HIGHLIGHTS

70 releases on various music labels like Sony Music, JVC Victor Entertainment, Warner Bros., Koch Universal Music, Solstice Music, Mojodojo Media, Superstition Records etc.

Club Hits and Top 1-10 in international DJ & Radio Playlists.

Live performances around the world since 1995 in music clubs, at (open air) festivals and on TV and radio with up to 1.5 million viewers.

Awarded soundtracks for feature films, documentaries, TV shows, image films, computer games and mega-events with up to 3.5 million attendents.

Sound installations for major art events like the Venice Biennale 2009 (Italy) and the Ars Electronica Festival 1996/2009 (Austria).

Awarded composer: Saturn 2000 Award for best soundtrack by the Austrian Film Industry Association. The New York Festivals Award 1991 (add. music arrangements).

THOMAS NORDWEST

Where does music have it's place? is it more important to follow one string to achieve full knowledge of all music there is? Or is it better to let all kinds of different styles form a clew in which you can get lost in diversity?

Is music something objective, which you can talk about when you have learned the right expression, or the right technical know-how to communicate with others creating music, to understand their way of conceptualizing and widen your own opinion? Or is every tone, every sound, a subjective and sole perception? Do you, when saying music is a τέχνη (technè), meaning some kind of technical skills of being creative, put more weight on the technical skills or the artistic creativity?

To be able to answer these questions, it seems helpful to look at a musician, for whom in conception being is becoming; for whom the only thing that remains constant is changing his own view all the time, who tries to invent himself again and again to find new aspects, perspective and positions, no one has taken before.
Therefore he's got to have a positive thinking towards the future, he needs to be optimistic in a way, that only musicians can be, because everyone who tries to express himself in music thinks that new sounds are creatable and that he expresses things that have never been expressed in that way before.

Often at a certain point things where declared dead - a genre, a music scene, a cultural phenomenon - but it turned out afterwards, that there was no reason to be concerned; pop music is not the end of real ambition and alternative ways, the possibility of easier music production with computers is not the end of virtuosity on analogue instruments, and purchasing mp3 songs on the internet is not the end of music distribution at all.

Scepticism makes place for the critical view - and here "critical" is used as an expression for the rising of the innovative and new out of the ordinary. Seeing problems and hiding away from them doesn't lead anywhere; recognizing what is contemporary and re-designating it, seeing new perspectives in it, this is what criticism really stands for here. To achieve that you need an artist, who is creative and flexible enough to know what to do against the boredom of the well-known, who know the difference between problem and possibility.

When an artist thinks that he should do something, has to create something, than he got to have just one quality: he has got to live at the moment and see what's going on around him. A great musician makes that one will notice some kind of personal difference between before and after listening to a piece. As Thomas Nordwest does with his many of his compositions, that can be found on CDs, records, on the internet and downloaded for free on his web site.

Just as the vibrancy in the air affects the flame of the candle, music affects all material of the world we are living in, as well as it’s breathing inhabitants; music affects everything as a formless motion and wipes away great confusion and irritations with a little notion.

It is not sufficient to reduce a musician like Thomas to just one aspect of his work. Thomas was born 1969 in Linz, Austria. But he lived an worked in the USA too, and is best known for his long-term appearance as "Sonic Fusion", on music festivals and club events, and his performances in concerts and on TV in front of a millions of people, but, looking on his whole œuvre, you recognize, that he has not been concentrating on this only; more interesting things were worked out:

Sound installations for exhibitions, like the Biennale in Venice, the Museum Of Fine Arts in Vienna, Ars Electronica Festivals, gallery exhibitions, productions for animation shows and awarded feature films. Also he composed for theater productions, for successful computer games and interdisciplinary art projects like "Symbiose", where paintings became acoustic landscapes.

His music productions on various labels like Sony Music, Warner Bros., JVC Victor Entertainment and others count up to 70 releases by now, which contain many Top 1-10 positions, what makes him an all-rounder in the media-culture-scene.

