"Hectoring Commentaries" For Solo Viola

"Hectoring Commentaries"

For Solo Viola

Premier Recording by Renee Baker, Esteemed Member of the AACM

"It Behaves Like an Element in a Geometrical Equation" . The Recording

"It Behaves Like an Element in a Geometrical Equation" 

 - Bil Smith Composer

For Two Pianos, One Prepared Piano (Plot "A"), One Prepared Piano (Plot "C"), Bass Celeste, Modified Glockenspiel, and Annealed Steel Bells.

"Bil Smith has gone an indebted path, transposing his adamantium vernacular into a melancholic production...hovering between sound and silence, stability and instability. His compositions are apt sonic metaphors of total anonymity albeit with a paradoxical threat of imminent overload"

- Bill Meyer, Noted Music Critic of Gramophone, The Wire and The Guardian

The Recording on Soundcloud:

https://soundcloud.com/bil-smith/it-behaves-like-an-element-in

"Gaddis" for Viola. Bil Smith Composer

"Gaddis"

"Gaddis"

For Viola

Link to PDF Score (Hi-Res)

A Commission from ABB Ltd.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MLS5eqoK2dVEH0CC950qi_2DCvPEpRst/view?usp=sharing

 

"Up The Soft Slope" For Solo Violin

 "Up The Soft Slope"

For Solo Violin

Bil Smith Composer

Commissioned by China Construction Bank

Published by LNM Editions

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ssIvOkN-7KNvBv9D18ZRKUbUTokd1cVv/view?usp=sharing

"Cadmium Plate Riff" For Renee Baker, Viola

"Cadmium Plate Riff"

For Renee Baker, Viola

Link to Score PDF Download:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/107WfzSUyV6nXCooBSrxKqMZyaIwX01iU/view?usp=sharing

Bil Smith Composer

The Score Published on LNM Editions

(Laboratorie New Music)

"Y Combinator" For Solo Viola

"Collagen for Viola"

Link to PDF Hi-Res File

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByXT8veODB_TWTVjaFpYU3VwMms/view?usp=sharing&resourcekey=0-oZlXfsWvvOZJwmf-0XDNsQ

"Modulus". Live recording performed by The Chicago Modern Orchestra Project with Renee Baker Conducting.

"Modulus". 

Live recording performed by The Chicago Modern Orchestra Project with Renee Baker Conducting.

Bil Smith Composer

Listen on SoundCloud:

https://soundcloud.com/bil-smith/modulus-chicago-modern-orchestra-project-performs-september-4-2014-mp3

The Chicago Modern Orchestra Project is an offshoot of the highly successful Mantra Blue Free  Orchestra ©®,both groups directed by Renèe Baker.

While MBFO plays only original compositions by Ms. Baker, involving her own highly developed  “conduction-like” style of directing, the CMOP is dedicated to commissioning, performing and recording contemporary creative and classical music of many new composers.

The mission of the orchestra is to excite and encourage new audiences with their own brand of “out-of-the-box” programming. 

Scores of the unusual and completely innovative and unexpected programming is at the heart of CMOP’s mission.

Original scores are sought from every genre of music, with special emphasis on living composers.

It is one of CMOP’s highest aspirations to present compositions of new emerging composers that perhaps would not appeal to most symphonies.

So, with that in mind, concerts are usually a mixture of large ensemble pieces along with small ensemble delicacies sprinkled in.