Coming from a family firmly planted in the music world, Nicholas grew up with a classical music training, studying violin and piano before branching out into the world of rock and funk. Then, wanting to explore more contemporary techniques he forged a path for himself as an electronic music producer. His work now focusses on integrating contemporary ensembles and electronics, using live instrumentation and multi-channel sound installations simultaneously to connect audiences and spaces.
Nicholas Robert Thayer is a London-born, Groningen-based composer and producer, working across neo-classical, electronic, and rock music. He is also currently the music director for House of Makers, an Amsterdam based inter-disciplinary performance company. He has composed original scores for ballet and contemporary dance pieces performed by Het Nationale Ballet (Netherlands), Houston Metropolitan Dance Company (US), and Sydney Dance Company (Australia), and has also worked with rock band Motley Crue, producing Tommy Lee’s ‘Cruecifly’ drum solo and doing additional sound design for their ‘All Bad Things…’ tour, and he is also a touring member of electronic punk-rock band The Bloody Beetroots. This broad approach to his art is reflected in all his work, which is characterised by the drawing together of disparate musical ideas: lightness and darkness, harmony and dissonance, noise and silence.
