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My work
is concerned with the creation of atmosphere rather than of
form, melody or rhythm, of creating an environment through
subtle and harmonious changes rather than through force.
Thisco
A track of mine has
just been released on the Thisco label in Portugal
Listening
Shell
A piece of mine "A
Memory Of Childhood" is
currently playing at The Victoria And Albert Museum in
London as part of the Listening Shell exhibition
www.myspace.com/listeningshell
Live
Dates
I am currently
playing live with Belle Atmos and Map 165.
Details at
www.belleatmos.com/live and
www.map165.martinasmith.co.uk
Surrealism On Film
I have recently become entranced by the surrealist films of
Man Ray, Fernand Leger and others from the 1920’s and have
been composing new soundtracks to accompany these films in a
live performance.
The performance consists of video projection and laptop
sound manipulation.
Examples from the set can be found
here
In Transit
I am involved in two projects commissioned by The Royal
Borough Of Kensington And Chelsea
as part of the In Transit Festival
9 June
Sonic Walk
An installation of field recordings curated by Martin A
Smith
featuring a performance at 7pm at The Muse Gallery by
Kailas Elmer
Bridge Fazio
Paul Da Costa
Alex May
11 June
Haunted Walk through Holland Park
A video and sound installation created by
Alex May - video design
Martin A Smith - sound design
Kailas Elmer - sound design
The
Authorities Are Always Right
I have written the soundtrack for a documentary written and
directed by Sapna Ramnani
www.sapnaramnani.com
Bend It Like
Beckett
Two pieces of mine appear on the "Bend It Like Beckett"
CD. A compilation to celebrate Beckett's centenary.
www.arttrail.ie
Late Junction
My work was recently featured on Late Junction on BBC
Radio 3
Late Junction
Scene One: A
Field
An
album of landscape-tones. Steep skylines, low cloud, pearl
ground with shadows in oyster and violet, green folds and
corners, waves of soil. The day melts copper into the hills,
lilac sky, eyes close with the heat. Air is thickened and
clouds stained. Long shore drift, ships rusting at harbour,
shadows that sound and swollen bruise greys.
This album is now available to download
here
The Joining Of
Heaven And Earth Live Performances
I gave two performances of "The Joining Of Heaven And
Earth" at The Gate Cinema, Notting Hill Gate on the 19
April and at The Ritzy, Brixton on the 22 April playing on the same bill as
Biosphere
Sound @ The
Muse
I
curate, facilitate
and collate regular evenings of soundscapes, improvisation and
sonic art at The Muse Gallery in Notting Hill, London. For
further details please click
here
www.themuseat269.com
Classic FM
My work is being played on The Chiller Cabinet by Ben Eshmade
www.myspace.com/djbeneshmade
Don't Magazine
I am Audio Director for the online magazine
"Don't"
www.dontmagazine.com
The Joining Of
Heaven And Earth
A beautiful series of short films and documentaries written
and directed by Georges Meisner for which I am writing the
score. "The Joining Of Heaven And Earth" follows the
pilgrims trail through France and Spain to Santiago De
Compostela. Each film focuses on a particular shrine and the
Romanesque statues found there. To see examples please click
here
Labyrinth Of
Nomadic Passions
Contemporary ambient
storytelling
working with Igor Tojcic.
The creation of stories, allusions and atmospheres using
voice, music, film, writing, dance, painting and other forms
of communication.
The stories are told in
various languages and by musicians and artists from around the
world.
“Labyrinth Of Nomadic Passions” is a project that brings
traditional storytelling into the 21st Century. By employing
modern media methods stories are created by a variety of
musicians, writers and artists and are intended for recorded,
film, printed and live performance.
There are plans for:
CD and DVD releases
An interactive website where writers can add their own stories
Film and video makers to interpret and illustrate the stories
for live performance and commercial release
Books of photographs and paintings to complement the stories
By working with artists from around the world working in a
variety of media and each having a unique voice “Labyrinth
Of Nomadic Passions” is a truly cross-cultural,
multi-disciplinary,
world project.
www.nomadicpassions.co.uk
www.myspace.com/labyrinthofnomadicpassions
Belle Atmos
A project I am working on with Kailas Elmer and Alex May
Post-apocalyptic noir soundtrack jazz. Imagine pop rivets in a
willow pattern soup tureen, a New York license plate washed up
in the Burmese delta, Charlie Parker as a short order chef in
an Alice Springs service station, lizards on a dead farmhand,
and waiting in line behind a Belgian social worker reading
Bukowski.
You can hear Belle Atmos at
www.myspace.com/belleatmos
Kailas Elmer
http://www.myspace.com/chakrasamvara
Road To
Acceptance
A sound installation created by myself and Igor Tojcic for
"The Art Of Memory" exhibition at The British
Council. To read more about the exhibition and to listen to
"Road To Acceptance" click on
www.counterpoint-online.org
The face of Despair
My photo was used for the cover of "Despair" by
Vladimir Nabokov, published by Penguin Classics
Anne Windsor
I have written the music for two exhibitions
"Scratch" and "In Mind" by the
painter Anne Windsor
To read a review at Fringe Report please click
here
www.annewindsor.co.uk
Elizabeth Emanuel
I have written the score for an installation called
"Evolution" by the fashion
designer Elizabeth Emanuel
www.elizabethemanuel.com
Cinnamon
Heathcote-Drury
I have created a sound design for an exhibition by the
photographer Cinnamon Heathcote-Drury
Elvan Erdan
I have written the music for an exhibition of paintings by
Elvan Erdan
Spring
Goeth All In White
A sound installation at The English Folk Dance And Song
Society.
www.efdss.org
Luminal
Music and the sound design for “Luminal”, a British,
Italian, French feature film and winner of Best Film at the
Rome Film Festival working with Simeon Warburton and Michael
Nyman
The
Vampire Killers
Score for a documentary for Channel 5
Dark
Lady
Music and sound design for “Dark Lady” at The Theatre Of
All Possibilities at the October Gallery
401
Pieces
The sound design for “401 Pieces” for Stacked Wonky Dance
Company, a contemporary dance piece performed in the furniture
store Purves and Purves on Tottenham Court Road.
Zeppelin
2004
My work was part of a sound art exhibition at the Centre de
Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona
ocaos.cccb.org/zeppelin2004
Happy
Families
An art exhibition held in an apartment in West London
Outsize
An exhibition at The Museum Of Domestic Design And
Architecture
Cinetrip
A video exhibition in Budapest working with VJ Denny Ellis
(winner of Best VJ at the Diesel U Music Awards 2004)
www.coresnfx.com
www.cinetrip.hu
Alana
Pryce
I have written music and performed live with the poet Alana
Pryce
www.alanapryce.co.uk
Mutiny
A
performance at The Bargehouse on London’s South Bank in a
show called “Mutiny” run by Lostproperty Art, a show
involving over one hundred artists working in all creative
fields
Other
Other
commissions have included work for BskyB, Aphletic (winner of
Best Urban Music at the Diesel U Music Awards 2004), Giant
Productions, Reactor Films, Ridley Scott Associates and Ion 2
at the Red Gate Gallery
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