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“Eseltelle Genève” for 2 Orchestras. Bil Smith Composer. Recording on Laboratorie New Music Label: Comment by Bansky
Bil Smith Composer
Commissioned by Boston Scientific and RyanAir. RECORDING on SoundCloud:
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“Eseltelle Genève” for 2 Orchestras: setting for Orchestra II. Bodø, Norway |
In this work the reduced orchestral landscapes demand the large ensembles (Orchestras) to achieve a result that lies at the higher end of acoustical preoccupation. As I am a ‘soundcologist’ surrounded in an environment that is constantly accelerating in a perception of time, I advocate pausation…in the emptiness and silence we encounter ourselves …an absence of sound, and thought.
The concept of "universal music’ (aka: 'Love) is banal” and the only proper attitude towards the world of sonic phonomorphisis is hatred or
apathy. In a previous essay, I suggested a kind of radical
violence, which cuts universally, is necessary to break through the false sense
of universal music, of vacuous tolerance that dominates current discourse.
The response to this tolerant and
empty form of universal music should not be an ethical violence, but more music.
The sentimentality of a kind of ethical music
takes the form of a superegoic demand of the fetishist universe of composers. ‘Love every music!’
"Bil Smith's critics—and there are many of them—have accused the master of deliberate obscurantism and misinterpretation of his sources—if not outright leg-pulling."
- Banksy
"Bil Smith's critics—and there are many of them—have accused the master of deliberate obscurantism and misinterpretation of his sources—if not outright leg-pulling."
- Banksy
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"Fundamental Overture" and Performativity
"Fundamental Overture"
Bil Smith Composer
Performativity is the hallmark of thinking in accordance with immanence.
Agree?: {Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof}
It provides the criterion for an important contrast between the self sufficient or musical practice of composition and its empirical activity whose claim to theoretical legitimacy is only ever assured through its performance.
{I know that I'm carrying on, never mind if I'm showing off...I was just frontin'}.
It may be that this Fundamental Overture's crisp, sharply delineated mode of abstraction turns out to be far more concrete than those nebulous abstractions which composers try to pass off as instances of concretion.
Agree?: {Clap along if you feel like that's what you wanna do }
In other words, the criteria for evaluating the worth of 'Non-Compositional' function are not available to composers, who know not what they do.
In 'Non-Composition', radical axiomatic abstraction gives rise, not to a system or doctrine inviting assent or dissent, but to an immanent methodology whose function for music no one is in a position to evaluate as yet.
{Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth}
Ultimately, then, 'Non-Composition' can only be gauged in terms of what it can do.
And no one yet knows what 'Non-Composition' can or cannot do.
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Sunday, November 12, 2017
"His Sacral Entertainments". Score For Piano, Bass Clarinet and Bass Flute
"His Sacral Entertainments".
Score For Piano, Bass Clarinet and Bass Flute
2016
Bil Smith
Commissioned by Kirin Holdings
Saturday, November 4, 2017
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