"Togus" for Two Sopranos and Mezzo Soprano

"Togus" 

for Two Sopranos and Mezzo Soprano

Bil Smith Composer

Commissioned by Harrison Hayes, LLC

"Pampered Children of the Estate" for Bass Flute

"Pampered Children of the Estate"

for Bass Flute

Bil Smith Composer

Published by LNM Editions

Link to Full Score (PDF)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eBhnEAX7P942j4XTHPjWZyMFMnshyIOg/view?usp=sharing

"Arbitrate Voss" for Bass Flute. Bil Smith Composer

 

"An Approach to Standardizing Pedagogy for Extended Techniques on Tuba" by Sean Kennedy

"An Approach to Standardizing Pedagogy for Extended Techniques on Tuba" 

By Sean M. Kennedy

 A Document In Tuba Performance 

https://ttu-ir.tdl.org/ttu-ir/bitstream/handle/2346/68081/KENNEDY-PROJECTPROGRAMS-DMA-2016.pdf?sequence=1

ABSTRACT by Sean Kennedy :

The purpose of this document is to examine and attempt to standardize a pedagogical method for extended techniques for the tuba. This document will pull from various source materials including repertoire for the tuba and an examination of various documents on extended techniques for other instruments. 

This document will include common existing extended techniques for the tuba and will attempt to introduce new extended techniques that can be adapted for the tuba. Each technique will be described from a proposed sound concept. Notational examples from the repertoire will be included to aid in understanding the function of the sound concept. 

"Cadmium Plate Riff" For Renee Baker, Viola

"Cadmium Plate Riff"

For Renee Baker, Viola

Link to Score PDF Download:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/107WfzSUyV6nXCooBSrxKqMZyaIwX01iU/view?usp=sharing

Bil Smith Composer

The Score Published on LNM Editions

(Laboratorie New Music)

Essentially, Music is a Contract...A Form of Legislation.

"Essentially, music is a contract...a form of legislation. For any form of notation to be effective, there must be an agreed set of components or elements." 

"Small can be complex:

Consciousness is valuable to us. Indeed, it is arguably the most valuable thing of all: it is what allows us to enjoy our interactions with the world, and it is what confers moral status upon us.

If consciousness was not preserved by the mind-uploading process, it is difficult to see why we would care. So consciousness is a necessary condition for a valuable form of mind-uploading. That does not, however, make it a sufficient condition.

So is the "Irrational Enterprise" a real compositional idealism?"

Polysemy, Aporia, Irony and Indeterminacy

Polysemy, Aporia, Irony and Indeterminacy

Polysemy connotes a multiplicity of meanings in a given compositional notation referring at once to multiple contexts for interpretation. Perhaps the most inclusive category of its kind, polysemy indicates the coincidence of multiple and sometimes contradictory meanings under the same notation, as opposed to irony, a discrepancy between two meanings or interpretations; aporia, a logical impasse; or indeterminacy, an indecision with regard to meaning.

There are two fundamental paradigms by which one can think about the occurrence of polysemy in musical composition; referential and differential.

The referential paradigm assumes that notation has the basic function of referentiality, i.e., it points to things that exist outside it; accordingly, polysemy would be understood as a trait of certain notational passages in which signs do not function ordinarily (having one or two referents at most) but bear multiple relational associations, so that such a notational passage becomes a reverberating echo chamber of meanings.

Nevertheless, these intricate webs of meanings and associations do not occur spontaneously but are aligned along the same axis of symbolical associations. A sign in a given polysemous composition will bear multiple relational meanings, while certain unassociated meanings will remain excluded from consideration.

Even though each signifier will have more than two signifieds, polysemy under the referential paradigm will always remain a polysemy of controlled meanings— confined, as it were, to the rule of association.

PDF Link to Full Score: "A Sullen And Truculent Citizen." For Chamber Orchestra.

"A Sullen And Truculent Citizen."  

For Chamber Orchestra 

Bil Smith Composer

Commissioned by Banca MPS

The Complete Score: PDF (113 pages)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5lqYq0XwE76eFR5c0FZRkZIejQ/view?usp=sharing

"Dying Lords" for Alto Flute and Flugelhorn. The Complete Score

"Dying Lords" 

For Alto Flute and Flugelhorn.  

The Complete Score

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5lqYq0XwE76Zy02UFFZdFFpbDA/view?usp=sharinghttps://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5lqYq0XwE76Zy02UFFZdFFpbDA/view?usp=sharing

Commissioned by Alitalia

Premiere: Modena, Italy, September

"Dying Lords" Cover on Magnetic Silver Translucent Photofilm.  

"The Pinnacle of Trust" for Piano. Bil Smith Composer. 2022

Link To PDF (Hi-Res)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tDy-f4lAs_WVa1TJHb1D0q4GykYu92Gq/view?usp=sharing

 

Resisting Radical Score Experimentation is...

My experiment here claims to come at realism dialectically, not only by taking as it's objects of study the very antinomies themselves into which every constitution of this or that realism seems to resolve. Canonical and just plain revivalist. 

“As a Pygoamorphus Twitch; Listen To Jeremy’s Breathing: I am inclined to Create a Manic State of Futility” Bil Smith Composer.

(WARNING: Processed on equipment shared with peanuts, tree space nuts, dairy products, soy and wheat)

Caution, remove shell before consuming.

CODE 049022 56571 5 — with Laboratorie NewMusic in Düsseldorf, Germany.

“He Uttered Many A Melancholy Jest Of This Character”. The Score. For Flute, Cello and Double Bass

“He Uttered Many A Melancholy Jest Of This Character”

For Flute, Cello and Double Bass

Bil Smith Composer

2016

A Commission from Makita Corporation

Link To Pdf Score:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByXT8veODB_TbGQ3NnViUUNkZzA/view?usp=sharing