It is save to say that if you would see just one aspect of all he's every did, you thin out the whole package, the personal motivation of trying to build up something against being thinned out to just one boring type of self-expression routine.

"The Transhuman Experience"; a musical meltdown of various styles with which he tries to impress all senses, even the one, which is besides the known five ones the most quiet and undervalued today; the soul.

"Music is like water. to remain its impulsive agility, it needs to flow", said Thomas in an interview. It seems to me, he himself is the river bed that manages to change the direction of what floats through it, again and again, creating places where those, who want to jump into his sound can join a great adventure and wash away the dust of the ordinary, helping dry land to become fertile on the other hand.

With his kind of producing music he is able to satisfy the objective market of composition as well as the subjective and solipsistic perception of the individual consumer of fine-quality sounds.

Thomas Nordwest shows what is to be shown; not as what it appears, but as what it can appear; destructs the old and invents something new out of the fragments; knows where he is coming from, but still finds himself at new and unseen places again and again; is above, in front and inside the things he experiences and puts them in shape for the whole world to have for itself.

FILM SOUNDTRACKS

Stardust
Short feature documentary (Austria)
Director: Erich Pröll
Production: Pröllfilm, Ars Electronica Center
Music & sound design: Thomas Nordwest
Concept, narrator: Dr. Dietmar Hager
Astronomical images: Tao Observatory

Heineken Greenroom : The Chemical Brothers / Green U4, London Style / Green Passage, Amsterdam Style / Green Remembar
Short documentaries and spots for MTV Germany
Sponsored by Heineken Music
Production: Future Media
Music: The Chemical Brothers
Sound design: Thomas Nordwest

Dog Days / Hundstage
Awarded feature film (Austria)
Director: Ulrich Seidl
Production: Allegro Film
Actors: Alfred Mrva, Maria Hofstätter, Georg Friedrich, Christine Jirku, Viktor Hennemann, Claudia Martini, Viktor Rathbone
Music: VA incl. Sonic Fusion (Thomas Nordwest)

Synergy - Visions Of Vibe
Awarded feature documentary (USA)
Director: Valerian Bennett
Producers: Lee Supercinski, Michael W. Abbott
Production: Liturgy Productions
Actors: Jason Bentley, Carl Cox, Daniel, Jonathon Moore, Sven Väth
Music: VA incl. Sonic Fusion (Thomas Nordwest)

Bonk
Animated TV show (USA)
Director: Bill Fleming
Production: Komodo Kids
Music & sound design: Thomas Nordwest

Karl V
Museum Of Fine Arts In Vienna
TV clip (Austria)
Production: Monte Video Film
Music & sound design: Thomas Nordwest
Official web site

Foundry Vision
Saturn 2000 Award for best soundtrack by the Austrian Film Industry Association.
TV short film (Austria)
Production: TEW Film Productions
Director: Tom Weber
Music & sound design: Thomas Nordwest

Dragon's Universe
Animated feature film for AMC Entertainment (Austria)
Production: Camf Productions
A Loews Cineplex production
Music & sound design: Thomas Nordwest
Official web site

Blow & Order feat. Sonic Fusion - live @ Muthaland 99
Music video on CD/DVD, Austria 1999
Production: C.B.S. Cinematic Art
Release: ATS Records
Music: Werner Puntigam, Sonic Fusion (Thomas Nordwest)

Sonic Fusion "The Star Wars Remixes"
Official Star Wars dance remixes.
Music video (Austria)
Production: Future Media
Original production: Lucas Arts / Star Wars
Licensed by Warner Bros.
Remixes: Sonic Fusion (Thomas Nordwest). Originals: John Williams

Blow & Order feat. Sonic Fusion "Pump Fun"
Music video (Austria)
Production: C.B.S. Cinematic Art
Music: Werner Puntigam, Sonic Fusion (Thomas Nordwest)

Nach der Klarheit kommt die Kälte
Stage play ( Austria)
Production: Die Tanzenden
Sound design: Thomas Nordwest

