"Hectoring Commentaries" For Solo Viola

"Hectoring Commentaries"

For Solo Viola

Premier Recording by Renee Baker, Esteemed Member of the AACM

"Sensual Perspectivisation... "Laboratorie New Music: Compositeur Abstraite"

Score "Explorer, Producer, Stoic, After Your Fashion".  Pages 38-39.
Pages are sliced in four equal parts representing each of the quartet members.

Laboratorie New Music.

http://www.laboratorienewmusic.com

Listen to the Music Here:

https://soundcloud.com/bil-smith

Score Page from "Thick Channel Black Bourbon" for Solo Voice

New Laboratorie New Music Article on "Medium"

https://medium.com/p/74b32f2dbce3

"Identical Intended Comments" for Contrabassoon and Soprano Saxophone

Explorer, Producer, Stoic, After Your Fashion for String Quartet.
Bil Smith Composer.
Invited Nomination Candidate for the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Music

Colophon (Performance Notes for "Explorer, Producer, Stoic, After Your Fashion"

Score "Explorer, Producer, Stoic, After Your Fashion".  Pages 38-39.
Pages are sliced in four equal parts representing each of the quartet members.

Matrix Plan for Publication.  "Explorer, Producer, Stoic, After Your Fashion"
Acetate Portable Overlay Tablature, 16 Ribbons (15 white, 1 pink)

Circular die cut into score with dice to determine sequence and
timing for each of the 16 sections.  The 16 sections are defined  by the white ribbons.

Score Pages: Explorer, Producer, Stoic, After Your Fashion

Explorer, Producer, Stoic, After Your Fashion

Explorer, Producer, Stoic, After Your Fashion.  Score pages 178-179

Explorer, Producer, Stoic, After Your Fashion.
 Page One of Colophon (Performance Notes)
with inference to Piero Manzoni to the right
(to be interpreted by the quartet with codicological structure

"Apparent Inscience of One Another's Project"
A cartographic circumfluent tablature constructed for two
instruments of converse provenance.

"Mysterious Eroticism of the Multi-Storied Car Park"
A Fanfare for Piccolo Trumpet in 'A'
Bil Smith Composer

"Delista" (Code Name) A new text score under construction
with the assistance of Siyang Lu

"Altoo" for Alto Flute and open for reinterpretation with different titles.  Whitespace.

Score Page (Loose Pages) from "Thick Channel Black Bourbon" for solo soprano

Undone
Scored for Six Isolated Instruments.
"Unlike the geometric eye of rationalized sight, which one can direct and focus at will, the physical eye, as we have seen,  (visual models are far too frequent and integral to permit so easy a dismissal) is one member of the body which does not always obey the will as it continually generates images and opacities on its own."

"Minatory Spectre for Alto Clarinet,  Alto Saxophone and Trombone

"Come Live With Me and Be My Love" 

a Circos Simulacrum of Censorship Project

"Semio": A Reappropriation of Mathias Spahlinger's "128 Erfüllte Augenblicke"  for Voice, Clarinet and Cello. Bil Smith Composer. (Page 99)

"Seamless Opacity In Exchange For The Promise Of Transparency". For String Quartet. PDF Score

"Seamless Opacity In Exchange For The Promise Of Transparency"

For String Quartet

Bil Smith Composer

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByXT8veODB_TaWF3Y3ZXZHVZWjQ/view?usp=sharing

“Enclave of the Curated Pursuit” for Viola, Vibraphone and Flugelhorn

"Enclave of the Curated Pursuit"

for Viola, Vibraphone and Flugelhorn

Bil Smith Composer

2023-2024

Published by LNM Editions

20" X 10"

Link to Full Score PDF

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_zKpm_vXDbR8EOYpPW9ldquPJaQN-vlg/view?usp=sharing

 

"Topped Out" for Guitar, Accordion, Viola and Violin

"Topped Out" 

for Guitar, Accordion, Viola and Violin

Bil Smith Composer

"Topped Out" for Guitar, Accordion, Viola, and Violin was created as a testament to the innovative use of combinatorial scores. This piece integrates traditional notational elements with a contrastive lexical system.

The foundational premise of this combinatorial score is its employment of a lexical system that operates in an essentially relational manner. Unlike traditional scores, where notation might serve as a direct instruction for performance, the lexical units in "Topped Out" are defined primarily by their interconnected relationships. These relationships are both paradigmatic, concerning the selection of alternatives based on similarity or dissimilarity, and syntagmatic, pertaining to the combination of units in linear sequences. It is through these networks of relationships that the piece articulates the performers' musical and expressive content.

Drawing from the principles of Meaning-Text theory, the score's lexical system can be likened to a graph or a "social network of lexical units," akin to the structures observed within small world networks. This analogy highlights the non-hierarchical, interconnected nature of the system. Each lexical unit coupled with notational devices, gains significance not in isolation but through its connections to other units within the network. This model is radically distinct from taxonomic approaches to lexicon organization, which traditionally classify lexical units into hierarchical structures.

Performers are required to navigate a score that functions more as a map of relationships and possibilities than a set of prescriptive instructions.