RECORDING: "Similar Monomania" with the support of Nicolas Ghesquière and Balenciaga

"Similar Monomania" For Orchestra and Seven Pianos (2012). 

Bil Smith Composer

Supported by a contribution from Balenciaga and Chief Creative Director Nicolas 

Ghesquière.

LISTEN on Sound Cloud:

https://soundcloud.com/bil-smith/similar-monomania-for

"Remarkably comfortable with causation, he seems to be moving through some ritual process that explodes into life threatening chaos at any moment. It's tempting to talk about shamanic journeys. The absence of a prevailing stylistic orthodoxy is striking"

- Clive Bell on Bil Smith's "Similar Monomania" for Wire

Some of You Have Wondered if My Statements of Compositional Awesomeness was Meant as a Joke.

Some of you have wondered if my statements of compositional awesomeness was meant as a joke. 

Am I trying to be funny? 

Am I making some sort of statement on the nature of modern celebrity? 

Am I a musical iconoclast, gleefully destroying the sanctity of composition? 

What in the world am I doing! 

Here is a tip: 

The way to know if someone on the Internet is being funny is to look for the smiley face emoticons. Do you see any smiley face emoticons? 

No, you don’t. Pretentious postmodern narcissists never joke.

Wolfgang Rihm. Jagden and Formen

Wolfgang Rihm

Jagden and Formen

The Score (PDF)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5lqYq0XwE76TkIxSXVDQ3htazg/view?usp=sharing

The Late Bob Gilmore's Insightful Interview with Horatiu Radulescu

Horatiu Radulescu: Wild Ocean Interview 
interviewed by Bob Gilmore

www.scribd.com

This text is based on an interview with Radulescu recorde...

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