Cyberlight Video Vol. 1
Animated 60min music video (Austria)
3D animation: 4 Your Eye
Music: Sonic Fusion (Thomas Nordwest)

Garden Of Love
Awarded animated short film (Turkey)
Director: Onur Yeldan
Music & sound design: Thomas Nordwest

Aero Films
TV signation, Austria
Prodcution: Aero Films
Director: Tom Weber
Music & sound design: Thomas Nordwest

Night Shift
Awarded animated short film (Poland)
Director: Maciek Jackiewicz
Music & sound design: Thomas Nordwest

Callsign Dragon 1
TV short film, Austria
Production: TEW Film Productions
Director: Tom Weber
Music: Thomas Nordwest

Paths of Water
TV short film (Austria)
Director: Conny Lustig
Music & sound design: Thomas Nordwest

Schönbrunn Palace
TV documentary (Austria)
Production: Medeum Film Productions
Director: Ron Morisson
Remix "The Blue Danube Waltz": Thomas Nordwest. Original: Johann Strauss

Demons (Dämonen)
Successful stage play (Austria)
Production: Linzer Kellertheater
Playwright: Lars Norén
Director: Manfred S. Macori
Music: Thomas Nordwest.
Add. music arrangements: Stefan M. Doesinger

Rapid Eye
TV short film (Austria)
Director: Conny Lustig
Music & sound design: Thomas Nordwest

GAME SOUNDTRACKS

Elvis
Worlwide only official Elvis computer game licensed by Elvis Presley Entertainment.
Production: Westka Unlimited (Germany)
Licensed by Elvis Presley Entertainment
Music & lyrics: Thomas Nordwest
Vocals: Michael Tyronne

Silverball
Entertainment terminal (Austria)
Production: TAB Austria
Music for the game signation: Thomas Nordwest

MUSIC & SOUND DESIGN FOR EVENTS

Designjungle
Design exhibition
Production: Designforum Linz
Designers: Andreas Thaler, Helmuth Gsöllpointner, Erich Gaffal & Stefan Bartel, Marek Gut, Thomas Feichtner, Rainer Atzlinger, Christian Kreiner & Stefan Oberhuemer, Andreas Wuppinger, Stefan Degn, Robert Weis, Isabella Haas, Stefan Brandtmayr, Christoph March, Gerd Rosenauer a.o.
3D sound installation: Thomas Nordwest

Star Night / Sternennacht
Opening event of the Ars Electronica Festival 2009 in Linz, Austria
Music & live concert: Thomas Nordwest
Feat. live: Ali Andress (vocals, digeridoo, percussions), Louis Nostitz (vocals)
Official web site

Deep Universe
Animated 3D Slideshow (Austria)
Director, concept: Dr. Dietmar Hager
Production: Ars Electronica Center
Music & sound design: Thomas Nordwest

International Gymnastics Festival in Frankfurt
Mega event in Frankfurt, Germany 2009. 3.5 mio visitors in 7 days. TV broadcasting to 14 countries. Media call this event "Germany's event of the century".
Production: Future Media GmbH
Agency: McCann Erickson
Music director: Thomas Nordwest
Music: various artists incl. Hans Zimmer, Vangelis, David Arnold, Steve Jablonsky, Isao Tomita, William Orbit, David Arkenstone, Thomas Nordwest
Official web site

From Threshold To Treshold (Von Schwelle zu Schwelle)
Venice Biennale 2009
Thomas Redl: room installation with film
At the Palazzo Zanardi in Venice, Italy
Camera: Gerald Kofler, Sound: Thomas Nordwest, technical support: Herbert Wulz
Offical web site

Nemesis - Future Of Evolution
Ars Electronica Festival 1996 (Austria)
3D sound design for an interactive cyberspace installation.
Official web site

Investment in the Future
Sound installation for a large multi-media show at the Technical Museum of Vienna (Technisches Museum Wien). Presented in 4-channel Real Surround.
Film production: Future Media GmbH (Austria)

Electro-Fetish / Pure Energy - Living in the System
Sound installation for an exhibition of Ron Morisson at the Artpark gallery of contemporary fine arts.
Artpark Gallery (Austria)

Media Ice World
Sound installation for a large multi-media show in three major cities in Austria. Presented in 4-channel Real Surround.
Film production: Future Media GmbH

Global Communications
Sound installation for high-tech installation objects at the Ifabo 98 in Vienna, Austria. Presented with seven individual audio channels.

