Thomas Gorbach – Composition


What Yin and Yang Yield.


Sound Space
The shadows of sounds weave moments of elasticity.
A gesture – fleeting : fragile – remains.
Time forms where sound transforms.
Fragments in the before : the after; pause, motion, trace.
A breath in-between : before : after.
Space is memory : time a flow.

Modulated Resonances 2021/22

  • Excerpt: 0:00 – 2:22
  • Compositional method | Touch with modulated reverberation


Dual Nature
A paradox of presence : the object in hearing : folded experiential time.
The past flickers at the edges of perception : drawing near : slipping away.
“The rearview mirror shows the way ahead.”
Frequency glimmers write inner time : a tempo paradox of pulsation : shifting : overlapping.

Shots & Curls | 2018/19

  • Excerpt: 6:50 – 8:28
  • Compositional method | Timecuts


On the Horizon
In the flow of gestures and morphologies : holding : releasing : within reach …
In resistance, they yield to their form, their structure : what will?
Fleeting harmonies : a sense of new transformations.

Viola Sylvestris | 2015

  • Excerpt: 8:18 – 10:02
  • Compositional method | Layered spaces

Into the Unknown
Sounds, the material – in the act of recording, it comes to me, falls into place. Cast into forms – and shattered. An untrodden path – there are no predetermined breaking points here. Everything transforms. Sound facets flash, challenge – overwhelm, drive forward. The creation: relentless, a circling, a hesitation, a cut, a leap. Explosion and implosion.
A montage of gestures, layering of textures, transformation of spaces. Soundscapes emerge, disintegrate, remain unknown – in newly explored worlds. The studio: a place of becoming, of spaces within sound. Nuances that reveal themselves. The Acousmonium: stage, mirror, canvas of sound traces. A gesture that fades away.

Inside Out in Lines & Curves | 2017

  • Excerpt: 10:22 – 12:30
  • Compositional method | Carved Timbre


Imagine that…
… a sound awakens from the other, shaping what remains.
… the rotation dives into the granular, breaking circles, sparks in layers of motion.
… the attack pushes the reverberation, a brief equilibrium of time.
… an implosion, compressed energy swallowed, an empty echo…
… a sound misses the space, a shape unheard, yet seen.

Flashrust | 2019

  • Excerpt: 05:28 – 09:32
  • Compositional method | Nested Trajectories