better than you would expect.” - Ian Stewart, Professor of Mathematics, Warwick University, Chaos Theory Guru, author of Does God Play Dice?

Fascinating” - Arthur C.Clarke.

Wonderful” - Uri Geller.

The diamonds of the web-site lie in the Music area.” - Nishi Pakkiy, FineArtForum.org.

Regarding Gingerbread...

Revolutionary!” - C|Net.

Four Star Editor's Pick” - ZDNet.com

The greatest Fractal Music generator ever written.” - Phil Jackson, composer, FractalVibes.com.

Not regarding music at all. (But true.)

My friend fancies your friend.” - Boy George.

Look who just cruised in off the Versace catwalk!” - Su Pollard.

You have to tell me - where did you buy that shirt?” - Madonna.

Organised Chaos: The Music of Chaos Theory - Wind & Wire Magazine Review

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.

Gingerbread: The Mandelbrot Music Generator

Gingerbread

Most of my Fractal Music was generated with Gingerbread, a PC system I wrote and originally released as shareware in 1998.
It is now freeware. If you would like to download it, click on the screenshot above.

Note: Depending upon how you use it, using this system to create music may or may not make music that qualifies as "Fractal Music" according to Yale University's definition. But it will probably result in making music that is a lot better than anything they've yet produced.

An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup. - H. L. Mencken.

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


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Organised Chaos's Friends Comments
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Jul 9 2009 5:18 PM

Thanks so much for the add :)

Take care
Jess
AK_Hevonen





Jul 9 2009 8:19 AM

Hello :)
Islington Crocodiles





Jul 1 2009 10:15 AM

Hi

If you would like to read a sample of one of the stories from ISLINGTON CROCODILES’ you can do that now as one of the stories is posted on the Islington Crocodiles blog page. RAIDERS is the disturbing story of Barwise and Micky.

As Graham Joyce says in his foreword to ISLINGTON CROCODILES, ‘This is the edge.’

You can follow this link direct to the blog page

http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.ListAll&friendId=464298946

Enjoy it, and let us know what you think, leave a comment.

Also, if you are interested in buying a copy of ISLINGTON CROCODILES you can, as before, do that here: http://host2.clickandbuild.com/cnb/shop/ttapress

Thanks for your interest.

All the best….
California Lee..





Jul 1 2009 5:17 AM

just going thru thr friendo list tellin all the pals about my cookies & applejuice remix.check it out..i got that shit!!!!!!!!!!!!!..tell me what u think.
Robert





Jun 30 2009 8:04 PM

Mid-year greetings, Phil! We're having a heatwave in Kansas City, but just celebrated Gay Pride weekend-even hotter!

And thank you for the recent blogs-my parents are still visiting and dear Dad applauds you for your candid words!

Thank you for the splendid birthday greeting-it kept the celebration alive!

Always, Robert x
chuann





Jun 29 2009 8:34 AM

Aloha, thanks a lot for beeing a friend here. Wish you a wounderful week!! www.chuann.jimdo.com
|| - Orchid - ||





Jun 29 2009 6:46 AM

Thanks for add...
Whitetip





Jun 28 2009 1:54 PM

Check out my profile And Let me know Do you like me YES or NO http://www.doulike.us/photos/3073626.html?b=4&w=46
Robert





Jun 13 2009 1:18 PM

Thank you, my Gemini friend! Yes, it was a reflective celebration of life and all the things that still await me. And I quickly choreographed my own little birthday dance!

Many thanks, Robert x
Composer For Media





Jun 12 2009 3:55 PM

I have a NEW SONG, it's punk rock! I've also done some Anime/Video Game Hip Hop Production that's up there too! Drop me a comment! Whats up with you?
Staircase Wit





Jun 9 2009 1:47 PM

Hey there mate!

We have just released our new single: "Kiss Me" and 2 b-sides! 3 new songs up on our myspace page!
We'll be glad if you and all the people who love rock and roll check us out!


All the best


Staircase Wit
AK_Hevonen





Jun 6 2009 4:11 PM

Hi Phil, hope you are having a good weekend :D
mALX





Jun 4 2009 1:44 AM

New Rachet and Clank revealed at E3 yesterday! Thought you'd want to know! (also, Supreme Commander 2, but I'm afraid to mention that one) <333
~.:A:.~





Jun 2 2009 5:54 AM

MORE than a bit concerned for the almost 100% of gdp to service just the debt...tis a slippery slope and INDEED enough!!!
x
p.s. happy r day *_~
Miscellaneous Lady





May 29 2009 4:03 PM



Wishing you a weekend filled with many blessings,
Namaste
STEVER





May 28 2009 9:04 AM

This quote has been with me all week...and especially in those moments where I am looking for clarity;

"Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy." ~Beethoven

I think it's the times I can crank my stereo that make me feel the best.

Hope you are doing well!
Karen
Miscellaneous Lady





May 26 2009 4:35 PM

I hope you had a wonderful weekend & your birthday was awesome for you!

Wishing you an awesome new week!

With love & respect,

Namaste
Lex

Robert





May 26 2009 4:26 PM

Happiest Birthday, my Gemini friend! I've been on vacation during Memorial Day(for the first time in ages), but didn't want to miss the celebration for the world! Cheers to you, Phil!

Robert x
Tracy Dearsan





May 26 2009 3:47 PM

A wonderful birthday wish to you, dear, though, there is an 8-hour time difference, hence, it was very likely yesterday. Hope it was happy!
Tracy in Fresno
My Aural Fixation





May 26 2009 4:24 AM

Happiest of birthdays for you :)
DreamField Productions





May 26 2009 3:17 AM

Happy Birthday Phil!
Many Many More!
Guitarzan6000





May 25 2009 10:35 PM

Hey Phil!!!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!! Hope you have good one!!!!! CHEERS!!!! Mark/guitarzan6000
(Perspicacious)





May 25 2009 10:15 PM

Looks like I got my birthday wishes in just in time! Happy Birthday! I hope you had a great one.

Steve
mALX





May 25 2009 9:56 PM

Happy Birthday Phil! Hope you have a great one! <333 - Cindy
Dave....... ( S.E.R.G.E )





May 25 2009 8:55 PM

Have a Happy Memorial day Friend....D
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