Radio Sinuswelle
Musical Director of the radio show. Signation spots & music.

COMMERCIAL MUSIC

Mercedes Benz
Heineken Music
Magna
Böhler-Uddeholm
Siemens VAI Metals
VA MCE
Zurich Financial Services
AMC Entertainment
Bacardi
T-Mobile
Pro 7 TV
ORF TV
Museum Of Fine Arts Vienna
Stock Spirits Group
WFL Millturn Technologies
Upper Austrian Tourist Board
TAB
Bank Austria
Liwest Media
... and many more

AUDIO RECORDINGS

Digitalpulse "River Rock" -
Digital EP
Composer: Digitalpulse
Remix: Thomas Nordwest
Label: Mojodojo Media

Werner Puntigam's Mambas "Forca!"
EP CD
Composer: Werner Puntigam
Label: ATS Records

Sonic Fusion "Remasters 2009"
Remixed club hits and top 1-10 DJ & radio playlist hits.
Digital EP
Composer: Sonic Fusion (Thomas Nordwest)
Label: Nordwest Music

Shakumasu "Retreat Session 2"
CD Album
Composer: Shakumasu (Thomas Nordwest)
Label: Nordwest Music

Shakumasu "Perfect Relaxation"
CD Album
Composer: Shakumasu (Thomas Nordwest)
Label: Nordwest Music

Kids Christmas Klang!
CD Album
Traditional music
Remix: Thomas Nordwest
Label: Komodo Kids

Classic - Remix
Compilation CD
Various Artists
Label: Hadshot Haheizar
Incl. Sonic Fusion (Thomas Nordwest) "A Proper Cup O´ Coffee"

Shakumasu "Retreat Session 1"
CD Album
Composer: Shakumasu (Thomas Nordwest)
Label: Nordwest Music

Chiller Waves
Compilation CD
Various Artists
Label: AP Records
Incl. Sonic Fusion (Thomas Nordwest) "Heatbeats"

Zoom 2002
Compilation CD
Various Artists
Label: Happy People Music
Incl. Sonic Fusion (Thomas Nordwest) "The Abyss"

Sonic Fusion "Discovery"
CD Album, Record Album
Composer: Sonic Fusion (Thomas Nordwest)
Label: Hadshot Haheizar

Trance Cuts - The Best Of Rave Tracks
Compilation CD
Various Artists
Label: Japanese Victor Entertainment (JVC)

6th Element Open Air
Soundtrack to the awarded awarded feature documentary "Synergy - Vision Of Vibe" (USA)
Compilation CD & Documentary DVD
Various Artists
Label: Raniv Music
Incl. Sonic Fusion (Thomas Nordwest) "Emotions"

Erectional Thoughts
Compilation CD
Various Artists
Label: Bazooka 10
Incl. Impact (Thomas Nordwest) "Tomorrow Never Dies"

Sonic Fusion vs. Impact "The Flash"
12'' EP record
Composer: Sonic Fusion (Thomas Nordwest)
Label: Hadshot Haheizar

Dynamic Features
Compilation CD
Various Artists
Label: Starsound Records
Incl. Sonic Fusion (Thomas Nordwest) "Firedance"

Sonic Fusion "Wild Boyz"
Top 10 in DJ playlists.
7'' record
Music & lyrics: Duran Duran
Remix: Sonic Fusion (Thomas Nordwest)
Label: White Label

Distance To Goa 10
Compilation CD, Distance Records
Incl. Sonic Fusion "Tokyo"

Street Contact "That's My Way"
Maxi CD, LGM 2001
Music, lyrics, production: Thomas Nordwest

