"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

"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.

"Surfaces For Inscription". For String Quartet. The Full PDF Score

"Surfaces For Inscription"

 For String Quartet

Bil Smith Composer

A Commission from Royal Mail PLC

Published on LNM Editions

Link To The Full PDF Score

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZrnuLR-loZdBMC-RrO9gv4Gg7p15w6MZ/view?usp=sharing

In the exploration of "Surfaces For Inscription" for String Quartet, crafted with a paratonal notation system, the performers delve into the intricate play between power, knowledge, and the aesthetics of musical discourse. This piece, a convergence of symbols and sounds, becomes a fertile ground for the analysis of how musical texts govern the practices of interpretation and performance, shaping the very ontology of music itself.

The notation system, with its diminutive inscriptions, surrenders to the minuscule, thereby challenging our habitual desire to apprehend the work in its entirety. This act of reading, an exercise in disciplinary power, constrains the quartet within a framework of detailed scrutiny that paradoxically limits the comprehension of the piece's holistic essence.

This limitation is not a mere oversight but a deliberate strategy that engages the performer and the audience in a complex play of visibility and invisibility. By necessitating a choice between the granular and the gestalt, the notation system enacts a form of control, directing the attention and thereby the interpretative practices of its beholders. It becomes a panopticon of sorts, where the observed - the notation - exerts a reverse surveillance, dictating the terms of its own visibility.

The banishment of quasi-atmospheric modulations, produced by the abundance of vertical runoffs, represents not merely a technical innovation but a radical reconfiguration of the musical landscape. These vertical runoffs, rather than arresting the motion of the notation, magnify the dynamism inherent in the paratonal system. This is a metaphor for the relation between power and resistance, where the apparent constraints of the notation system serve not to freeze but to catalyze the gestural potential of the music.

The thick pools of notation, corresponding point by point to the musical structure, create a discursive field where meanings are constructed, deconstructed, and reconstructed, always within the bounds of the system's logic.

"Chartered Science" for Violin

"Unchartered Science" for Violin

Technical Exercise for Violin or Viola, Bil Smith Composer

Technical Exercise for Violin or Viola.

Bil Smith Composer

An Elemental Study

A Request from Jay Pulliam and Supported by the Pulliam Foundation

A Reformulation of Brian Ferneyhough's String Quartet Number Six (excerpt)

A Reformulation of Brian Ferneyhough's String Quartet Number Six 

(excerpts)

Bil Smith: Reformulator

"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