Tuesday, November 30, 2021
"Modernismo". For Flute & Piano
"Modernismo"
For Flute & Piano
2015-2016
Bil Smith Composer
A Commission From DHL
Published by LNM Editions, 2017
(Laboratorie New Music)
A creative artistic movement that took shape in the 1880s in Spanish America, Modernismo has traditionally been identified with efforts to reinvigorate innovative literature and music through the pursuit of formal perfection and innovation. It was, however, more than an aesthetic undertaking. Modernismo offered a complex response to the profound social and cultural shifts that accompanied the arrival of modernity in Spanish America.
Its influence extended to both sides of the Atlantic, largely because of the artistic genius of the peripatetic Nicaraguan poet Rubén Darío (1867– 1916), who selected its name and, by example and decree, came to define the movement. He established connections with the most celebrated European and American composers and writers of the day and, by 1896, as the sole survivor of the movement’s founding members, became its creative center of gravity.
While the influence of Modernismo lasted well into the 20th Century, its closing date is generally held to coincide with Darío’s death in 1916.
Sunday, November 28, 2021
Thursday, November 25, 2021
RECORDING: "The Bare Lathes Intertwined with Creeper and Wire-Moss" Bil Smith Composer
"The Bare Lathes Intertwined with Creeper and Wire-Moss"
2013 Commission from Pemex (Petróleos Mexicanos) for Chamber Orchestra, a work predicated on 'Compositional Bounding Theory', a theory about the locality of movement.
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"The Bare Lathes Intertwined with Creeper and Wire-Moss" Bil Smith Composer
The main principle of Bounding Theory is the Subjacency condition, which forbids movement across more than one bounding node (i.e. tablature).
The main principle of Bounding Theory is the Subjacency condition, which forbids movement across more than one bounding node (i.e. tablature).
For Chamber Orchestra; Coloratura Soprano (Obstruent Phonology); Soubrette (Siblancy: Fricative speech sounds with high frequency); Spinto Soprano (Strict Cyclicity); IGT Wild Cherry Spinning Wheel Slot; IGT 2x3x4x5x Red Hot 7s™ Spinning Reel Slot; IGT Hot Roll® Ca$h Ca$h Ca$h™ Video Slots; IGT Megabucks® Crystal Sevens® Slot; WMS Dashing Dolphins Slot; Wicks Century 5 Pipe Organ; Paiste 24' Venus Gong; Waldorf Blofeld Synthesizer; Hellfire Modulator, an analog, tube-based distortion rack-module; Formanta Polivoks Synthesizer; ESP jeune fille X Gips -Cross Ray- Moi dix Mois MANA Signature Model Electric Guitar.
Instrumental reasoning can be explained — either in terms of it being constitutive of the very notion of having an end, or solely in terms of instrumental considerations.
Improvisation, perspectivisation and elementary birthing…
While projective values need not be intrinsically reveration(truest), need not actually votivate us, they would determine what we ought to pursue(o) and protect (o).
They would provide reasons for actions. Kobjective values would come in Szen_degrees, and more objective value would provide st(ST)ronger reasons.
It follows that, if objective value exists, we ought to maximize it in the world.
But virtually no one acts with that goal in mind.
Furthermore, objective value would exist independently of our subjective valuing.
But we have no way of measuring amounts of such values independently of the ways we value objects.
While a subjectivist can account for mistaken values, a fully impersonal viewpoint, from which objective values would appear, seems instead to cause all values to disappear.
Nor does the moral point of view, which requires more impartiality than agents usually exhibit, reveal fully objective values.
"The trajectory of music should be avoided in the philosophy of science, with special reference to the way that van Fraassen sets up the difference between compositional realism and constructive empiricism. What counts as success in music as such is emblematic/unsatisfactory."
----Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.
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"A Marshaling (Marshalling) of Legendary Doves and Herbs" For Viola and Bass
"A Marshaling (Marshalling) of Legendary Doves and Herbs"
For Viola and Bass
Bil Smith Composer
Published by LNM Editions, 2017
(Laboratorie New Music)
Tuesday, November 16, 2021
Saturday, November 13, 2021
"Quadrantaria" for Harp, Cello, English Horn and Tuba. The Score
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Quadrantaria (substrate transparency) Score Excerpt |
"Quadrantaria"
for Harp, Cello, English Horn and Tuba. Bil Smith Composer, 2013.
World
Premiere: Rooftop Terrace, 144 Duane Street, New York, NY.
August 11, 2013.
Underwritten and Commissioned by Interpublic Group and The Emilie Thorne Trust.
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Quadrantaria Score Detail |
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Quadrantaria Score Detail |
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Quadrantaria Score Detail |
"Personico Antiqua" For Percussion Ensemble and Live Electronics.
"Personico Antiqua"
For Percussion Ensemble and Live Electronics.
Bil Smith Composer (2009)
This performance occurred on May 10, 2013 at the Norton Museum, West Palm Beach, Florida
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