Guitars On Mushroom, Vol. 2
Compilation CD, Zoomica Music
Incl. Sonic Fusion vs. Impact "Mortal Combat"

Die Aprè Ski Show
Compilation CD, Warner Music
Incl. Micky & die Bikerbuben "Scheiss egal", remix: Thomas Nordwest

Electronic High
Radio airplay in Japan
Compilation CD, Solstice Music
Incl. Sonic Fusion "Tokyo"

Psychedelic Experience, Vol. 2
Compilation CD, Chakra Records
Incl. Sonic Fusion (Thomas Nordwest) "Tribal Warrior", remix: Deedrah

Baller Knaller
Compilation CD, Koch Universal Music
Incl. Ballerberg (Thomas Nordwest) "Jodelmania"

Blow & Order feat. Sonic Fusion "Dive 'n Rave"
Radio airplay in Austria
Album CD, ATS Records
Music: Werner Puntigam, Sonic Fusion (Thomas Nordwest)

Goa-Head 8
Compilation CD, Leguan Records
Incl. Sonic Fusion (Thomas Nordwest) "Robots Round My Coc"

TanTrance 8
Compilation CD, Subterranean
Incl. Sonic Fusion (Thomas Nordwest) "Tribal Warrior (Live Recording)"

Heavy Machinery
Compilation CD / 12'' record, Hadshot Haheizar
Incl. Impact (Thomas Nordwest) "Start Control"

Sexy House Girls "Do Me Right"
12'' record, Cheese Records
Music: Thomas Nordwest

Solipse
Official release of the famous Solipse Festival in Ozora, Hungary 1999
Compilation CD, CTM
Incl. Sonic Fusion (Thomas Nordwest) "Xxtatikk Ritual"

BIOT "Saturation Beta"
Album CD, BTM
Incl. Sonic Fusion (Thomas Nordwest) "Oxygen Orgasm", remix

BIOT "The Remixes"
Maxi CD, BTM
Incl. Sonic Fusion (Thomas Nordwest) "Oxygen Orgasm", remix

Sound Without Walls
Compilation CD, Moontribe
Incl. Sonic Fusion "Tribal Warrior"

Sonic Fusion "Tribal Warrior - Remix 99"
12'' record, Hadshot Haheizar
A Original version: Sonic Fusion (Thomas Nordwest)
B Remix: Deedrah

Sonic Fusion "Confused"
Top 1-10 in international: radio playlists and DJ charts.
Album CD / 12'' record, Hadshot Haheizar
Music: Thomas Nordwest

Sonic Fusion "Kraftwerk"
12'' record, Hadshot Haheizar
Music: Thomas Nordwest

Tempel Club
Compilation CD, SGC 1999
Incl. Thomas Nordwest "Welcome To The Temple"

Hovek Olam
Compilation CD, Hovek Olam 1998
Incl. Sonic Fusion (Thomas Nordwest) "Tribal Warrior"

Planet Houze "Erotic House"
Album CD, Nordwest Music
Music: Thomas Nordwest

Psychedelic Krembo, Selected Tunes 3
Compilation CD, Krembo Records
Incl. Sonic Fusion "A Proper Cup O´ Coffee" (5:49),remix. Original: The Siamese Twins

Hardesertrance 2
Compilation CD, Moonshine Music
Incl. Sonic Fusion (Thomas Nordwest) "Tribal Warrior"

Sonic Fusion "Predator"
Top 10 in international: radio playlists and DJ charts.
12'' record, Hadshot Haheizar

Ecliptic
Compilation CD by DJ Tsuyoshi, Matsuri Productions
Incl. Sonic Fusion (Thomas Nordwest) "Tribal Warrior"
DJ Tsuyoshi

Sambado "Sambado"
10,000 sold units in Austria in 7 days.
Maxi CD, Sambado
Music, lyrics: Thomas Nordwest

Blow & Order feat. Sonic Fusion "Blow & Order"
Radio airplay in Austria.
Album CD, XXX Records
Music: Werner Puntigam, Sonic Fusion (Thomas Nordwest)

