Genesis of Radical New Notational Archetypes: Combinatorial Composition

"Capitulated Fantasy". For Echo Cornet

"Velocity Infuses Beryllium Plated Monsters Whose Rivets and Scales Shimmer". The Score

"Velocity Infuses Beryllium Plated Monsters Whose Rivets and Scales Shimmer"

For Septet.

Bil Smith Composer

2009, 2011, 2015

A Dedication to Renee Baker and Claes Oldenburg

Commissioned by Itochu.

Disruptive Compositional Elements

The Lab Report. From Laboratorie New Music

Etude for Flute. Larah Barr Composer

For Oboe

"This Poise, A Gently Ironic Grace On Him That His Dad Had Never Had". Larah Barr Composer

"This Poise, A Gently Ironic Grace On Him That His Dad Had Never Had".  

Larah Barr Composer

For Supple and Reliant Ensemble of Infidels

2016

RECORDING: "An Edible Sea Urchin Named Ulysses"

"An Edible Sea Urchin Named Ulysses" 

for 2.5 String Quartets and Sonic Physibles

Recorded at Paolo Soleri’s Arcosanti, Arizona, USA. 

Bil Smith Composer

Listen On SoundCloud

https://soundcloud.com/bil-smith/an-edible-sea-urchin-named

Recording: The Extended Orchestra

On SoundCloud:

https://soundcloud.com/bil-smith/testent-for-extended-orchestra

Extended Orchestra refers to an expansion of instrumentation beyond the traditional orchestral modicum. In this piece it involves adding a prescribed number (in this performance 18) of non-traditional orchestral instruments. While the score for the instruments is carefully notated, the instrument selection is left up to the key stakeholders of the performance.

“Form and referent coincide, and response rarely goes beyond the initial frisson. In creating a score of this magnitude, it is not the immediate, visceral reaction but the critical reception, the work’s potential to generate independent thinking, that matters.

To Infinity and Beyond: A Reflection on Notation, 1980s Darmstadt, and Interpretational Approaches to the Music of New Complexity by Stuart Paul Duncan

Excerpt from Brian Ferneyhough





To Infinity and Beyond: A Reflection on Notation, 1980s Darmstadt, and Interpretational Approaches to the Music of New Complexity

by Stuart Paul Duncan

Link:http://www.searchnewmusic.org/duncan.pdf

"Staged Involuntary Limbic Experiments" . The Recording.

"Staged Involuntary Limbic Experiments" 

for Two String Quartets 

(2012-2013) 

Bil Smith Composer

This performance made possible with the generous assistance of Etisalat

Recording available for a limited time on Soundcloud:

https://soundcloud.com/bil-smith/staged-involuntary-limbic