"For Fortunato Depero" for Chamber Quintet. Bil Smith Composer.

"For Fortunato Depero"

for Chamber Quintet. Bil Smith Composer. 

Kindly supported by Balenciaga. 

Premiere March 7 Paris, France. 

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Composition, viewed through a certain lens, is a medium of obsolescence... expanding, at times reflexively, its own sense of being outmoded in medium, characterization, or artistic expression.

In the grinding friction between paradigms, however, an unforeseen effect, or evolutionarily untraceable quirk, is sometimes produced: a contorted acceptance of fate, or transcendence of sonic circumstance that is either Zen-like or the acquiescent sign of aural vitality. 

Score Detail

Score Detail

Score Detail

"With Gravity at Gravity's Great Cog" for Six Violins

"With Gravity at Gravity's Great Cog" for Six Violins

Original Recording, March 29, 2013 at Trinity Church, New York, NY.

Bil Smith Composer

Inspiration: Kodály, Feldman, Freeman 

Listen On SoundCloud:

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" Enter the Laboratorie and Press the Emergency Button"

CAR-T 1.1

Planque 4.1

Reference In The Later Sense. Trombone

"Skyere Treace" for Chamber Ensemble.

"Skyere Treace" for Chamber Ensemble.

Bil Smith Composer

2015

Ensemble Chase

Premiere Performance: Whitney Museum of American Art

September 3, 2015

Commission from Battelle Institute 

Stony Brook, NY

"Identical Indented Comments" for Contrabassoon and Soprano Saxophone

"Identical Indented Comments"

 for Contrabassoon and Soprano Saxophone

Bil Smith Composer

A new musical tablature attempting to base a workable theory of aural syntax on concrete tokens.

I have a suggestion to expand the scope of experimental tablatures. Philosophers use a range of tools. To mention just a few, these include logic, probability, game theory, economic modeling as well as computer simulations.

What if, as enlightened composers, we begin using the tools of cognitive science and experimental psychology to examine philosophical music questions. My suggestion with this composition, and moving forward, is to add data science to the catalogue of compositional tools.

-Bil Smith

"Tunnels In The Small Corn". For Flute, Percussion & Piano. The Score

"Tunnels In The Small Corn"

For Flute, Percussion & Piano

Bil Smith Composer

The Score Commissioned By Essilor International

Published by LNM Editions

(Laboratorie New Music)

Prelude to Gyorgy Ligeti's String Quartet No. 1 . To be performed immediately before the performance of the Ligeti Quartet

Picador for Trumpet. A Brief Fanfare

"High & Tight". For Piano.

"Everfolded Proteins"

 

Excerpts from New Work for Violin (Film, Hyper-Notation, Text, Iconology)

Excerpts from New Work for Violin (Film, Hyper-Notation, Text, Iconology)

 

"Beneath A Circus Sky Arrives The Sportive Lensman" for Solo Oboe. Bil Smith Composer.

 

"Beneath A Circus Sky Arrives The Sportive Lensman" for Solo Oboe.  

Bil Smith Composer

Link To Hi-Res PDF:

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