Sonic Fusion "A Proper Cup O´ Coffee"
Top 1-10 in international: radio playlists and DJ charts.
12'' record, Hadshot Haheizar
Incl. remix (Thomas Nordwest), original: The Siamese Twins

Gazometertraxxx - The Doom, XXX7
Compilation CD, XXX Records
Incl. DJ Eric Fischer & Dr. Sinclair "Funky Vibrations"
Producer: DJ Eric Fischer, Dr. Sinclair, composer: Sonic Fusion (Thomas Nordwest)

Marcos Lopez "The Moon & The Sun, part 3"
CD album, Superstition Records
Incl. Sonic Fusion (Thomas Nordwest) "Apatia", remix. Orignal: Chris Zippel, Marcos Lopez

Anthology 2 Digitale
Compilation CD, Question Mark ?ecords
iIncl. Sonic Fusion (Thomas Nordwest) "Tribal Warrior", remix: Deedrah

Bel Club
Compilation CD, Sony Music
# DJ Eric Fischer & Dr. Sinclair "Funky Vibrations"
Producer: DJ Eric Fischer, Dr. Sinclair, composer: Sonic Fusion

Wipe Out "The Remixes"
12'' record, CCP Records
Incl. Sonic Fusion (Thomas Nordwest) "She Will Leave Me", "Diluted", remix

Sonic Fusion "Tribal Warrior"
Top 1-10 in international: radio playlists and DJ charts.
12'' record, Hadshot Haheizar

Sonic Fusion & Syquest "Fears"
CD album, Nordwest Music
Music: Sonic Fusion (Thomas Nordwest), Syquest (Thomas Bibl)

Sonic Fusion & Syquest "Symbiose"
CD album, Nordwest Music
Music: Sonic Fusion (Thomas Nordwest), Syquest (Thomas Bibl)

Klaus Pruenster "Ich liebe dich dafür"
Radio airplay in Austria
Maxi CD, GIG Records
Music, lyrics, producer: Klaus Pruenster
Remix of 2,3: Thomas Nordwest

Klaus Pruenster "Tiefenrausch"
Radio Airplay in Austria
Album CD, GIG Records
Music, lyrics, produer: Klaus Pruenster, except 8: Klaus Pruenster, Thomas Nordwest
Add. music arrangements: Thomas Nordwest , Gerald Landschützer

Double Desire "Be My Baby"
Radio airplay in Austria
Maxi CD, BOEA Records
Music, lyrics: P. Spector, E. Greenwich, J. Barry
Producer of track 1,2,3: Thomas Nordwest
Music, lyrics of track 4: David Pleasure
Production of track 4: Pico, Landschützer, Double Desire

Klaus Pruenster feat. Danny B. Sunday "Es fängt immer ganz harmlos an"
7'' record, GIG Records
Music, lyrics, producer: Klaus Pruenster
Add. music arrangements: Thomas Nordwest

Peppino & Michael D. "Ah yeah! Dein ist mein ganzes Herz"
7'' record, BOEA Records
The New York Festivals Award 1991, radio airplay in Austria. Live presentation on ORF TV (Austria) for 1.5 million viewers.
Music, lyrics: Lehar, Herzer, Löhner, Pico, Gitano
Production: Pico & Gitano
# Additional arrangements: Thomas Nordwest

Double Desire "Linz is Live"
7'' record, BOEA Records
Music (side a): Opus, lyrics: E. Pfleger, production: Klaus Pruenster
Music, lyrics (side b): John Forde, production: Klaus Pruenster, Double Desire
# Add. arrangements: Thomas Nordwest

Pico & Gitano "For the Very Best Moments"
Album CD, BOEA Records
Music, lyrics, production: Pico & Gitano
Except * music, lyrics: Lehar, Herzer, Loehner, Pico, Gitano
Except ** music, lyrics: Opus, lyrics: E. Pfleger
Add. arrangements: Thomas Nordwest, Gerald Landschützer