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Nathan Riki Thomson is a double bass player, multi-instrumentalist, composer, researcher, and educator with a core focus on intercultural dialogue and collaboration with different peoples, sonic environments, and places. Nathan is currently professor and head of Global Music studies at Sibelius Academy, University of the Arts Helsinki.
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Nathan Riki Thomson is a double bass player, multi-instrumentalist, composer, researcher, and educator. He is currently professor of Global Music and Community Engagement, and head of the Global Music Department at Sibelius Academy, University of the Arts Helsinki.
Through the interwoven threads of performing, composing, researching, and teaching, Nathan's work is focused on intercultural dialogue and collaboration with different peoples, sonic environments, and places. He completed his artistic doctoral studies in 2021, under the title of ’Resonance: (Re)forming an Artistic Identity through Intercultural Dialogue and Collaboration’, which explores key concepts of identity formation, interculturalism, hybridity, third space, and resonance.
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“WORLD MUSIC IN THE MOST POSITIVE SENSE. IF IT MUST BE CATEGORISED, FILE UNDER ‘BEAUTIFUL’ “.
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“Thomson explores the concept of ‘resonance’ both in terms of the physical sound phenomenon and as a metaphor for inter-cultural dialogue. On both fronts, the album is an astonishing achievement.”
“At times Resonance feels more like an art installation than an album, but that’s partly its strength. Somehow, amid what should be a clutter of musicians and instruments, a gallery- like spaciousness has miraculously been preserved.”